guitarheads pickups?

dawnofzion · Post by **dawnofzion** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:37 pm

Has anyone heard anything about these guitarheads EMG clones? I was considering getting a pair and seeing how they sound. Any thoughts on these? Has anyone heard anything about these?

go to pickups and they should be the first ones.
http://www.guitarheads.net/

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:50 pm

I wouldn't buy shit from anybody who had this on their website:

arcadedave · Post by **arcadedave** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:55 pm

Yeah, whole thing seems a lil' amateur-ish

dawnofzion · Post by **dawnofzion** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:44 pm

yeah I thought the same thing, but I have been searching for reviews and they have all been really good so far.

http://guitarmods.proboards83.com/index ... 1161363940
http://reviews.harmony-central.com/revi ... ucker/10/1

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:27 am

I wouldn't buy EMGs

dawnofzion · Post by **dawnofzion** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:30 am

light rail coyote wrote:I wouldn't buy EMGs

why is that?

dawnofzion · Post by **dawnofzion** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:36 pm

light rail coyote wrote:I wouldn't buy EMGs

no explanation?

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:38 pm

Probably because they're shite.

I don't like their pickups because the suck all of the dynamics and sparkle out of your guitar. They sound like your whole guitar is brickwall limited and overcompressed. LAME.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:36 pm

EMG's are good for SOME metal playing, other than that mike is right. Very limiting if you like tone.

James · Post by **James** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:39 pm

theshadowofseattle wrote:I wouldn't buy shit from anybody who had this on their website:

Would you do it if that very same site had this also?

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:51 pm

dawnofzion wrote:
light rail coyote wrote:I wouldn't buy EMGs
no explanation?

EMGs are bland, flat and lifeless; the tone on the active models is artificial and forced. unless you want to ever-so-slightly beef up a thin, distorted chord tone to chug along on your E string with and occasionally come in for some G5 and A5 action, they're pretty worthless tone-wise... very elitist and one-trick. a COPY of them is going to be crap x2, i would think.

i also once owned a passive EMG Select humbucker i got out of a random guitar body i'd bought, and i tried it out for five minutes before completely ripping it apart to use the cover on another 'bucker.... an epiphone PAF, which smoked it.

i say go for those "high-output zebra" PAFs on there if you want something agressive or raunchy or whatever.

dawnofzion · Post by **dawnofzion** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:59 am

I have multiple guitars with nice passive pickups in them. I am currently building a guitar that will be strictly for playing metal....That is why I am going the active route. I guess it all depends on the type of music you are playing as well as the player playing it.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:21 am

bob wrote:
theshadowofseattle wrote:I wouldn't buy shit from anybody who had this on their website:

Would you do it if that very same site had this also?

OH SHI-

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:13 am

dawnofzion wrote:I guess it all depends on the type of music you are playing as well as the player playing it.

True and if you want that scooped metal sound then EMG's are great but that's about all. You are not really being critisized, people are just trying to help by pointing out other pickups have a lot more scope and dynamics.
I think it is a lottery with copies, i fitted a no name hot rail in one of my Jags and it sounds better than the SD hot rail i had in a Musicmaster. They could sound great in an active EMG kind of way. Its a gamble. Good luck with 'em.

ihatetanks · Post by **ihatetanks** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:33 am