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@davesansom2302 7 лет назад

Just once, when they're wearing blindfolds, I'd like someone to hand them a live otter each instead of a guitar. Just for the hell of it.

@stuartcarden5402 7 лет назад

Hahahaha yes!!!

@DiedrichKnickerbocker1783 7 лет назад

Ha! I see your otter and raise you a couple rabbits.

@NurseZach 7 лет назад

I see your rabbit and raise you a pair of raccoons

@Fektthis 7 лет назад

Is "live otter" a euphemism for Pete pulling out his junk and handing it to them while blindfolded. Because I'm not so sure he wouldn't just for the lolz.

@guitarFlownimo 7 лет назад

Dave Sansom or the same guitar right back 😂

@acenog123 7 лет назад

Rob is a monster. Not only did he correctly guess the right type of pickup with a few strums, he even guessed the right guitar company.

@sourpatchkid20 5 лет назад

Plus the bottom horn is a tell tale sign no other has a les paul with a horn

@markrosenquist8259 3 года назад

Yep

@Dawnseeker Год назад

Plus he could feel the surface of the pickup and the thin U neck that esp are famous for

@adamhammond9348 7 лет назад

Personally, I can't wait for the Captains breakdown where he just ends up playing active 7 strings and a Kempers. 😉

@sampark17 7 лет назад

Adam Hammond comment of the week goes to you 😂

@MouseChild 6 лет назад

hardcore djent captain

@michaelallen1930 5 лет назад

I really don't think people give Rob NEARLY enough credit or praise for how talented he is when it comes to quickly & accurately identifying such a vast array of tones & brands of gear

@Mitchnagel58 7 лет назад

I'd ask y'all to do a Butane VS Propane challenge, but it'd be too lopsided since propane is by far superior in every single way. I'll tell you what.

@nvlarcht 7 лет назад

Hank Hill No butane is superior to propane on some matters.It boils on a higher temperature,has more carbon and more hidrogene.

@chrisk316 7 лет назад

Charcoal is much better. Much more flavorful grilled meats than propane.

@ViaticalTree 7 лет назад

*hwat

@eddardsnark1548 7 лет назад

Sorry Hank, but well all know that Butane is superior to, and more efficient than Propane.

@downfallofmankind 7 лет назад

butane and propane are peasant stuffs. i used methane from shit and it explodes hard :)) besides methane smells good :P

@akshaykumar_r 7 лет назад

2:55 _This just sounds like a guitar to me._ -Captian 2017

@naylor2006 3 года назад

I loved this bit, I loved the Captain’s general stress that he literally doesn’t have a clue!

@deudex 7 лет назад

Jesus, Rory, this clown honking sound when they grab their guitars... This is brilliant.

@butcherneck 6 лет назад

What is the thing with Rory? I do not get this at all. Could please somebody explain? Thanks :]

@jimjambananaslam3596 5 лет назад

@@butcherneck It's the name of the guy who edits the videos and adds all the weird shit in haha

@dillardfilth8933 6 лет назад

Lee's being baffled by the knobs is priceless

@williamkevern3285 7 лет назад

I love when they start to talk louder... cause they can't see eachother. lmao

@michaellorah9051 6 лет назад

William Kevern "I CAN'T HEAR YOU! IT'S TOO DARK IN HERE!"

@AndiKravljaca 7 лет назад

What a great video! The difference really is apparent, once Rob breaks down what he's listening for.

@itechnologytutorials 7 лет назад

when he says he's switching there guitars he should just pretend to switch them and just give them back the same guitars and see if they change their answers LOL

@Naku_u 5 лет назад

he did at the end there

@mrsweetkandy7673 4 года назад

9:35 (it wasn't them holding it themselves but they would have been able to tell it was the same guitar)

@MrMoo674 7 лет назад

I've gotta say Chappers' moose knuckle really is something to behold

@todbadman 7 лет назад

TRIGERED POTATO that's hilarious. I've not heard that before

@TheScreamingFrog916 5 лет назад

Moose knuckle, what is that? a picking style?

