emg's vs duncans vs dimarzi

[dgk2448]

looking for new pickup combo. thinkin either emg 85[brigde] and emg60[neck] or seymour duncn custom/59 combo or a dimarzio paf pro and paf joe combo. for playing any kinda of rock from cream to nirvana to 80's hair metal and led zepplin. to clean rock as well. so i need good distortion tones and good clean tones from this combo. any imput is appreciated

 

[Loserchief]

Re: emg's vs duncans vs dimarzi

replace the emg 85 with an89 and you should have all bases covered. Everything from ultra-clean jazz to bone-rattling metal and the ability to split the 89 into a singlecoil SA. Great combo if you ask me.

 

[frehley]

Re: emg's vs duncans vs dimarzi

although I'm mainly an emg user, in your case I would recommend the custom/59
set-up.I use seymour duncan pick-ups for anything other than for super saturated
tones. The bands and tones you described were created using passive pick-ups not
active ones so why try not try passives first. For jazz tones passive duncans will give you that warm woody tone you need so a '59 or even a sh1n jazz pick-up in the neck will give you what you want. A sh5b custom will give you that edgy punchie crunch you want for the more aggresive hard rock type tones.

The only time I would recommend active designs is if passive pick-ups simply wont give you the amount of extremely saturated tone you need. At intense volumes and hi-gain,
an active design sounds clearer & more defined that passive designs IMO.
The duncans I personally use are:
sh6b-Distortion
sh10n-Full Shred

 

[WICKED LESTER]

Re: emg's vs duncans vs dimarzi

custom in the bridge/59 neck
this combo will take you wherever you need to go man
I absolutely thank seymour for this custom pup
i like it more than my emg's now
it really grew on my when i started playiun more classic stuff like KISS, ac/dc, VH,zep
i love the fact that not only can i do those tones but with very little tweaking i can go full tilt and dop all the SLAYER, older metallica,megadeth,etc stuff no prob
the emgs are great but much more limiting tone wise they are a specailty pup like the 81 excels at the heavy stuff but will, not do a good classic tone