knucklefux
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Re: Emg 81
what i REALLY think is that what we think doesn't matter b/c we don't know what sound is in your head. that being said, i think you should try a distortion in the bridge position and a jb in the neck position. if you could coil tap these two pickups, you would probably have more different sounds available to you than you could shake a stick at. i say the distortion b/c it has high output and a good frequency response. this should satisfy your metal desires. for the hendrix/bluesy stuff you'd need to roll off the vol and tone pots a little, but it would work. this is also where the jb comes in handy. i think jb's are just extremely natural sounding. emg 81's are not natural in that you can put them in any guitar and they all sound almost identical, a jb doesn't control the flavor of the tone from your guitar, it adds just a pinch of something...anyway, sometimes you just gotta explore your options.
one last piece of advice. long story, though. back when van halen was unsigned/unheard of, they got the chance to go on tour with ted nugent. one night after eddie got finished with the sound check, ted asked if he could play through eddies rig. eddie just handed him the guitar and said sure. ted played for a minute, then said "it doesn't sound anything like you!". eddie just held up his hands and wiggled his fingers at ted.
i remember always saying, "if i just get this and that, i'll have the sound i want". this is true to a degree, crappy equipment is always gonna behave like crappy equipment. the real truth is that YOUR tone is in how YOU play. i can hand you my guitar and you will sound nothing like me, because i have MY OWN tone. if i had spent as much time working on my tone as i did looking for my tone, my time would have been well spent.
i will now step DOWN from the soapbox...
Charvel said:
what i REALLY think is that what we think doesn't matter b/c we don't know what sound is in your head. that being said, i think you should try a distortion in the bridge position and a jb in the neck position. if you could coil tap these two pickups, you would probably have more different sounds available to you than you could shake a stick at. i say the distortion b/c it has high output and a good frequency response. this should satisfy your metal desires. for the hendrix/bluesy stuff you'd need to roll off the vol and tone pots a little, but it would work. this is also where the jb comes in handy. i think jb's are just extremely natural sounding. emg 81's are not natural in that you can put them in any guitar and they all sound almost identical, a jb doesn't control the flavor of the tone from your guitar, it adds just a pinch of something...anyway, sometimes you just gotta explore your options.
one last piece of advice. long story, though. back when van halen was unsigned/unheard of, they got the chance to go on tour with ted nugent. one night after eddie got finished with the sound check, ted asked if he could play through eddies rig. eddie just handed him the guitar and said sure. ted played for a minute, then said "it doesn't sound anything like you!". eddie just held up his hands and wiggled his fingers at ted.
i remember always saying, "if i just get this and that, i'll have the sound i want". this is true to a degree, crappy equipment is always gonna behave like crappy equipment. the real truth is that YOUR tone is in how YOU play. i can hand you my guitar and you will sound nothing like me, because i have MY OWN tone. if i had spent as much time working on my tone as i did looking for my tone, my time would have been well spent.
i will now step DOWN from the soapbox...
