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@greevar 3 года назад

You can play literally anything on active pickups. The pickup selector, volume, and tone knobs are there for a reason. The majority of your tone is the amp tone circuit, speakers, and cabinet.

@antoineleedolliole7549 6 месяцев назад

Agreed, I had to buckle down and just listen to which frequency band each knob affected. There's still a difference between pickups and they are totally different beasts. I can get a lot of tones out of my emg pups. However, I favor my Samshin Korean shredder passive pups because everyone else has actives already and it works well for tonal separation.

@DirtyTractorDr 4 года назад

I put EMG single coil style in my strat for high gain, and they are actually way better for clean or lower gain sounds.

@thisdyingsoul76 4 года назад

Buddy Guy used EMG’s for blues for a while. Also, David Gilmour used them in the 90’s and 2000’s with Pink Floyd. Seen a lot of co7ntry guys use them too.

@maxmustardman298 4 года назад

Lukather plays emg, that should tell you everything you need to know

@Stringprodigy 3 года назад

lol not at all

@angusorvid8840 3 года назад

He played EMG for years, then went to DiMarzio with his signature Transition set, and now uses Ernie Ball/Music Man designed pups on his new Luke.

@Stringprodigy 3 года назад

@@danaeverhart6487 nonsense

@Stringprodigy 3 года назад

@@danaeverhart6487 Lol you suck

@PageandPlant4Life 2 года назад

yeah it tells me i don't want em

@chrisgrabowski2678 4 года назад

It's cool you're doing an EMG video. I used to play a semi-hollow guitar with an EMG active 81 or 85. I loved it. That sucker cut through for leads like a laser. That was my most favorite lead tone I've ever had. Btw, not once did I have a feedback issue on stage. I was playing rockabilly, classic rock, Johnny Cash, Waylon, etc...Here's another cool part about the story. After ordering the pickup, one of the top guys at EMG calls me 2x to make sure I'm making the right pickup decision. He wanted to know what type of guitar it was going in, do I play lead (mostly rhythm then), etc... He actually thought I should try a different pickup or two based on what I was really looking for. I was a bit stubborn instead listening to a man that knows his product. So I got my pickup and he actually called me (the 3x) months later to see how it worked out. I played it for a few years and then sold it. Due to an injury, the guitar was just to heavy for me. The pickup didn't remind me of heavy metal. I used a Fender Super Champ XD amp at the time. Oh and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead was using them in the '80s.

@Canabai 4 года назад

GRATS Robin! I'm sure these will be awesome!

@jamesascher8147 Год назад

I have an Ibanez RG with emg 81/85 and I dont play metal but i love metal. I find these pickups to have a beautiful range of tones and I use them to record a variety of different music styles. On another note, I enjoy your videos and I appreciate your open-mindedness and chill approach.

@DragonofLimerick 4 года назад

It definitely looks so cool! Congrats Robin!! Enjoy the pickups.

@woodward_alan 4 года назад

This was a great vid. Thanks for the discussion on emgs

@DMSProduktions 4 года назад

You're right Dyl, the AMP makes the most difference to the sound of an electric guitar than the actual pick up (apart from sound foot print) It is better to have a reasonably good amp and speakers than a good guitar. A GOOD amp will make even the cheapest guitar sound half decent, but a crappy sounding amp will make ANY guitar, even a $XXXXK's guitar sound like cheap crap!

@DMSProduktions 3 года назад

@Chief Thundercock Yup!

@karengayle9331 4 года назад

I agree with you. With pedals and amps and playing style, strings ect. ect. You can find many styles, just have fun.

@TahmidRahman 2 года назад

EMG81 is my personal favorite, don't know why... Its so much fun playing this 😎🔥

@fredchatham6680 4 года назад

Again I'll say I'm glad these repeat.

@JunkfoodZombieGuns 4 года назад

I Love my EMGs. I have quite a few guitars and a couple have EMGs. They are different than passives. They aren't tremendously versatile, but what they do, they do phenomenally well. I don't grab those guitars to play blues stuff, but they are pure thrash goodness. Any Testament album in the last 10-15 years or so, the guitar sounds killer.

