nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

[CrashCorpse]

The ESP LTD JK-1 Jeff Kendrick Signature Main Features:

•Neck-thru construction
•Mahogany body
•Flamed maple top
•Maple neck
•Ebony fingerboard
•EMG 81 Neck Pickup
•EMG 81 Bridge Pickup
•Dark see-thru Blue finish

i think the Emgs sound a bit thin, but otherwise i love the guitar.
i think ill keep actives in her. but which ones.

Blackouts seem to be the choice. The artist the guitar was made for put Blackouts in his.

 

[Ed Hunter]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

dual emg 89's or blackouts

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

If you don't want to change the pickups you could add one of their EQ controls.

 

[dominus]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

Try an 85 in place of one of the 81s. (Try it in both positions.)

 

[Soulcrusher_X]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

Try an 85 in place of one of the 81s. (Try it in both positions.)

+1 Back when I used EMGs, I preferred the 85 over the 81 in the bridge and used a 60 in the neck. The 85 is much warmer than the 81, but not muddy. The 60 has a nice midrange attack that always worked well for soloing in the neck of either my Schecter or my Les Paul.

 

[Ventilator]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

The 60 makes a pretty nice neck pickup.

 

[crguti]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

when people get a squier... do they say, "my fender squier" too?

 

[Ventilator]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

They certainly say that when they sell them.

 

[CrashCorpse]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

maybe its just a "bleed over" from Car Culture. people say Ford Mustang, Chevy Tahoe, Make model kinda thing.
With guitars, it may have to do with Custom Shops and denoting the level of quality a particular instrument was made with.
PRS has an Se line, gibson epiphone, ESP Ltd, etc.

God knows how many Gibsons and fenders and Jacksons where made by other companies anyway. those other companies turned out almost identical instruments made from same materials and by the same craftsmen... just names where changed.
or maybe we are proud of what we have invested time into and feel we should use the full name of a instrument.

 

[dominus]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

when people get a squier... do they say, "my fender squier" too?

ESP LTD is actually correct.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/search/search.jsp?question=esp+ltd

http://www.guitarcenter.com/ESP.gc

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=mi&field-keywords=esp+ltd&x=0&y=0

 

[crguti]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

http://www.espguitars.com/guitars.html
according the the 'official' ESP usa web page, there are ESP and LTD. Just keep like that.

 

[uOpt]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

If the 81 sounds thin to you but you like it otherwise the EMG 85 and 89 is the obvious answer. Also preserves the looks of the guitar.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

The newer -85X has massively improved dynamics over either the -85 or the -81. I imagine that the -81X is similarly improved. (I have not yet tried one.)

 

[CrashCorpse]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

I keep hearing people talk about the organic sound of SD's compared to the sterile tone of EMG's
anyone have an opinion on that.

 

[Jackson Distortion]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

Just keep the 81's in, OP, and eq your amp/gear and apply plenty o' volume.

 

[CrashCorpse]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

if the tones in my head have a Culinary parallel it would be a honey butter biscuit in the neck, the bridge would have to be a spicy meatball coated in a habanero jelly.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: nothings better than stock Pup's...right?

if the tones in my head have a Culinary parallel it would be a honey butter biscuit in the neck, the bridge would have to be a spicy meatball coated in a habanero jelly.

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