@evmanbutts 4 года назад

Hahaha oh my

@hammyjammies 7 лет назад

You guys should do a blindfold test for pedals, something like stomp box vs multi effects, or cheap vs dear

@stuartcarden5402 7 лет назад

I agree with this sweaty mark

@todbadman 7 лет назад

Vince McMahon likes big Texan bullies good idea

@RKO619ification 7 лет назад

#FireJBL

@aschen 7 лет назад

This is the last place I'd expect to see this, but I'm totally okay with it.

@trainofflesh 7 лет назад

the end is nigh the end is nigh- fuckin run away the end is nigh!!! guess we just found out where the venn diagram of king ross fans and captain n' chappers fans overlaps!

@fleshbhones 7 лет назад

Why is it that the older Rob gets, the cooler he becomes? I don't know how it is possible, he's like a fine wine or something!

@RobChappers 7 лет назад

Ha ha thanks man, I have not yet reached my final form ;-)

@williamchasse1981 7 лет назад

Fives Alives even tighter shorts?

@robbyray 7 лет назад

Fives Alives it's the touch of grey in his beard, methinks. i'm into it!

@veganchoicesareaneasywayto3584 7 лет назад

I love the fact that a guy who owns and runs the best guitar shop in the country and who personally owns tens of thousands of pounds worth of Gibsons, USA Fenders, and collectable tube amps will often get less of these right than if you just flipped a coin at random, AND has no problem admitting it! Guitar players need to take themselves a hell of a lot less seriously and be honest with themselves that most of these cork-sniffing opinions (tube is always better than digital etc.) are just born of bandwagon insecurity, outdated info, and memes. It's an amazing time to be a musician in terms of affordable gear and technological advances, the quality gap between a £400 guitar/amp and one that costs £4000 is getting smaller and smaller.

@luluskywo 7 лет назад

In fairness he actually rarely failed the blindfold challenges. He got it right there

@Lord_Godd 7 лет назад

I think statistically he doesn't fail as much as he believes he does.

@TheShinyShow 7 лет назад

tens of thousands of pounds of guitars? Mate he doesn't even have that many guitars, check his house tour, or cribz whatever it was called. I'm sure he got a couple more like the prs Paul gave him, but still.

@mattsnyder4754 7 лет назад

ScottishCunt ScottishCunt the dude has an R8 Les Paul, a custom PRS, and a 70s Martin. That's literally £10,000 right there.

@PursuitSk8 7 лет назад

well digital is pretty sick too sooooo xP

@JasonX401 7 лет назад

I love this channel so much

@RobChappers 7 лет назад

JasonX401 Thanks mate - thanks for your support :-)

@voxpathfinder15r 7 лет назад

So basically active pickups on a clean tone sound like passive pickups with a compressor pedal.

@zelenilum290 7 лет назад

They react similar, but where as the preamps in active Pickups are more often then not designed to stay neutral/not change the tone, compressors tend to colour the sound quite a bit.

@JanneOksanen 7 лет назад

Basically yes. It's the same as having a clean boost pedal, it's just built inside the guitar. Your signal hits the amp's input harder so there's less headroom resulting in a more compressed sound.

@laniemiller4747 6 лет назад

More or less, yes.

@miltonbates6425 4 года назад

Pretty much. A compressor pedal with a volume boost or EQ boost.

@andertons 7 лет назад

Vaseline

@russianconservative 3 года назад

Andertons Music Co very deep

@stevecrocker6904 6 лет назад

I was ignorant of "active or passive" till this week when I bought a Epiphone SG G-400 (with after market EMG 81s)cheaply after the guy admitted it seemed to have electronic probs. New strings and 9V battery and it sounds great. And I now know about Active and Passive - previous owner obviously didn't.

@sebastianbartolic9716 9 месяцев назад

The fact that rob knew while playing is fine, but just from hearing clean being played he knew is mindblowing

@MFKR696 6 лет назад

"Shitty design." Well there ya have it, folks. That's probably the most honesty you will ever hear out of the Captain

@UnlikeTheJones 7 лет назад

Just want to say that you guys are great. I'm over here serving my country (US) in Afghanistan. I'm so glad that I have Internet to watch your videos! I recently removed Ibanez emg passives (RG) for emg 81/85s. To me, the sound was greatly different (better). Thanks for your review.

