The fine folks at Lace Sensor Corp. sent us a Lace Huntington Guitar loaded with a veritable Whitman's sampler of premium pickups: a Lace Sensor Holy Grail in the neck, a Lace Sensor Hot Gold in the middle position, and a Lace Alumitone Deathbucker in the bridge. All three are sound-checked in this video demo, and the two "Sensor" pickups are compared to our house Strat's standard-issue Tex-Mex single coils. You'll be able to compare self-noise and determine if the Laces' tone's are sacrificed in the name of zero-hum (we don't think so).

A little technical background not covered in the video: instead of relying on dummy coils like other noiseless single-coils, Lace Sensor pickups utilize something called Radiant Field Barriers, which they describe as "metal slides which frame the inner core of the Sensors and. . . shield the Sensor from outside noise and 60-cycle hum. . . [and] produce a broader, yet more concentrated umbrella of a sensing field than that of standard magnetic pickups." Watch the video to hear what this Greek translates into sonically.