EMG 81/89 clips...

[ztevie]

OK, I promised to put up some sound samples as soon I got my pups installed, so here it is...

I've got a Schecter C1+ and I put the 81 in the bridge and the 89 in the neck.
Each clip consists of 3 samples really. 81(bridge, humbucker), 89(neck, humbucker) and 89(neck, splitted to single coil).
There are 3 clips, the first clean is pure guitar into the computer, no fx, no tweaking at all, EQ at 12 o clock.
On the other 2(Dirty, Lead) i've added som distortion and delay.

I set the distortion to about 40% so they don't need much to go over the top.
OK, take a listen, but please don't bash me for sloppy playing!! :smack: I just improvised some stuff to get it up there as soon as possible. Eventually I'll get up some real songs, and then you can bash me all you want! :laugh2:

Ztevie's clips

 

[mongrollo]

Re: EMG 81/89 clips...

Thanks for the clips!!! Thoose pickups sound a bit thin clean, but dirty are sooo fat!!.

 

[ztevie]

Re: EMG 81/89 clips...

Yeah, but you have to consider that I recorded them super-clean into the computer with no effects and EQ set at 12 o clock. It's like plugging a guitar into the amp with everything but the volume set to 0. So the sound is as bad as it gets, with some tweaking and effects they are pretty fat clean too...
I didn't put any effects there now for you to hear the naked sound.

 

[mongrollo]

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Thanks!!!

 

[BigBazz]

Re: EMG 81/89 clips...

very nice playing, nice sounding pickups, even on clean i liked them, though they are a tad too high output for clean sounds.

 

[ztevie]

Re: EMG 81/89 clips...

Thanks, I actually think they are decent for cleans too. But you've gotta roll off the volume, at least on the 81 and the 89 in humbucker mode... In these clips I had the volume all the way up.
When I get around to tweak my settings some I'm confident I'll get some great tones out of them. So far I'm happy with my purchase.

By the way, what about the finnish in your signature??

 

[Guitarist]

Re: EMG 81/89 clips...

What'd you do with the Duncans?

 

[ztevie]

Re: EMG 81/89 clips...

You mean the Duncan Designed HB 103's? Still got 'em... If I sell it in the future I might pop them in there again.

 

[fenderiarhs]

Re: EMG 81/89 clips...

Very good clips......

 

[ztevie]

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Thanks fender...

So what do you think of the differences between the pups?
I think that In the Clean clip you can really hear the difference between the 81 and 89(treblier/bassier) + the splitted to single 89 which has much lower output and a cleaner sound. You can actually hear some distortion from the 81 and 89 in hb-mode even though it's as clean as it gets?

When it comes to distortion my feeling is that 81 is suited for rhytm in metal, the 89 humbucker for more sort of rock sound, while the 89 single coil has a nice singing tone to use for lead?

I've also got separate volume controls for each pup so I could always experiment with using both pups at the same time, and play with the volume to fine adjust the tone for what I want...

I really wish I had a bigass amp to test these in!

 

[WITH FULL DISTORTION]

Re: EMG 81/89 clips...

i liked the clips, and liked the LEAD specially
very nice constructed
ahahahahah i just missed the metal brutallity riffs on rhythm dirty section
ahahahahahahha

 

[ztevie]

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Haha, well I might record some brutality for you one of these days..? :laugh2:

 

[Metalman_666]

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Nice, clean clips. I'm surprised at how clean they sound going into your computer!

 

[ztevie]

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Thanks Metalman! You know, that's one thing I really like about these pups. Since they're active and there's hardly any magnetism to talk about, they're really quiet!

I can put the guitar down with pickup-volume on full and there's no buzz in the speakers at all... A HUGE advantage when recording at home, on my Peavey with passives, the monitor causes real bad noises, especially on the single-coil...

Oh, now I see you've got EMG's too? So this information was unnecessary, haha... :laugh2:
By the way, did you find the 18v-mod a big improvment? I don't know if I can fit another battery in there but I might try it sometime...

 

[StrangeSound]

Re: EMG 81/89 clips...

I like both versions! EMG isn´t bad..every pup need some tweaks to sound as good as they can.

 

[ztevie]

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Yeah, StrangeSound, so far I'm very pleased and I haven't really gotten into tweaking too much yet. I use POD2 so I've only used fabricated sound. Well, I backed the distortion down some..

 

[seanguynj]

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wow... beautiful... wish i had those pickups but SDs are fine

 

[usagi]

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This reconfirms my GAS for EMG as well as Duncan. I was really impressed with the low end pinchs on the dirty 81 and the nice articulation on the 89 on lead. Great playing helps too! Did you put the pickups in yourself? Was it hard? If not was it expensive?

 

[ztevie]

Re: EMG 81/89 clips...

This reconfirms my GAS for EMG as well as Duncan. I was really impressed with the low end pinchs on the dirty 81 and the nice articulation on the 89 on lead. Great playing helps too! Did you put the pickups in yourself? Was it hard? If not was it expensive?

Thanks for the kind words...

Yes, I put them in myself. It wasn't very hard... Though I have soldered some before which helps. If you haven't soldered you should practice before some until you feel you get the hang of it.
The pots fitted directly, so did the pickups, but that may vary from guitar to guitar.
Also I got a handmade scheme from EMG support, they didn't have the right one for my pots/switch with this pickupconfiguration, so Rick at EMG made me one. Great support!

As you I think the 89(especially in singlecoil-mode) sounds better on lead :wink:

 

[WITH FULL DISTORTION]

Re: EMG 81/89 clips...

HAHAHAH YAH MAN, i want some Metal clips
PM me when you DONE IT.
Q
Don´t forget, with full distortion, or at least, enough distortion..IT MEANS more distortion than you dialed in on this soundclips.
J.P