@k.l.graham5860 4 года назад

Keep preaching the truth and debunking those myths. Letting people believe lies when the truth is right there has never made sense to me.

@michaelbaker5547 4 года назад

Your relentless honesty is rare (nowadays) and highly admirable. I have a Warmoth strat that I built with an EMG Vince Gill signature model loaded pickguard (and I don’t even like country), and one of the two tone knobs shapes the sound from single coil “flavor” to humbucker, and I’m really happy with the pickups and tonal variety I can get out of this strat. It’s way more tonally diverse than the American Standard Strat I sold in order to buy parts for the Warmoth build. One annoying thing about active pickups is you always have to remember to unplug the cord from the guitar or else the battery will drain until it runs out of juice. All that said, genuine single coils are great too and should never disappear.

@mariushebnes5951 4 года назад

I was thinking about what you said like 2 days ago! I said to myself like «tone people are so stupid. Its not only the guitar that makes the tone. They get so caught up in the guitar that they forget amp, pedals, etc.» and here you come and say it out loud! Thanks!

@christopher.k.guitar 2 года назад

Great video man 👍

@XlouietheflyX 4 года назад

The speaker and cabinet design have as much impact as the amplifier or the pickups. Also whatever pedals you go through of course!

@koskenkorva2340 Год назад

Hello Dylan ! Your take on flavors is spot on ! Some like it salty , some like it sweet ! And the cravings can be different at different times. ;)

@hoytdotblohm 4 года назад

I have gone on a major guitar buying spree lately, mostly because I want them, but I have bought several types that I never had interest in simply for the pickup style. I want to make pedals and pickups and I wanted to be able to just pick up a certain style and see what it sounds like. The amp and cab are the final and loudest voice but the flavors added along the way are what help us define ourselves.

@dsholt 2 года назад

Before I knew anything about guitars I bought a strat with EMGs in it and still love the tone to this day. It definitely does something different than a vintage strat pickup, but I think they're very versatile.

@bigjohnsgmail 4 года назад

While following through on future fascination with emg pickups swap the 81 to the neck and the 85 to the bridge. It's really killer in Les Pauls

@IIImobiusIII Год назад

I even have a floating Jazz EMG on a Jazzbox. Fantastic.

@shred5 2 года назад

I was never really a big fan of classic EMGs except for extreme heavy music personally, but I find the EMG single coils are great and very versatile.

@ionianblue31 2 года назад

Some great points here. And I really liked the sound samples. Reminds me of a clip of something Mikio Fujioka did once. He had this ESP 7-string, his signature model. Some thing, a Kemper. But he was running them with a slight breakup. Sounded great. Between that and your clips here, I’ll never have to wonder of EMGs do cleans well. Lol Since pickups tend to emphasis some frequencies, wouldn’t that be why some people think of actives as being “sterile”? Like, they just haven’t heard pickups with that full a range if that makes any sense? Sorry for the lack of articulation. I’m still waiting for the caffeine to kick in. Lol

@puddingkatapult 4 года назад

A compromise between active and passive pickups would be a passive pickup circuit with an external preamp (like the Kemo MO40N) that you can just bypass if it's not needed. This costs almost nothing and preserves the original tone circuit.

@konkonidaris8469 4 года назад

I enjoy your videos Dylan, you have an easygoing way of presenting technical information, which is refreshing. I personally haven't used EMGs but that is more due to spending most of my time on an acoustic archtop and hardly ever plugging in my solid body axes. I once told a friend that the exact composition of his pickups wasn't that big component to his overall tone and to think of his complete signal chain in his overall tone... I now feel somewhat vindicated with my advice.

@daveduffy2823 4 года назад

You are spot on. The amp shapes the sound. That is why I tell people when buying an electric guitar, match it with an amp that brings out its character.

@wally-001 3 года назад

Bro I play through a JVM. AMAZING amp. Amy decent guitar sounds amazing through it. It's so versatile. I recently bought a Les Paul Classic and was embarrassed at band practice at how bad it sounded when plugging it in

@chrisparker5278 4 года назад

My bass’s Blackouts work with all styles of music I love. They kill it playing metal and smooth down to pop with the onboard EQ.