@carminepettinicchio1713 6 лет назад

David Jones thanks for all you do for this country 🎸🎸🎸🎸

@JSG-mw4qr 2 года назад

I think you might have been serving for Isreal

@tomaskaraniauskas 7 лет назад

Blindfold challenge with different acoustic body sizess!! I'd love it

@michaelangeloh.5383 7 лет назад

Would probably be the most obvious thing. Especially if they end up getting one of those really thin ones. - I hate when artists play that live.

@tomaskaraniauskas 7 лет назад

Michael Angelo H. If they play the guitars it would be pointless, yeah haha but I mean, rabbea or pete could, I don't know... Maybe compare a d-45 to a hummingbird, or something like that, I don't know, it's just an idea... If you put a parlour and then a jumbo it'd be pretty obvius yeah...

@juansolis507 6 лет назад

Your ability to guess the maker correctly every single time is uncanny. You, sir, are amazing.

@taylorthemusicteacher 7 лет назад

MOOOORE BLINDFOLD!!!

@ajamchomp 7 лет назад

holy shit, bea looks great. keep it up brother

@charleswood123 7 лет назад

Just needs to lose the goofy hair now like rob did

@johndoe-mn2zs 7 лет назад

Charles Wood but... 99% of his tone comes from his fro. #respectthefrobro

@Deathshuck 7 лет назад

"Goofy hair?" and do what, get the tired middle-aged man look? Bea's hair is great and I hope he goes to his grave with it. And for the record, Rob's locks were way better too.

@user-iu8mj3il4n 4 месяца назад

@@Deathshuckno

@davidcantrell2568 7 лет назад

Ya know, I like both styles but I think I'd rather have passive pickups just because of the battery requirement. I don't really trust myself to remember that.

@rickfeith6372 7 лет назад

If that's your holdup....it has no merit. The batteries last forever. Even a full time musician can get a year no problem with one guitar with 2 humbuckers. I can personally attest to this, as my 93 ESP has a pair of 81s. The ONLY thing that's different is you have to unplug the guitar when its not in use. When I change batteries (RARELY) I check the old one on my tongue and its still strong. Every time. If you love the active tones, don't let the battery hold u back. Cheerio.

@mikemikemike701 7 лет назад

David Cantrell yes, I love my emg 60/81 combo.

@codygranrud6212 7 лет назад

David Cantrell, listen to Rick, he's spot on.

@Shadowsoken 7 лет назад

Rick Feith I got an ESP with the EMG 81/85 combo, and I got no problem with the battery. If it goes out, you know immediately when you go to try and play it.

@jimsimmons2674 7 лет назад

Shadowsoken,you should try reversing your EMG pickups,put the 85 in the bridge position and 81 in the neck position,i did this with my epiphone SG and it sounds better to me,the 85 in the bridge gives a better low end but still has good clarity and the 81 in the neck is less muddy sounding and great for OD crunch and blues tones. If you heard of Andy James this is how he has his EMG pickups positioned.

@andresj89 7 лет назад

active, passive, plug me in....what's going on here???

@UnknownGuyFromSomewhere 7 лет назад

I think you missed the point. ^^

@simonthecucumberenjoyer1042 7 лет назад

Aaron Also EMGs don't need grounding. And they adjust the output on their own so basically: Longer cable = Electric resistance More resistance = Less of the output gets to the amp makes sense right? I'm bad at explaining

@Kritions 7 лет назад

(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@maxxdblade 7 лет назад

Theres also a box of vaseline left of Rob...

@chris3383 7 лет назад

maxxdblade lmao now I have to watch it again

@n.g.9705 7 лет назад

Chappers, your shorts are a little too tight for my liking.

@Ali-fl5mb 7 лет назад

Lil bit of moose knucklage never hurt anyone

@seamanjive 7 лет назад

Noah G "Whittaker, take off my bra. Whittaker, take off my panties. And dont ever let me catch you wearing them again!"

