Anyone Keep Going Back To EMG?

[Hoss632]

The bridge sounds like a JM pickup with the tone knob turned down pretty low.

I have no experience unfortunately playing a JM pick up so I will 100% take your word for it. Ray has a squier baritone jazzmaster too that sounds awesome in Drop F with the stock pick ups. But he's a balaguer and EMG artist so it makes sense that he'll use this guitar as his main.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

I have no experience unfortunately playing a JM pick up so I will 100% take your word for it. Ray has a squier baritone jazzmaster too that sounds awesome in Drop F with the stock pick ups. But he's a balaguer and EMG artist so it makes sense that he'll use this guitar as his main.

JMs have a shit ton of brightness in the bridge. Combination of the single coils + 1meg pot. Judging by that video alone, it rolls of that high end tremendously.

 

[Hoss632]

JMs have a shit ton of brightness in the bridge. Combination of the single coils + 1meg pot. Judging by that video alone, it rolls of that high end tremendously.

Having heard him play the squier a lot, plus this Balaguer with the stock JM style pick ups that came in it and now these, I can say that the EMG set sits inbetween the stock Squier set and the stock balaguer set in terms of brightness. The Squier set was the darkest, and the Balaguer was VERY bright. These have a nice middle ground to them. Funny enough, the more I listen to the video the more the voicing on the bridge pick up sounds good. I still think the neck pick up sounds fantastic.

 

[PF Chang]

I bought an Ibanez Iron Label with EMG's and intended to swap them out because actives are not my thing. I hadn't owned an 81 in almost 20 years. I left them in and won't ever change a thing. It's been a long time since I bought a guitar and left all the hardware intact.

 

[Kyle Jordan]

Anyone run any of your EMGs straight to the output? No volume, no tone.

I'm guessing the difference was minimal or negligible due to them being active as compared to what you would get with passives.

 

[NoodleFace]

I did that for a friend and noticed no tonal differences. We put a Killswitch in (the mind that clicks) to control the volume on/off though

 

[Emperoff]

So I recently got a ESP MII original series, and to my surprise it has dual EMG 81's. I haven't spent too much time playing the neck pickup. What's the general consensus on an 81 in the neck?

That anything you may like about it is outclassed by an EMG-60

 

[narojo]

I played an ESP with an evertune and some EMGs at a Guitar Center. The cleans were sterile and surgical and into a dirty channel it was like the perfect bridge lead tone. Personally I like Fishmans

 

[Dumple Stilzkin]

That anything you may like about it is outclassed by an EMG-60

I like it well enough to not be in a hurry to change it out. But I’ll keep that in mind.

 

[CrushingAnvil]

I just put this Lukather style set in my strat and couldn't be happier. Incredible pickups.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

I like it well enough to not be in a hurry to change it out. But I’ll keep that in mind.

The 60 is still pretty middy but not to the extent the 81 is. The highs are more sparkly and there's a bit more low end. It's great if you want good cleans with power behind them but still have clarity under distortion.
FWIW I also like the 85 in the neck. I used to hate it, but you gotta crank the pickup REALLY fucking low for it to sound good. But it can sound good.

 

[MattThePenguin]

I used to hate them but I had only had time to play and track the guitar with a 707 and now I'm starting to think something was wrong with it. I got my ESP in 2020 that came with the 707s and had already ordered Warpigs with the proper mounts to replace them. To my surprise the 707s sounded fine, nothing like what I had experienced previously. If I had not ordered the warpigs already I might have decided to save the money but I think soapbar pickups look awful anyways.

I love so many tones that were tracked with an 81, been dying to try one. One day I'll get an explorer and put an 81 in it for.. reasons..

 

[Dumple Stilzkin]

The 60 is still pretty middy but not to the extent the 81 is. The highs are more sparkly and there's a bit more low end. It's great if you want good cleans with power behind them but still have clarity under distortion.
FWIW I also like the 85 in the neck. I used to hate it, but you gotta crank the pickup REALLY fucking low for it to sound good. But it can sound good.

Sounds pretty good. At some point I will replace the pickups as they are pretty used and show signs of their age. Maybe I will just change the neck one out first.

 

[lewis]

im bumping this purely for the sake of any new info on those newly teased Jazzmaster pickups ?

As well as suggestions for something in my humbucker equipped, 6 string, 30inch baritone.
Are the P90 style in normal humbucker housings any good? Kind of want something twangy and disgusting in this guitar
EDIT: If the Jazzmaster style pups drop soon I could always try a pickguard swap and put them in if the routes under the guard are big enough

 

[Hoss632]

im bumping this purely for the sake of any new info on those newly teased Jazzmaster pickups ?

As well as suggestions for something in my humbucker equipped, 6 string, 30inch baritone.
Are the P90 style in normal humbucker housings any good? Kind of want something twangy and disgusting in this guitar

Seen nothing other than Ray's video on the jazzmaster pick ups. Only p90ish sound I can think of is the 58.

 

[lewis]

Seen nothing other than Ray's video on the jazzmaster pick ups. Only p90ish sound I can think of is the 58.

same. Thats annoying.
Hope they announce them soon. EMG are overdue no products. I dont really class signature pickups

 

[TornAnus]

Whats the most painless and cheapest way to direct mount an EMG? All the small woodscrews i have here are wrong thread.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Whats the most painless and cheapest way to direct mount an EMG? All the small woodscrews i have here are wrong thread.

Well, EMG lists b stock as "direct mount only" so I think they Strip them out.

 

[Steinmetzify]

And I’m back. After 5 months with a KsE Fishman in my Caparison I just grabbed a black chrome 81 to chuck in there.

Fishman is a solid pickup and I’d recommend it to anyone that wants to be more technical than I do, but I want that raw 81 sound in this guitar.

 

[TornAnus]

Well, EMG lists b stock as "direct mount only" so I think they Strip them out.

Eh I got impatient and I just bored out the brass threaded insert with a drill bit.