What does the EMG 81 do?

[Mincer]

My FM3 seems pretty sensitive to loud pickup signals. It is more touchy to set up than passive, vintage-output pickups.

 

[krovatron]

What Mincer said. One advantage of some of the Fluence models, you can add jumpers to the pickups that put a *-9db* correction: -6db cut to the signal, making them passive line level.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

What Mincer said. One advantage of some of the Fluence models, you can add jumpers to the pickups that put a -9db cut to the signal, making them passive line level.

6 dB.

 

[alex1fly]

Oh. My. Goodness.

First ride with the EMG 81 completely slays my face so thoroughly that I had to make a recording and a ridiculous video. I am very impressed! This tone is so brutal and beautiful and I did barely any processing! I spent less than an hour in the DAW writing/tracking/arranging this loop. And then another hour doing dumb stuff in iMovie lol. Thanks for the encouragement to just try it!

EMG 81 is in a Yamaha Pacifica, flush with the pickguard. Rhythm guitar is a modeled 5150 + a modeled Dual Rec. Lead guitar is some cocked wah preset that sounded good. Drums are Logic Drummer with some light customization.

 

[DCikes88]

^Niiiice! I even like the video, I was bobbin and weavin all around the place

Glad you love the 81. My 81/S/S is also in a Pacifica, for the time being. I'd love to replace the S' with SA's and plop the whole set in a Jem Jr.

 

[alex1fly]

^Niiiice! I even like the video, I was bobbin and weavin all around the place

Glad you love the 81. My 81/S/S is also in a Pacifica, for the time being. I'd love to replace the S' with SA's and plop the whole set in a Jem Jr.

Thanks! I like keeping videos "real" and "simple". No fancy production, please haha

 

[alex1fly]

Put this thing through some Fender/Tubescreamer overdrive action last night. Also smokes. Very clear and muscular. There's just a bit more refinement in the distorted sound than I get with my other axes - not a ton more refinement, but enough to where it sounds a little more like a well recorded hard rock tune. Kinda cool. The cleans are gorgeous too, big and fat and warm even with the tone knob dimed. A lot less high end than I was expecting based on so much chatter about the pickup, less high end actually than any of my various PAF bridge pickups.

 

[jeremy]

a paf is usually a pretty bright pup