@The10000lbGorilla 7 лет назад

Just tight enough for my liking ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@swampmarsh2792 7 лет назад

Moose Knucklage new band name, I call it!

@Quimerateck 7 лет назад

Noah G compressor all the way on those shorts lol

@MravacKid 7 лет назад

I can hear the difference, but there's no way I'd be able to tell which is which without prior knowledge of what they sound like.

@CorvetteCoonass 6 лет назад

Active pickups for me. I always told myself I'd never use active pickups ever. I owned a Rickenbacker 4001 for 5 years and I needed a 5 string bass for the projects I was doing. I was skeptical about the active EMGs. Needless to say the Rickenbacker didn't get used much at all after that and I eventually sold it. A $650 ESP LTD F-415FM with EMG 40DC pickups replaced a $1800 Rickenbacker 4001. Let that sink in...

@Tinchor.15 7 лет назад

I couldn't hear the difference at first, but when Rob talked about the clean tone, I immediately realised the active have a completely different tone!

@ToraNagumanova 7 лет назад

Love you guys so much, the edit is good, Bea was super fun part of it, Lee and Rob are being themselves which I really enjoyed! Y'all like family to me :D

@jaredmeit6127 7 лет назад

Love the editing. Also, Rabea made me crack up!

@shiggypoo 7 лет назад

LOL Poor Captain with the volume controls! I just got my first E-II Eclipse last week and spent the first five minutes complaining of the same thing! Why isn't the neck p'up volume the top knob and bridge middle! Haha!

@Masterfighterx 7 лет назад

Reason in that case: Players perspective. Main pickup for many there is the bridge, so ideally thats the closest knob. But yeah traditionally it's the other way around, I even think they do it the ''right'' way when its 2 Vol. Also, if you get the Eclipse I that is more traditional (4 knobs in the right config, and more traditional horn) then it's like a regular Les Paul

@shiggypoo 7 лет назад

Interesting on the four knob Eclipse! Having played it now for a week I totally get it and it's second nature now, but the first five minutes were pure confusion :)

@Masterfighterx 7 лет назад

Oh wait, I've just googled it, is the middle a master volume? Shouldn't it be just for the neck/bridge?

@shiggypoo 7 лет назад

The top is the bridge volume, middle is neck volume and the bottom is a master tone.

@iMETTI 7 лет назад

I have that on my GH600 as well and i read that it is for "Rolling" of the volume on the bridge pickup

@ABLYamimash3 7 лет назад

Rob, you're right about the cleans - they are lovely.

@IndrajeetPala 7 лет назад

Rob you're a genius! Your experience with guitars and pickups is amazing :D

@ErraticFaith 4 года назад

Lol and 2 years later he's been shamed by Riffcity and exposed on RU-vid, then fired by Andertons. Hilarious.

@donkarnage6032 7 лет назад

Blind Tubescreamer test. Spot the real tubescreamer. There are plenty of pedals do make this one interesting.

@hybridmoments82 4 года назад

My face was just melted off and I just came to hear a pickup. Thank you, sir.

@RandyP9890 7 лет назад

I listened along while in the car on the drive to work so I couldn't watch. And I had no clue which was which. I could hear some slight difference but didn't have a clue which I was hearing at a given time. Hats off to you Chappers for knowing instantly what you were playing.

@darkmind9244 7 лет назад

rob has magic ears hope they are insured

@Redpipe327 7 лет назад

if you put a compressor in front of the blue one would sound really similar to the black one.

@Rolf_D 7 лет назад

The active Pickups have a lower output impedance and therefore they sound, in a way, like a pair of passive pickups with a buffer behind!

@tonytiger2192 6 лет назад

What I like about this video is that it demonstrates so well how all kinds of folks can enjoy guitars, playing guitar and making music together, from double-decade road musicians to weekend warriors.

@rasputinsbeard3899 7 лет назад

It would have been interesting to try different EMG pickups, such as the 57/66 or EMG-X. Both of these have a greater dynamic range, and act a little more passive-y.

