Anyone Keep Going Back To EMG?

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

May have to tune that lower to compensate the brightness.

It's funny because it's my D# standard guitar.

 

[c7spheres]

^
If you just call it Eb instead of D# it will sound better. Eb sounds better than D#. It's darker sounding because it's flat. I swear. It's true. : )

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Tune it to Eb. It would sound rad.

Edit: never mind I responded on the previous page and didn't see there was another page with replies.

 

[gnoll]

I have EMGs in maple neck throughs with alder wings. Sounds good.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

I have EMGs in maple neck throughs with alder wings. Sounds good.

Thats what my SC-607B is rocking and it's my best sounding guitar.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

No turning back now.

Gonna finish tomorrow. There was some fuckups installing these, so I'm spent.

 

[c7spheres]

Looks good!

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

I got impatient and wired it up.

...If you love mids and treble, this combination is for you.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

I got impatient and wired it up.

...If you love mids and treble, this combination is for you.

That's what you get for not putting the 85 in the bridge where it belongs.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

That's what you get for not putting the 85 in the bridge where it belongs.

Half right. The 85 is in the wrong place.

It actually belongs in the trash.

 

[Mathemagician]

81/81 or 57/66 and let’s all go home.

Though I do want to try those single coil SA’s.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Half right. The 85 is in the wrong place.

It actually belongs in the trash.

The 81 is the one that would look better in your rubbish bin.

 

[lewis]

I got impatient and wired it up.

...If you love mids and treble, this combination is for you.

Damn sounds perfect for me hahah
Modern quack for days.

 

[wakjob]

So...

Who's using EMG passives? Namely the H1 or H2's?

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

When I said this was hell to install, I meant the pickup tabs were enlarged for direct mounting. And my Superhawk obviously has pickup rings... So...

I lost my nuts that could be glued or soldered onto the tabs to make them threadable again. So, if you have a dremel or pliers that can cut metal, you can do like I did and go through your bin of absolutely shitty/dead stock pickups, remove the tabs from those, and either glue or solder them under the old tabs. Worked like a charm.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Okay so I got curious and swapped the 81x for the 85x
...81x went right back into the bridge.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Okay so I got curious and swapped the 81x for the 85x
...81x went right back into the bridge.

Lol I hate the 81 in the bridge. Can't add what isn't there, and what isn't there, is much of any bass. If I need to cut bass to tighten up the 85, I can just use a tube screamer.

 

[gnoll]

Yeah I never really "got" the 85 in bridge. Or at all

I mean maybe if you're after a bit of a different flavor, but the bite and articulation of the 81 works so well for high gain, it seems like a shame to lose that for the more woolly 85.

 

[gnoll]

Lol I hate the 81 in the bridge. Can't add what isn't there, and what isn't there, is much of any bass. If I need to cut bass to tighten up the 85, I can just use a tube screamer.

I guess that's true, but you can add bass later in the chain and end up with a ballsy rather than muddy tone. I've never been wanting to add bass pre gain, only cut.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

I guess that's true, but you can add bass later in the chain and end up with a ballsy rather than muddy tone. I've never been wanting to add bass pre gain, only cut.

Well, I tend to go for a Marshall style tone, which I don't think has much bass usually. Furthermore, I think the 81 is a double edged sword for EMG, and has done as much damage to their brand as it has good. The notion that EMGs are sterile, lifeless, only good for metal, etc. is because of the 81 and how people set them up in guitars (ie, as close to the strings as possible), and set up used (ie, tube screamer into a metal amp).