@Patrick-857 2 года назад

Active is a no brainer for bass imo. For guitars I think it depends a lot more on what you're doing, but to me, actives in a bass has almost no downsides.

@chrisparker5278 2 года назад

@@Patrick-857 actives have a lot of variability between designs. I once tried all EMG soap bars - PJ was my favourite combination. Seymour Duncan blackouts sound utterly different (and better) than the EMG CS pickups they are similar to.

@drittal 4 года назад

Dude, love me that Prong album. I like “Test” too!

@rottalmusik6563 4 года назад

drittal yea prong is awesome in general🤘

@rowlandstraylight 4 года назад

EMGs are a bit more than wire wrapped around magnets, there's an op-amp in differential mode, so instead of a low-pass behaviour like a conventional pickup, in something like an EMG 81, you get a massive mid hump peaking at about 750Hz. Looks a lot like running through a tube screamer with the volume up and the drive down. They work, because the massive mid hump sounds almost jazzy clean and into a lot of distortion you have the midrange grind without the bass going flubby or the highs going too shrill. It's going to sound a lot like you have a tubescreamer other mid boost in there. And it does a specific thing. It's very hard to get a crunch tone that plays well with other guitars as you need all the gain to smash that mid hump into the EQ shape of the amp (or a distortion pedal). If you have a lot of EQ to hand you can make EMGs do other sounds, but it's easier to take something with a flat response out to a sane cutoff and add a a tubescreamer or a klon clone when you want that kind of grind than it is to take that mid hump out with a graphic EQ. I do keep a cheap LP copy around with an EMG 81 in the bridge for moments of stupidity though.

@TheFrankHuda 3 года назад

Dylan spits that hot fire.

@voodoocustompickups2547 4 года назад

I personally don't like EMGs but not for the typical reasons. I prefer the Seymour Duncan Blackouts for actives. They have more low end presence.

@JavierPwns 11 месяцев назад

Have fun getting buried in the mix

@Patrick-857 Месяц назад

That's great in your bedroom. Not when you need to fit into a mix, and low end is the enemy of a tight high gain sound. That being said, blackouts sound good to me.

@cchavez248 Год назад

Lol, for just a moment I thought you were wearing an orange tie! 😁

@darthdurkelthewise320 3 года назад

Such great advice here 👍🏻 So many things impact tone. A player’s fingers have more impact than anything and this pickup argument has always cracked me up. If Billy Gibbons hands you his guitar you won’t sound anything like him. However, I guarantee you that Billy could pluck anything with a string on it and it’s gonna sound like Billy Gibbons. I’m a metal and jazz guy and I use the tried and true EMG 81 in an ESP M1 and it works for both. Even my LP has EMGs in it and I love it. Part of the problem in my world (metalhead world), is that everyone wants to grab an edge but most, not all seek the same few heads, guitars, and pickups, wonder why brutal metal magic isn’t happening, and then still need affirmation that what they have is the ultimate in metal tone. The reality is that a guitar only puts out what you give it, every single time but all the “best” gear won’t do anything for you that your playing won’t do first.

@mark64tanner 4 года назад

Amen Brother ✌ Only reason I don't use EMG's is I can't be stuffed replacing Batteries 😉 As an Audio engineer I love them. That V is looking real good. Got an old LTD v200 here that I'm going to re-work soon, will be interesting to see what the timber under the Black finish looks like. LOL, the "Sometimes" comment, man, that's why I've got a "Load" of guitars, what I tell myself anyway 😉 Take care bud ✌

@lukeanderson326 4 года назад

If you unplug your guitar while you are not playing batteries can last for years

@LeMans512 4 года назад

“Mojo in a can”. Brilliant. Wm. Shakespeare couldn’t have said it better

@NoQuadsNoMasters Год назад

A Duncan nazgûl makes every guitar sound the same as well, and I never hear anyone talk about that. I hated active pups until I bought a guitar with ahb-1’s in it with the intention of changing them…. Then loved them. Play and respond wayyyy different than expected. I may not want a set of 81’s now, but I am way more willing to have more blackouts or 57/66’s. Great video

@Supperconductor 4 года назад

I have EMG DG-20 and love them. I’m probably going to get the Retroactive Fat 55 set next.