@JimCyanide 7 лет назад

I think it also would have been interesting to use the Nazgul/Sentient set or a similar high output passive set to see if that would affect their ability to distinguish between them.

@KingBlonde 7 лет назад

Completely sincere question here, what's the point of the extra hassle of a battery if your actives are going to sound passive anyway?

@PursuitSk8 7 лет назад

f u n k j u n k . n e t they'd have a few tonal qualities like passives. it'd still be an active and sound like such. imo actives sound more digital/sterile than passives, but they are great in lots of ways so bridging that gap isn't the worst idea

@natewilliams250 7 лет назад

Rasputin's Beard aren't the 57/66 passive pickups?

@sin2Pi 7 лет назад

Nope. They're actives, as well as the recent Retro Active series, the 55 & 77.

@TheSaintberzerker 7 лет назад

I just can't stand worrying about the damn batteries.

@adambickford8720 7 лет назад

Yeah, sometimes you just lose track of 2 years.

@eyeofamon 6 лет назад

Having to solder on a new battery clip because the old one got eaten by the Green Death is a good reminder.

@Bagledog5000 6 лет назад

One less hassle to worry about. Sure it may take two years for a battery to die as some folks said. Then again, it may take two weeks or if you forget to unplug your guitar, no sound for you! But either way the less to go wrong the better imo.

@fynnjordan948 6 лет назад

Jackie I

@rtxf 6 лет назад

Jackie and I think it makes it feel more artificial and fake which ruins the concept of electric guitar for me.

@ThrashingBasskill 6 лет назад

Rob is like the Drummer in the Band, that can never shut up while others trying to adjust their instrument...

@sicknastyflipmaster7 7 лет назад

Whoever edited this video is a genius. Hilarious

@wooferdevlin3571 7 лет назад

active sound compressed. on clean, the spank is subdued. I've a set on Epi 7str. used for djent stuff- the EMGs clean up the chaos. Rob's spot on- each has an application.

@indiumas7856 7 лет назад

woofer devlin ich a

@tb___8218 7 лет назад

Should have included a better range of active and passive pickups - EMG and other brands also make active single-coils, P-90s and other humbuckers. Hot humbuckers tend to sound rather same-y at times, especially under high gain.

@DatBrit7 7 лет назад

Great to see those guitars being played. I own a black and gold Ltd ES-1000 guitar with active EMGs and is one of the most beautiful and most versatile guitars I know of. Really surprised me when I played it in the shop! Went to buy a Les Paul or a Telecaster, played it while waiting for the guy to get one out of the warehouse and instantly fell in love with it! Seriously underrated! The mother of pearl on it is stunning too!

@Iprodeltaelite 7 лет назад

Props for the editor. Just enough funny edits to make it enjoyable and not obnoxious

@SoundAuthor 7 лет назад

Chappers and The Captain: "Live Without Your Eyes"

@RobChappers 7 лет назад

Sound Author Ha ha that could be a thing!!

@zanzibarattache4545 7 лет назад

Active v passive is too easy. I'd like to see a blind test of hide v modern glued lp's, heavy relic v non-relic strats, real v clone paf's. These are all things that some folks claim affect tone, but there is little or no data published to support the claims.

@haf816r 7 лет назад

Nathan Wilkins great thought! I'd like to hear r see that one!

@jspinks2388 7 лет назад

It is man some say quite noticeable, there's a tiny preamp/boost circuit there involved.

@guitarFlownimo 7 лет назад

Rob really is good in describing the difference between the pickups, he nails it, on point. great!!!!

@ryanwilson5936 7 лет назад

Man, you can see Cpt's soul die a little bit when Chappers basically calls him just a salesman.

@jm71681 7 лет назад

All you have to do is dig in and you'll hear the difference immediately XD The EMGs are SO much more "immediate" in terms of attack. I loved that about them, but they just don't give you as many sound options as a typical four-conductor pickup.

@sluggdiddyyddidgguls 5 лет назад

If that were actually true..there would be no way that so many prominent guitar players choose them over passives. I get that there is a difference, but that is more about the selection of the active pickup and settings on it, the give away I think rob was actually listening for was the difference in output volume..to me that was the only glaring difference.

