Something Different - EMGs.....

[donaldr]

Emg57 is their most paf like bridge humbucker.

I think the Retro Active Fat 55 is closer to a PAF. But I never heard a real PAF so take my comment with a grain of salt.
I like the Fat 55 neck but I swapped the Fat 55 bridge for a Super 77 bridge, which I like better in my application.

 

[Juanhanglo]

I think the Retro Active Fat 55 is closer to a PAF. But I never heard a real PAF so take my comment with a grain of salt.
I like the Fat 55 neck but I swapped the Fat 55 bridge for a Super 77 bridge, which I like better in my application.

I meant from the full normal lineup.

 

[donaldr]

Retroactives are the full normal lineup, not a one-shop or a custom shop or for limited time only...

 

[Juanhanglo]

Retroactives are the full normal lineup, not a one-shop or a custom shop or for limited time only...

I know that.

I meant that they're standard coils with an active circuit attached, not the small weak coils that get amplified and eq'd up like the standard, as in non retroactive, line up.

They make 3 lines: the og actives, the retros, and the passive HZs.

Not sure how that got translated to custom shop. Lol

 

[Butch Snyder]

Ok, after having the set in for awhile, I have decided to remove them. They're great pickups, but I don't feel they have the same "organicness" than passive pickups have.

 

[hamerfan]

I talked everybody out of changing to EMG. One exception was a guy who played loud old school Hardrock with a white strat into a Marshall stack (you get the picture). The big stage lightning, fog machine, stroboscope and such killed his live sound.

 

[Butch Snyder]

I talked everybody out of changing to EMG. One exception was a guy who played loud old school Hardrock with a white strat into a Marshall stack (you get the picture). The big stage lightning, fog machine, stroboscope and such killed his live sound.

I get that there are some players, Zakk, the Metallica guys, Reb Beach, Steve Lukather, and others that are hardcore EMG users. They've used them for decades and EMGs helped defined their sound. Steve Lukather actually switch to DiMarzios (ceramic mags) but he still plays his EBMM guitars with the EMGs too.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I posted a thread asking about if anything had changed about EMG's a few years ago because I got a few EMG's that sounded way off. Turns out, they changed a component inside the preamp in the late 2010's.

I hate to be the guy that says "older is better", but pre 2018 EMG's definitely sound more like what I expect from an EMG. Dareisay, "better". That was like 7 years ago. I wonder if they changed anything else later to make them sound more like they used to before.

 

[jeremy]

so my old 90s emg 81 sounds better than a new one, nice.

 

[donaldr]

Maybe my old '80s EMGs sounds better then yours '90s EMGs

 

[ZachcNJ]

I posted a thread asking about if anything had changed about EMG's a few years ago because I got a few EMG's that sounded way off. Turns out, they changed a component inside the preamp in the late 2010's.

I hate to be the guy that says "older is better", but pre 2018 EMG's definitely sound more like what I expect from an EMG. Dareisay, "better". That was like 7 years ago. I wonder if they changed anything else later to make them sound more like they used to before.

I noticed the same thing! I have a Washburn from the 80s. The guy I bought it from put a set of 81/85s in it in the late 90s. The bridge pickup was acting up so I grabbed a new 85 to swap it out and the new 85 definitely is missing something. Sounds very flat, thin, and just underwhelming. I thought I might have messed something up when I was installing it so brought it to my local tech and he said everything is perfect so yeah there’s definitely a difference

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I noticed the same thing! I have a Washburn from the 80s. The guy I bought it from put a set of 81/85s in it in the late 90s. The bridge pickup was acting up so I grabbed a new 85 to swap it out and the new 85 definitely is missing something. Sounds very flat, thin, and just underwhelming. I thought I might have messed something up when I was installing it so brought it to my local tech and he said everything is perfect so yeah there’s definitely a difference

Yeah, flat and thin is how I'd describe them.