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Three Langcaster Lo-impedance hand made pickups. Three pots for Volume, Tone and Overdrive gain. Five way Switch, Jack output, PCB Board, Toggle Switch for on/off Overdrive, Battery clip and Pickguard. Entire kit is pre-wired! Screws and Jack plate + Battery. |
We do suppluy standard a Fender size pick guard with or witout the screw holes on the side! at no extra cost. Or replace the pickup from the kitset in to your old guard! Only a 6.5 mm hole needs to be drilled for the overdrive switch. We also supply new pick guard screws and a new Jack plate!
If you do not have a battery holder in the back of your guitar, we recommend placing the 9V battery between the tremolo tension springs behind the back plate. |
 Thanks Joh
Lang For Bank transfer we sent you a bank letter with
the details. |
| In some cases, the spring cavity may not be deep enough to accommodate the 9V battery. Therefore, a slight modification may be needed in some guitars for the battery to fit properly, Or! place the Jack upside down ! to fit the Battery. |
Well it certainly looks
that way! It started 5 years ago when Joh wasn't satisfied with
the quality of existing famous pickups which he used in his handcrafted
guitars. So he started developing his own state of the art pickups.
Within one year he introduced his noiseless single coil Langcaster
pickups with integrated PC board base in a 6 and 8 pole configuration.
The 8 pole pickup design eliminated signal loss with string bending
where the string is usually pushed away from the magnet pole.
His pickups were installed in the unique Langcaster Swamp Kauri
guitars. Swamp Kauri is a 35,000-year-old native hardwood which
is used for expensive furniture but it now appears to be an excellent
material for guitars and basses. Langcaster instruments became
an instant success in the USA and also in Europe since the end
of 2003.
Now Joh is an innovator,
and inventor. So he knew the drawbacks of high impedance pickups,
even his own, having signal and frequency loss because of the
cable between guitar and amplifier and winding capacitance. He
also noted that most guitarists used stomp boxes to obtain their
overdrive sound. Last year Mr. Lang decided to develop a solution
for both problems. Signal losses from guitar cables can minimized
with a low impedance buffer amplifier in the guitar. A transformer
can do this too, but there are certain losses in transformers.
So Langcaster started at the front end: the pickups. After countless
experiments with magnets, wire gauges and techniques, Joh Lang
created his Langcaster Ultimate Lo pickups and these are truly
revolutionary.
Not only do they have a low resistance of around 100 Ohms, but
they can also be made as a completely noiseless humbucking pickup
in a single coil housing. Normal coil resistance's are around 6,000
ohms. The inductance that those coils have is around 3 Henrys
which is a very high impedance getting higher as the frequency
rises. The new pickups have less than a hundredth of the inductance
of the old high impedance ones. This extends the range of response
and self-resonance is in the supersonic range at over 56 KHz.
The result is a pure clear, crisp and open sound with no restriction
or muddiness. The use of a 100 mt guitar cable and no! loss in
treble is no problem !.
The next step was the development of an appropriate low noise preamplifier and a natural sounding overdrive circuit that would fit into the guitar cavity. After numerous and painstaking experiments, Joh Lang created an onboard overdrive, the Ultimate Drive, that is fully adjustable with the characteristics of a tube driven amp. As a bonus Joh integrated ( Optional) a red LED, which flashes when strings are picked in overdrive mode. The brightness of this LED indicates the picking force. This preamp was designed for a maximum dynamic range with an output capability of 2.5 Volts RMS and with a very low current consumption of only 450 microamps for a long battery life. For example, a PROCELL Alkaline battery with a capacity of 580mAH should last at least 1000 hours of continuous playing time. The battery is only connected when a jack plug is in the output socket.
The Langcaster is a real
giant in the guitar world it outclasses all other guitars in volume,
frequency range and clarity by far and with a flick of the switch
you have a magnificent overdrive comparable to expensive boutique
amps, eliminating the need for a Tube Screamer or similar effect.
Because of its many outstanding features the pickups can be used
for any playing style from country to jazz and from blues to Heavy
Metal.
Langcaster has now also a FX model with additional digital delay
& Chorus.
The Langcaster is not only a beautiful piece of art, it delivers more than anyone could wish for, THE ULTIMATE SOUND!