@hailhydrazine4938 7 лет назад

i feel that the eq/voicing rather than the "activeness" of the pickups will give it away, emg 81 is has just such a distinctive "emgness" to it

@charlesedwards6390 7 лет назад

Epic quote: "Well, I got a lot of gains bro." ~ Robert Chapman

@proteus2103 7 лет назад

The active pickups slam the front end of whatever amp they're plugged into. I like em both!

@joshgamesful 7 лет назад

I had my eyes open but it was easy to tell that the emgs we're emgs and the same with passive

@styx85 7 лет назад

ya, they look totally diffrent. ez

@Magmoormaster 6 лет назад

IDK how the hell you get so much sustain. I can never get any guitar to sustain into feedback like that.

@leewhitworth9142 3 года назад

Volume ;)

@muhears7732 7 лет назад

This is actually a really good demonstration of why its important that you isolate variables. I think Rob had this nailed from the gate but Lee was very interested in keeping up with the context clues- which guitar was being played at what time- which indicates he wasn't really able to tell the difference by tone alone, but needed something else to inform his decision. If you claim a certain variable makes a difference in tone, then if that is to be credible, you have to be able to use your ears to *ACCURATELY IDENTIFY* said differential without anything else informing your decision. What we see here from Lee is an example of economized guesswork, which indicates his preexisting beliefs about active vs passive may not be entirely rational.

@christianmonteith8568 7 лет назад

These videos just keep getting better and better. Love the editing jokes. Great stuff!

@ericvalverderosado2046 6 лет назад

Actives= no even a noise 😍

@sciencetypeperson2401 7 лет назад

I'm not an EMG hater,and in fact I've owned several guitars with the 81/85 combo. That said, this video pretty much confirms all of the stereotypes of EMG pickups: they just had a cold and sterile sound when compared to the passives.

@aliensporebomb 7 лет назад

If I'd done the test I would have set the tone control on the EMG set back to two thirds or between two thirds and 10 whereas with the passives I've had them set to have tone on 10. It would be hard to tell then.

@kaliensmashingatoms Год назад

This video is freaking funny. It is overly obvious the difference between guitars. The dude with the green shirt he knows what he's talking about. I have EMGs and all my guitars. 81 and 85

@Zuhlsmann1 7 лет назад

Rob has this on lock down!!! Personally I found the difference more apparent with distorted tones.

@beejay1966 7 лет назад

Did Rob get dressed with the blindfold on ?

@chadkoons 7 лет назад

Love this channel, it never fails to make me happy. Life is full of stress and trouble, your vids seem to make it better. :) Thanks!

@t-bagbagwell1327 4 года назад

As an air guitar expert I’d say i loved both active and passive pickups.

@kenwinston2245 6 лет назад

I love their humanity... purely by ear, they can't tell. Neither can we. Hesitating, guessing, second guessing, rationalizing. Get what you want, get what you love. Your personality is what shines through, these guys are great 😃

@sanderhoogeland9161 Год назад

I’m pretty sure Rob could tell almost immediately. I also did hear a difference.

@austinm419 7 лет назад

Interesting the active pickup harmonic was an octave higher than the passive.

@dragchainreaction 5 лет назад

Austin Mann might have to test this

@flips220 7 лет назад

I don't really care much for the argument about active pickups being cold and sterile, no dynamics, yadda yadda. I think they can sound just as good as anything else in the right context, depending on how the set is spec'd out. I just don't like active pickups because I don't like having to deal with batteries in my guitar. 😝

@misterknightowlandco 7 лет назад

I love how politely Chappers explained to Lee how he knew which was which at the end. He basically said "Im a touring musician and your a fucking salesman that's how I knew" but ever so politely to where I almost didn't pick up on the insult lol.

@RODE2112 6 лет назад

The pick flip @ 16:00 kills me!! Awesome video, though.

