Alumitone's Secret

I've wanted to attach a video on my previous post but decided that it would be better to make a new post instead. Many people pay very little attention to Lace Sensor pickup. So I thought it would be nice to share the little knowledge I have for Lace.
The video below will show you the differences between a normal humbucker and a alumitone. You can now picture what I mean by Alumitone being 'coil-less' through this.

Swarovski + pickup?

This is the 2nd post that mention Swarovski. The 1st post was on Orianthi's MJ (click to read more)
The equation this time would be...

+

and you get

Blingbucker (what an awkward name)

These lace sensor pickups are basically Alumitone pickups, Deathbucker to be exact, studded with Swarovski crystal. Don Lace first introduced them to the world at Winter NAMM 2011.

Lace Music's main focus on producing their pickups is to be 'noiseless', which would be a great help for recording. Alumitone is one of such innovations. (This was the  What makes Alumitone pickup unique compared to other pickups is... they are 'coil-less'. Yes, they do not have copper wire wounded around it.  

More pictures of our Bling friends:

Take a look at this Dog-ear style pickup. What is the difference between with the usual P90? 

Lace's P90 is created using the Alumitone technology, rather than the usual pickup technology. So why are there poles in the pickups? Actually the 'poles' on the pickups are Swarovski crystals.

I'm not a bling-inclined person. In fact, I find them excessive. 

SV Guitars is the distributor for Lace Sensor Products.

Seymour Duncan

These are the few new stuffs for Seymour Duncan in 2011. It is already near mid-year of 2011. I wonder why it takes so long for Seymour Duncan to post this up.

1. YJM High-Speed Volume Pot
2. Blackouts Modular Preamp << this is intriguing.
3. Antiquity Gold Humbuckers
4. Seymour Duncan Zephyr Silver Pickups

5. Custom Shop JB/Jazz Concept Set

6. Liberator™

7. 35th Anniversary Commemorative JB/Jazz™ Set

8. '53 Tapped Tele^® Model T "Guitar Shop" Set

Click on the links to learn more about them!

Piezo?

Take a look at this guitar.

If you don't do a thorough study of the guitar, you might just think, 'Oh, it's just another strat.' For those who are much sharper, you might have notice a toggle switch in place of a 'Tone' knob in a Fender. A kill-switch? Nope.

This is a Piezo toggle switch.

I first saw this guitar in the Swing's brochure. I was intrigued when I see that Swing Prism 250  is equipped with a Piezo and that it is an alder body. (YES~~!! Alder FTW) So I headed down to City Hall yesterday to try it out.

Piezo bridge is actually an active pickup at the bridge which has a very special role; to boost an acoustic sound. Why active? It runs on a 9v battery like all active pickups do. Piezo does its job rather well. I am amazed at the acoustic sound. While I would like the usual clean tone of pickups, Piezo does provide me with another alternative of 'clean' acoustic tone. Most of the songs I play consist of acoustic (not clean guitar) then followed by distortion. An example of such song? Take this as an example.

Alder is a wood which has very bright clean tone. This characteristic has boosted the function of Piezo even more. Of course, it still will sound different from a Martin, but if any of you want an simple acoustic guitar together with the electric, Piezo is for you. I'm not sure what pickups are in there but I think it is a Swing Heartbreaker at the bridge and the Bluesbreaker for neck and middle pickups.

Take note that while the Piezo is activated, the pickups on the guitar is not in function. So the toggle switch is a switch between the normal pickups and Piezo.

Now you don't need to switch guitars when you wish to play some rock when you are previously playing some acoustics!

Physics I

Well, this may be a very lame post. =x but since i got nothing to say and I've got a physics paper coming up tomorrow, I could share some of the physics of guitar. A friend of mine also asked me the same question. Good that I hadn't forgotten my O lvl physics. Sry if i m talking about Physics, but it is just amazing =P

A pickup is made up of a permanent magnet and a coil of copper strings or a solenoid in Physics term. Alnico (alloy of aluminium, nickel and iron) or Ceramic (ferrite) is used for the perrmanent magnet.
                            
The use of the permanent magnet is to magnetise the guitar strings, which is also made of magnetic material, into temporary magnet. As we strum the guitar strings, the now-magnetised guitar strings will vibrate and this vibration will form an induced current in the solenoid. (refer to Physics textbook for answer of why =P). This induced current will go to the amplifier which will then amplify the current and transform it from electrical energy into sound energy. Thus, your guitar produces sound. After all, everything you do in your life is all Physics. Name it, walking, eating, and even playing guitar xD.