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active pickups...
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 5:48 pm
by dezb1
Any good for anything other than ultra compressed metal sounds?
I've been offered a guitar for cheaps, kinda looks like an ESP les Paul thing...
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 7:50 pm
by Rox
Just acts like an ultra hot pickup. You can get good bright cleans as well. I had a Charvel with EMG actives where there were good cleans . Also you get cool sound when muting you can't get with passives not to mention more sustain.
I just hated unscrewing the back of my guitar to change the 9 volts.
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:07 pm
by George
Good for sticking up your arse
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:16 pm
by Doog
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 10:50 pm
by dezb1
George wrote:Good for sticking up your arse
In that case I'll pass, too many sharp angles.
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 12:35 am
by Gabriel
They have a weird overly compressed sound. Less dynamics and quite scooped sounding. They're not bad per say as they have their own thing going but that isn't really my thing.
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 12:48 pm
by bradzeera
I do not like the idea of needing batteries to play guitar through an amp, so I've never had a guitar with EMGs. I have played a few and they are pretty decent, depending on the model of pickup.
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 9:23 pm
by Janine
How much truth do you reckon there is to the whole "EMGs sound the same no matter what you put them in"?
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 9:26 pm
by Bacchus
I remember chatting to Machinehead's guitar tech and he was grumbling that they had all these fifties and sixties Gibsons with an 81/85 set in all of them making them all basically identical.
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 9:39 pm
by George
Jani wrote:How much truth do you reckon there is to the whole "EMGs sound the same no matter what you put them in"?
The same being shit
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 9:40 pm
by YuriK
they just sound really sterile. They sound like a guitar that's already been recorded and made into an mp4 file, but not in a cool lofi way, in a boring lifeless way.
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 10:50 pm
by Noirie.
EMG 81's are actually quite a moderate output pickup. Something like 10k iirc.
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 11:04 pm
by Janine
I think I'd like to do the experiment for myself with a bawls guitar and a used emg and see what happens.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 6:13 pm
by honeyiscool
The EMG single coils sound beautiful and glassy. To me, they have a tone that really holds up to pedals really well, especially delays and such. If you watch a lot of David Gilmour performances, he uses his EMGs quite a bit.
EMG humbuckers, I'm probably take it or leave it about them.
But the thing is, you can get most of what's good about EMG pickups by getting good quality low noise passive pickups. DiMarzio, Kinmans, especially Lace. And then you can get the nice beautiful glassy sound without having to deal with batteries.
