EMG : Het Set vs 81/89 !
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RandomToneGuy
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Re: EMG : Het Set vs 81/89 !
I would say they reaction better, almost like a passive, carry better note separation, ring just a bit more clearly. They carry a lot of the same overtknes, but still sound very different, I don't know how, but I'm guessing the het set does it better. I have a 57/66 set, and these react to string picking just like those, but closer to 70% 81/89 I'm guessing. Like just blended together very nicely and then they one used it to produce these.
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I would say they reaction better, almost like a passive, carry better note separation, ring just a bit more clearly. They carry a lot of the same overtknes, but still sound very different, I don't know how, but I'm guessing the het set does it better. I have a 57/66 set, and these react to string picking just like those, but closer to 70% 81/89 I'm guessing. Like just blended together very nicely and then they one used it to produce these.
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Rex_Rocker
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I have no idea what some guys are hearing/feeling when they say the Het Set is more passive-like. I was a huge EMG fan before switching to Duncan passives. Back when I had the Het Set, I found the bridge pickup slightly more attacky and beefy than the 81, but also much louder and more saturated and gainy than the 81. Honestly, it didn't feel like a passive at all to me. It just felt like a super-charged tweaked 81.
I have no idea what some guys are hearing/feeling when they say the Het Set is more passive-like. I was a huge EMG fan before switching to Duncan passives. Back when I had the Het Set, I found the bridge pickup slightly more attacky and beefy than the 81, but also much louder and more saturated and gainy than the 81. Honestly, it didn't feel like a passive at all to me. It just felt like a super-charged tweaked 81.
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The JEM Ghost
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Me neither...
I do hear difference between the two sets (but they are in different guitars though), I got to say I prefer the 81/89 though.
Me neither...
I do hear difference between the two sets (but they are in different guitars though), I got to say I prefer the 81/89 though.
Oilid
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Yeah, sorry for the different guitars, but as the 81/89 are direct mount it"s pain in the ass to swap the pups
Yeah, sorry for the different guitars, but as the 81/89 are direct mount it"s pain in the ass to swap the pups
Oilid
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I think that people think of passive-like when it comes to clean or crunch on the bridge.
I think that people think of passive-like when it comes to clean or crunch on the bridge.
metalchurch79
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For me to take this seriously, I'd have to hear them in the same guitar. I never tried the HetSet, but then again I'm using the 81, so i never had a reason to buy a fascilime of his tone when I already had it so to speak.
Its like comparing his ESP Vulture to his EET Fukk Explorer (or insert example here) Sure he might use that stuff now, but then again he also cut his hair.
The guitars and tone I and many grew up loving is no where near the stuff he plays lately so that being said, a lot of guys usually go for his older gear when tone chasing. I don't even remember Hetfield owning or let alone being caught dead with a LesPaul style guitar back then either....
You need a Triaxis or a Mark llC to really get serious...
Nice playing and everything I can tell you really rolled your sleeves up on this.
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I forgot to add that from what I can tell from your comparison, despite them being different guitars, 81 sounded best, and the HetNeck sounded better than the 89(which is really a tapped 85)
Sucks they aren't more easily swapped, I'd like to hear them...I enjoyed it though, thanks for sharing
For me to take this seriously, I'd have to hear them in the same guitar. I never tried the HetSet, but then again I'm using the 81, so i never had a reason to buy a fascilime of his tone when I already had it so to speak.
Its like comparing his ESP Vulture to his EET Fukk Explorer (or insert example here) Sure he might use that stuff now, but then again he also cut his hair.
The guitars and tone I and many grew up loving is no where near the stuff he plays lately so that being said, a lot of guys usually go for his older gear when tone chasing. I don't even remember Hetfield owning or let alone being caught dead with a LesPaul style guitar back then either....
You need a Triaxis or a Mark llC to really get serious...
Nice playing and everything I can tell you really rolled your sleeves up on this.
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I forgot to add that from what I can tell from your comparison, despite them being different guitars, 81 sounded best, and the HetNeck sounded better than the 89(which is really a tapped 85)
Sucks they aren't more easily swapped, I'd like to hear them...I enjoyed it though, thanks for sharing
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RandomToneGuy
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Re: EMG : Het Set vs 81/89 !
They sound slightly less bright, but separate notes better. It's closer to my ears sweet spot.
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For me it's related to the clean in the crunch, like oh this is difficult, they crunch, but with better note separation, giving just a sort of half bouncy/half fluid, but responding to the string passing in and out of the magnetic field of the individual slugs, so the crunch is more crisp in each string and more bouncy o a sound, but no where near to bouncy, just enough to hit the sweet spot to achieve individual string crunch in the tone, but still really close to an 81 89, but not full there either, just more individual reaction. Imbibed with the rail on the opposite side of the Pickup.
They sound slightly less bright, but separate notes better. It's closer to my ears sweet spot.
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toowrongfoo
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Please don't hate me, but it's hard to tell on two completely different guitars.
My thought? Both sound great, what's to worry about
Please don't hate me, but it's hard to tell on two completely different guitars.
My thought? Both sound great, what's to worry about
Oilid
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LOOOL, if I may, i'd just respond : worry "bout the money loooool
Please don't hate me, but it's hard to tell on two completely different guitars.
My thought? Both sound great, what's to worry about
LOOOL, if I may, i'd just respond : worry "bout the money loooool