@areyouavinalaff 7 лет назад

Rob: hey Rabea, when you give us the guitars, give me the active and give Lee the passive, ok, that way I can win, I can shout active active active before Lee's even plugged his in and I can win and look great... ok, mate? Rabea: but that wouldn't be a fair test, it Rob: I'll give you £10 Rabea: £10? Rob: and longer solo spots at gigs. Rabea: £10? and longer solo spots at gigs? Rob: and I've got a snickers in my pocket, oh, it's a bit melted and squished... here it's yours. Deal?

@EmbarrassedComposer 7 лет назад

Also helps that rob was an esp artist maybe?

@RobChappers 7 лет назад

glyn humphreys Ha ha yep

@jdr214 7 лет назад

Rob Chapman aren't you a seymour duncan artist now? So you've covered the spectrum

@ExplosiveIron 7 лет назад

"I think I had the wrong nob" I was hoping Rob was going to say 'Lee you are a knob' oh well...my dreams are crushed

@OgamiItto70 3 года назад

Here's what I heard: The EMG's were brighter and compressed. The Seymour Duncans were warmer and dynamic. The slope on the EMG's volume pot was also different, it backed off more slowly at first, then dropped off suddenly, it sounded like. The passives' volume seemed more predictable; the sound dropped off at a more uniform rate throughout the sweep. I can understand guitarists developing a preference for either style of pickup--they both have their strengths and weaknesses. Someone who demands a quiet pickup with little noise and an even, dependable level will probably like the EMG's, especially if they like a bright tone. Someone who likes to fiddle with the volume knob a lot between rhythm and lead (or just in general, for various tones) will probably go for the passives, especially if they like a warmer, rounded-off timbre. As for me, in general, I would want a passive guitar for recording and maybe informal jams and small-time gigs, and active for touring where you kind of never know what the quality is going to be of the electricity your rig is going to be required to work with.

@keshin_martin 7 лет назад

Can you do one of humbucker cover vs no cover?

@Sean1547 7 лет назад

Used pretty much every major active pickup brand going before becoming a passive pickup guy. Seymour Duncan Blackouts have great distorted tone while lacking somewhat the picking dynamics you get from passives, as well as having very nice cleans. EMGs less impressive distorted tone but great cleans again. Then I discovered Bareknuckle pickups.

@jeffarab4947 6 лет назад

True i had blackouts and i think they are real good better then emgs but the attack and stuff isnt bad. Passives have fuller tone and sound is alive

@TheScreamingFrog916 5 лет назад

Bareknuckle pickups, are those like the Mooseknuckle pickups?

@turbotunna3794 7 лет назад

Compression! It's all about compression with the actives.... they compress the signal while the passives don't. That's what Chappers can hear in an instant. Lol, I can't imagine how many pickups he's spent time really listening to in the last decade!

@wandr3r180 10 месяцев назад

Rob has to have the Guinness world record time playing guitar blind folded. He has too...

@CJLaw945 7 лет назад

Rob, it would be interesting to know if you watch all your videos back when they go up on RU-vid?

@RobChappers 7 лет назад

Music Ghost Yes I proof watch each video :-)

@asimchowdhury412 7 лет назад

got an a level maths exam tommorow why am i watching this

@mattjones8523 7 лет назад

Asim Chowdhury you did it because you needed to relax your brain a little bit, therefore making it easier to retain knowledge you were trying to cram in there. Hope the test went well.

@rajdeepganguli2274 7 лет назад

পড়াশুনা কর

@georgemoncur2000gmailcom 5 лет назад

how did you do

@bjdenil 5 лет назад

I loved Lee's response to not being able to tell them apart or even tell what guitar he was holding...

@soulisthegoal96 7 лет назад

I'll be honest, I wasn't quick enough to play along and whilst I could hear a difference, it didn't really feel "good" or "bad" to my ear. That said, I reckon I would have a VERY different experience playing them. Good video, and props to Lee for being honest about his biases. Good man.

@ArielsSmartyPants 7 лет назад

This is a challenge? Either I have exceptional hearing or it's so obvious as to be a non issue at least between these 2 guitars. I'm not an EMG hater, but I prefer passives.

