Lace Pickups Alumitone Deathbucker 5.4K CH

Mehr durch Zufall bin ich auf diese Pickups gestoßen.
Verbaut habe ich diesen Tonabnehmer in 2 Gitarren unterschiedlicher Preisklasse jeweils in der Stegposition. In einer Harley Benton und in einer Epiphone Les Paul Standard Florentine Pro.
Pro:
- einfach Einbau
- Attack -> Der Sound ist sofort da. Passive Pickups können dagegen träge wirken
- lässt sich gut kombinieren (mit Alumitone, SD 59/Custom)
- Mit 250k Poti leicht abgerundeter Sound
- Nimmt Pedale und Verstärker (Röhre, Hybrid, Transistor) meiner Meinung nach gut an
Con:
- Kein Vintage Sound. Eher klinisch/steril/aufdringlich
- Mit 500k Poti doch sehr aggressiv vom Klang
- Nicht unbedingt für Jazz oder als Hintergrund-Begleitung geeignet
Fazit:
Ich liebe den Sound. Egal ob Metal, Rock, Blues oder Ambient.
Der Ton will gehört werden. Der Sound ist nichts für den "Hintergrund". Wer Vintage sucht, sollte sich woanders umsehen.
Auch in Halbakkustischen Gitarren macht der Klang eine gute Figur. Zu meinem Equipment und meiner Spielweise passt der Pickup sehr gut. Ich werde wohl noch ein paar davon besorgen müssen ;)

Bought two deathbuckers for neck and bridge. I didn't want alumitone humbucker in neck because it is "voiced for the classic mid range response humbucker tone" (from official description).
My first and biggest complain is informing. Nothing states that it has very powerful magnets that will ruin your sustain and some high fret notes from about 10-12th fret and higher if installed in neck position. It will have big volume drop relative to bridge if lowered enough to not interfere with sustain.
Second thing that annoyed me is the design flaw: high e note has noticeable volume drop doesn't matter in neck or bridge position or pickup distance from strings. I think it is because outside strings get less magnetic field but it's not noticeable for low e string (may be it has something to do with string thickness or I didn't care to do more tests because of frustration). Worst scenario is clean sound when you get that bell like sound from 3rd and 2nd string and don't get it from 1st string in addition to volume drop. Changing string gauge from 9 to 10 didn't help.
Quality wise it could be done better or more carefully for that price. Especially if you account for very simplistic pickup structure. But it's minor.
From sound perspective bridge pickup is cool if you don't play on high e string or mainly play high gain music.
One curious observation. It has audible power transformer like buzz at high gain in humbucker mode and does NOT in split mode. Both of humbuckers. Nothing scary but it's interesting.
I will definitely sell one of the deathbuckers and haven't figured out what to do with the other.