Oh Dear, I think I like EMG's :(

Re: Oh Dear, I think I like EMG's :(

Oh yea and i tried the JB, and the SH-5 Custom... The custom sounded like garbage, so muffled and distorted, Not Clean at all... The JB is defiantly better, but didn't provide the crunch of an EMG...

Opinions Anyone?
 
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Re: Oh Dear, I think I like EMG's :(

so if i run SD passives with 1 meg pots, they should sound alot brighter then my ****ty duncan designed?

No, going less than 500 Kohm is a very small change in sound. I doubt many people can hear it at all.
 
Re: Oh Dear, I think I like EMG's :(

Oh yea and i tried the JB, and the SH-5 Custom... The custom sounded like garbage, so muffled and distorted, Not Clean at all... The JB is defiantly better, but didn't provide the crunch of an EMG...

Opinions Anyone?

So did you look up what pots and caps you have or are you jut a write-only user?
 
Re: Oh Dear, I think I like EMG's :(

Yea, I have 500k volume pots... and some strange coilsplitter tone pots??? spin a split i think... but i have no idea what the caps are...
 
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Re: Oh Dear, I think I like EMG's :(

With EMG's it really depends on what's vibing with you on the guitar. I put a set of EMG's on my goldtop EC400 (see my avatar) and they absolutley smoke on that guitar. On the other hand, I just took a whole set of EMG's out of my 1989 HM Strat that have been installed in that guitar for about 15 years 'cause I'm not feeling the active tone anymore.

I really like the EMG humbuckers - the 89, 81, and 60. All very nice pickups - I think the distortion tones you can get with the 81 are fantastic, and very fitting for my sorta-kinda Les paul knockoff EC400at.

On the other hand, I am trying out one of the Duncan SH-5 custom pickups in my HM strat now, and that's going pretty good. To me, pickups are like pedal combinations - you just gotta try different combinations in different instruments to find your sound.

-PT
 
Re: Oh Dear, I think I like EMG's :(

I'm not crapping on EMGs at all, but based on what you've said about some of the other pickups you've tried, I find myself pretty curious about the rest of your setup.

EDIT: Nevermind, I just saw the post about the Traynor. I know that amp. Perfectly fine amp. I guess I just hear things differently.
 
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