@jonrichardson2905 7 лет назад

New video. Tell them it's active vs passive and then keep handing them the same guitar repeatedly

@JillandKevin Месяц назад

First, I play clean 99% of the time (Western Swing, Country, Jump Blues, Swing & OLD Blues, etc. Next, Rob Turner (CEO & owner @EMG) is a good friend (he's a drummer) and we played together regularly a few years ago ('till I moved to the Pacific Northwest), but since EMG's were for Metal or so I thought), I had never used them. I was building one of my early Turbocaster Tele-like guitars, and mentioned it to Rob. He said "Let me put pickups in it!" I said NO! I don't want hard rock pickups in it! He kept after me, so I finally said OK. He took it up to the factory in Santa Rosa (actually Petaluma back then), and his guys actually installed them in my guitar. He gave it back, and when I plugged it in, I was FLOORED! It was SO clean and articulate, with WONDERFUL tone thru my Deluxe Reverb, and my Blues Junior, AND my $79 Kustom practice amp!!! Turns out, they were prototypes for the T-52 Retro-Active Tele set that Rob cooked up with Vince Gill, using his famous '52 Tele! I've put EMG's in every Turbocaster Electric Guitars instrument I've build since, along with every acoustic, electric, and archtop I perform with. I also got to participate in the development of the new JMaster series pickups for Jazzmaster guitars, using prototypes for about a year and a half, and then production models since, in my TJM Deluxe and TJM Deluxe Hollow models (I'm now performing with TJM #5 now)! I still haven't played ANY passive pickups that measure up to the EMG's!

@gearaddictclimber2524 6 лет назад

at 7:00, Rob was KILLIN IT! love your videos, thanks for supplying steady information and fun!

@paddyd5416 7 лет назад

Damn Rob, nice pants! :D

@davidwilsonjr6889 7 лет назад

Should rename these videos to: "goggle guess" (The double G)

@dcflake5645 7 лет назад

Finally, ESP gets some love. I own two with Actives and to be honest they do lack versatility but are required for the industrial metal sound eg Rammstein.

@christophergregory1205 6 лет назад

Captain struggling with the knobs had me dying. XD

@Rooster7six 7 лет назад

should have used the EMG 57\66 instead of the old ass 81. Probably easier to tell

@stratmanuk 7 лет назад

At the risk of being flamed, the passive knocks the crap out of the active in my opinion (insofar as my speakers can pick up from the video), it's the difference between a processed Kraft cheese slice and a full on Blue Stilton! Besides, passive were/are the choice of all my guitar heroes, EVH, RR, Nuno, EJ etc, who fights the active corner? Kirk Hammett LMAO!

@Arkery 7 лет назад

Kirt Hammet Mark Knopler (so spelled wrong lol) David Gilmour, and many many Jazz players.) If you're after super clear cleans EMGs are the way to go in terms of clarity and cleaness. Drive is where I feel passives win out, actives kinda compress the sound and that makes some people feel like they are lifeless. To each there own though, Whatver makes you rock right?!

@thegypsykidsband6044 7 лет назад

its because they compress everything at the start, even for a clean tone. My philosophy, (which i am not saying is right or wrong, just another perspective) is that I'd rather have the most open sound to start with, and be able to vary or increase my compression via pedals and amps.

@likeanuuk6612 7 лет назад

+stratmanuk not much risk of getting flamed when you say the most popular opinion. though really, when you say all your heroes use passive, its not that fair of a point because actives are much rarer, so statistically of course more guitarists you like will use them.

@cartenmcliam 7 лет назад

Sad but True, isolated guitar track. Enough said.

@JohnNT 7 лет назад

David Gilmour and Mark Knopfler used EMG's for electrical reasons though, not because they preferred the tone of them. Playing huge arenas with lasers and massive cable lengths back in the 80's made regular singlecoils too noisy. Given the option they both use passives, which is why in most pictures you see of them they're using passives. I use EMG SA's in my main guitar so I don't hate them, but giving them credit for the super-clean tones of Gilmour and Knopfler is just misinformation. They're not that clear nor clean in my experience and the tones you love from Floyd and Dire Straits records were most likely made with passive singlecoils.