Lace Sensor Gold Loaded Pickguard – white. The Lace Sensor Gold Loaded Pickguard – white. Crisp top end and bell-like tone, the Lace Sensor GoldT utilizes the latest technology to provide excellent tone for today’s players. Lace Loaded Pickguards are pre-wired with quality components all on a 3-ply pickguard. Includes knobs and switch knob. Designed to drop-in to your Strat® and connect with only 2. For custom colors and combinations. 3 ply Pickguard in Black or White. Attention to detail in wiring. Drop-in installation – 2 wire hookup. Lace Sensor-Gold: A classic 50’s Style single coil sound with a classy bell tone. Position: neck, mid, bridge. Inductance: 2.4 henries. The Lace Sensor® family has a unique radiant Field Barrier system that surrounds both the coil and magnets, reducing annoying 60-cycle hum. The patented Lace Micro Combs® replace traditional bobbins, yielding a wider tonal range and better string balance than traditional pickups. Unlike ordinary pickups, Lace Sensors generate 36 separate magnetic “sensing” fields which, in the areas where they contact the string, “read” the strings’ vibration. (Regular pickups only generate anywhere from 4 to 12 fields). Lace Sensors also have Radiant Field Barriers: metal slides which frame the inner core of the Sensors and perform two function. The first is to shield the Sensor from the outside noise and 60 cycle hum. The second is to produce a broader yet more concentrated umbrellas of sensing field that standard magnetic pickups. Less Noise, More Harmonics As compared to standard pickups, sensors read a greater physical area of the string, while picking up less outside interference. This makes the signal-to-noise ratio nothing short of phenomenal for a single coil system. Also, a wider range of harmonic content is read by the Sensor, delivering a more complex tonal response. Increased Sustain, Truer Pitch Since they operate so efficiently, Lace Sensors can utilize the much lower energy magnets than ordinary pickups, and this in turn bring about a whole new realm of properties. In regular pickups, the magnetic fields are so strong they physically dampen, or drag on, the strings’ vibration, reducing sustain and actually changing the pitch. But in Lace Sensor, string dampening is virtually nonexistent. This means your sustain is increased dramatically while the string holds its true pitch for the duration of the note.