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When 6 strings just aren't enough

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7弦ギターが来たんだ!
Sorry for another 7 string thread, but i recently picked this up from a friend for a good price. It's my only guitar at the moment. Pickups are seymour duncan "blackouts". I'm usually not a huge fan of active pickups, but these seem good so far. Tonight with the typhoon raging outside, i decided to put on some heavy gauge strings and take into "djent" drop G# territory.


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I'd never listened to clips of Blackouts of even read reviews, but I'd always assumed they were EMG clones effectively. What do you think of them?
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Post by Dillon »

Cool. RG1527?

I like the sound of the standard Blackouts better than most of the other pickups in this clip (~9:33, the actual video has time stamp links to all the different models). Suits the genre well. I bet they sound very much like EMGs when they're clean, though---incredible clarity, yet sterile.

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Bacchus wrote:I'd never listened to clips of Blackouts of even read reviews, but I'd always assumed they were EMG clones effectively. What do you think of them?
It's hard to really tell because I'm currently playing it through a line 6 spider amp with the volume on 2. The average studio around here is marshall jcm900 purgatory. I would say they certainly sound like your average active pups, like a bassier emg81.