JustinRhoads1980
Jackson Elitist
I dont understand what the issue is with the battery? If you like the tone why give it up over a battery?
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Because it's a pain in the arse, 9V ain't cheap, and they don't last very long with fishmans.I dont understand what the issue is with the battery? If you like the tone why give it up over a battery?
X-bars sound bad ???
One of the best clip of Ola with the x-bars
A very well made comparison of x-bar , emg , fluence etc :
Because it's a pain in the arse, 9V ain't cheap, and they don't last very long with fishmans.
Rechargeable is an option but I just wanted to see what options there are.
Ah yes Ola, the man who can make a potato sound like a Satan.
And that second video just shows why I don't want X-bars.
To be fair, I played that Strandberg and it sounded amazing enough for me to get X Bars in my Strandberg. I put M8s in my Strandberg pretty quickly.Ah yes Ola, the man who can make a potato sound like a Satan.
And that second video just shows why I don't want X-bars.
On paper it seems that alot of EMGs short-Cummings to me are solved by pairing them with the appropriate EMG active eq knob that solves that particular pickup sets issues (and they do so many active EQ options that there is literally a soloution for everything)
so grab a 57/66 and pair it with something from them that tightens (cuts lows and boosts highs for some extra clarity) and you are pretty much bang on Fishman Modern territory but with a battery that lasts infinitely longer.
The EMG website broSorry to trail off topic a bit, but you triggered my interest here
I have a EMG 57-66 set (in a pretty Schecter too) and I don't dislike them to the point I want to change them (and unless I could sell them to make someone happy I wouldn't want them to go to waste), but I'm looking for ways to improve the sound. I love the cleans, but in distorted sound I have mixed feelings. When I compare and record different pickups and look at the spectrum I see the 57-66 have a low end cut balow say 30 Hz (good) and a boost around 250Hz (tends to muddy things up a little). My biggest qualm is the high end. What provides "air" when playing cleans turns into extra fizz that I don't like when distorted.
Parallel to that, I'm not a fan of the Volume Volume Tone configuration so I would gladly replace on of the volumes for an EQ knob. Where can I find more about these EMG active EQ knobs ?
Sorry to trail off topic a bit, but you triggered my interest here
I have a EMG 57-66 set (in a pretty Schecter too) and I don't dislike them to the point I want to change them (and unless I could sell them to make someone happy I wouldn't want them to go to waste), but I'm looking for ways to improve the sound. I love the cleans, but in distorted sound I have mixed feelings. When I compare and record different pickups and look at the spectrum I see the 57-66 have a low end cut balow say 30 Hz (good) and a boost around 250Hz (tends to muddy things up a little). My biggest qualm is the high end. What provides "air" when playing cleans turns into extra fizz that I don't like when distorted.
Parallel to that, I'm not a fan of the Volume Volume Tone configuration so I would gladly replace on of the volumes for an EQ knob. Where can I find more about these EMG active EQ knobs ?
That's what instantly turned me off to the EMG 57/66 set and led to their demise (me replacing them).My biggest qualm is the high end. What provides "air" when playing cleans turns into extra fizz that I don't like when distorted.
Well I had been thinking why not Fluence, because then I could keep active for cleans and switch to passive for distortion (+single coil voicing as an option). Which is what led me to this post. But if battery life is an issue this is a bit of a turn-off for me, I'm the kind of guy who tends to forget the jack plugged-in. I wish all active guitars and basses would come with an on-off switch to save the battery, with a LED to remind you it's on, but I digress.That's what instantly turned me off to the EMG 57/66 set and led to their demise (me replacing them).
What guitar are you putting them in?Well I had been thinking why not Fluence, because then I could keep active for cleans and switch to passive for distortion (+single coil voicing as an option). Which is what led me to this post. But if battery life is an issue this is a bit of a turn-off for me, I'm the kind of guy who tends to forget the jack plugged-in. I wish all active guitars and basses would come with an on-off switch to save the battery, with a LED to remind you it's on, but I digress.
I'd also considered switching to passives enterily, but I'd like to keep one guitar with actives in my arsenal, esp. for these controlled cleans.
The EMG tone knobs are interesting, but none really does what I want short of installing a 3 band EQ with swept mids, which is a bit overkill (and the cavity might be a bit too small for these extra printed circuits). So far, I'm just better off rolling the tone knob off a little when switching to distortion. And still it's something you could easily forget to do, or sturggle to find the exact same setting again, I would much rather have a switch that just cuts a bit of high-end.
Schecter Hellraiser Hybrid C-7 - the cavity isn't especially big, and the finish is really nice so I'm not willing to risk ruining it by re-routing.What guitar are you putting them in?
You might be able to fit the Fishman Recharge pack in it, which is basically the only reason for this post. It sadly doesn't fit in my guitar.
That at least has a quick change battery space does it not?Schecter Hellraiser Hybrid C-7 - the cavity isn't especially big, and the finish is really nice so I'm not willing to risk ruining it by re-routing.
That at least has a quick change battery space does it not?
The fishman site has the measurements of the recharge pack on there, I'd suggest looking at that if you're going for them.