Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

[Children of Bodom]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

O by the way its easy as sh!t to get pinchs out of my EMGs...

 

[Children of Bodom]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

answer my question please...

 

[SeraphimTN]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

I think that would be a natural harmonic, not artificial since your not having to force it out.

 

[Children of Bodom]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

really? I thought it was the way billy gibbons did it...


You hit it then you smack it with your finger after you hit it... Thats weird it sounds exactly like a pinch...


O well

 

[ErikH]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

When you do a pinch, you do hit it with your finger (thumb actually), just the side of it. If you're talking about picking, then tapping the harmonic (like EVH does), that's different.

 

[MichaelMadeja]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

Last time I checked Zakk did squeals with his EMGs on a Les Paul with like 80 gauge strings.

 

[Chi3f]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

i have no problem getting them out of my emgs. I can do it with any pickup combo i have. just practice doing it and you'll be able to do it anytime anywhere. it's all technique.

 

[Metalman_666]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

Hey do you guys ever do the ones where you pick it normally and then hit it quickly with your middle finger?


I always do those when its on the low e... and then normally on the higher strings


That is still a pinch right?

I wouldn't say that's a pinch harmonic by definition because you're not "pinching" the string like you're supposed to with your thumb, but if it gets the same sound then it could be considered a pinch... I'm curious to experiment with that!

Oh BTW, how do you like your Randall combo? Is it the RG100SC or RG100SCG2?

 

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

Yeah, technically, that's a tapped harmonic. They never sound as precise or under control as an actual pinch.

 

[Guitarist]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

Two different scales? Like DSS said, it's in the technique. I'm confident that the EMGs are not at fault.

 

[AmirH]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

I'm gonna say scale length. I used to have this problem in my sg actually. I could do em but it had to be waaay more precise than the on the schecter. When I swapped the 85 to the bridge the problem went away though... it's ridiculously easy now.

 

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

The only thing the scale length would change, IMO, is how your vibrato would sound. With practice, you could get them to sound the same on all scales.

That said, I personally think they sound best on a 26.5-27" scale... I might go baritone for my 6 strings, at this rate.

 

[AmirH]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

Well yeah but that's just it- if he's used to the other axe they won't fly off as easy on a different scale length unless he spends some time adjusting.

 

[Guitarist]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

The only thing the scale length would change, IMO, is how your vibrato would sound. With practice, you could get them to sound the same on all scales.

That said, I personally think they sound best on a 26.5-27" scale... I might go baritone for my 6 strings, at this rate.

Well, what it would do is cause the guitarist to pick in a slightly different place to get an identical pitch.

 

[AmirH]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

Yep!

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

Pickups should really have very little to do with it. If you know how to pull harmonics out of a string, you should know every 'node' above the last fret.
That means, you know what kind of harmonic will chirp off the string, depending where you pinch it with your right thumb. I can pull them off with a tele, low output single coils and a clean amp.

Another trick is picking with your pick, and extending your middle finger beyond the pick, and creating harmonics 12 frets above the fretted note, and
picking them normally. If you do that in front of players that have never seen that technique, you'll scare them!!! LOL

 

[Children of Bodom]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

I wouldn't say that's a pinch harmonic by definition because you're not "pinching" the string like you're supposed to with your thumb, but if it gets the same sound then it could be considered a pinch... I'm curious to experiment with that!

Oh BTW, how do you like your Randall combo? Is it the RG100SC or RG100SCG2?

I have the rg100sc... ya its not bad I like it... but i am getting the 5150 this christmas:chairfall

Do you like yours???

 

[Metalman_666]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

I have the rg100sc... ya its not bad I like it... but i am getting the 5150 this christmas:chairfall

Do you like yours???

I've learned to really like it, especially with the EQ I have in the FX loop. However I'm still lusting for some tube tone... and that will come.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

Another trick is picking with your pick, and extending your middle finger beyond the pick, and creating harmonics 12 frets above the fretted note, and
picking them normally. If you do that in front of players that have never seen that technique, you'll scare them!!! LOL

Don't they call that plucked harmonics, or harp harmonics or something like that? Anyway, another way to do this technique is to forgo the pick, use your index finger to touch the node point, and pluck with your thumb.

I definitely agree with GJ that you shouldn't rely on a hot pickup for artificial harmonics. Practice to the point where you can do it on an acoustic, and they'll SCREAM with distortion!

 

[Children of Bodom]

Re: Grr I'm close to ridding myself of EMG's, help me!

I've learned to really like it, especially with the EQ I have in the FX loop. However I'm still lusting for some tube tone... and that will come.

Ya its actually a nice amp... Although I feel the same way as you I want tube tone pretty damn bad...