@joelawson33 4 года назад

I switched to bass from guitar a year ago and I can say I like passive pickups better on bass. Of 25 years of playing guitar I never owned a guitar with active pickups. With my basses, I own a sr300 which is passive pickups with a preamp, but I own a Rogue with a pj setup all passive and it is more powerful sounding than the sr300 with a preamp. I don't know if anyone has had a similar experience, but this has been mine.

@rjohnson1690 4 года назад

Quattros, I dig it. I’m a VW/Porsche fanatic myself.

@docf.n.t.2310 Год назад

I'm blown away by how you avoid mentioning the biggest tone change of them all,... the SPEAKERS !!!! Same guitar, same pickups, same amp, even same settings. Change the speakers 20 times, it will sound like 20 different rigs !!!!

@littlebritain64 3 года назад

Hi, love the videos You upload. I am wondering if there are some cheaper good substitutes for my Chinacaster...😄

@EWT423 4 года назад

I have got emg 81/85 for 15 years in my les Paul and for 10 years, they were my favorites. Now I'm getting older my taste has changed and I like the seymour duncan jazz + jb combined or dimarzio tone zone + air hb. The passive pickups are working better with tube amps and get more character out of it. The advantage of the emgs is, that they sound good in every guitar. I ve got 3 guitars with emg 81/85 and sold 2 of them, because they sound like my les paul but had a worse playability. If I really want to change my sound, I would buy another speaker. Price is nearly the same for one speaker and one good pickup but the difference is more noticeable than with another pickup. I think in supervision every part in the signal chain has to be good quality to get a nice tone out of the material. Correct wiring is really important too and not as easy as it sounds at first.

@michaeljohnclark4782 4 года назад

I get it, I read something that made me think along those lines. It said if you don't have that, two that add up to that value will work. That made me think, there's my room, for my sound. I have broken three norm's with a 10 position switch, I like four of 7 so far. With three yet to be,

@ricknokes4181 4 года назад

Love the education I’m getting.🦅

@troyl200 4 года назад

You can play anything on EMGs. Blues, jazz, classical, impressionism, baroque, samba... Just roll back volume and tone then hit the bridge for non harsh highs. Roll up tone with volume still rolled back, then go to neck for definitive lows.

@rahman49 2 года назад

Love my guitar with EMGs.

@metaldreams3595 3 года назад

you are right brother

@lowberg9936 4 года назад

Funny you mentioned discovering Rammstein in the Vin Diesel xXx movie. That's how myself and my buddies discovered them as kids and since then we've traveled to see them 3-4x whenever they come to North America hahha.

@somebodyelseuk Год назад

Never played metal in my life. I've been using EMGs since the mid '80s. I've two guitars with them. I also use a Mesa Triaxis. :) I don't use the EMGs all the time, but... they were good enough for Gilmour to use from the mid '80s until only a few years ago. Love the name, by the way. I had an Audi Quattro about 25 years back.

@grandesguitarristas635 4 года назад

Hi Dylan. Can you please make a video explaining what exactly does the contour knob in an amp and the differenrence with the middle control? I've always had that question unsolved. Thanks a lot!!

@Leo_ofRedKeep 4 года назад

I have been saying for years that guitar pick-ups "shine" through their flaws, through the way they alter the frequency range of what the strings generate. People mistake personality for quality (unless they use the word in its original descriptive meaning , which no one does) and like holes in the frequency response the same way they like scratches on a relic'd guitar. A pick-up without such holes, with a flatter, broader frequency response, removes that personality to let you hear the strings more. It removes the guitar from the sound shaping system, making them "sound all the same" because they no longer "sound" at all. It doesn't have charm, it's just a better tool.

@rboertchristofaro3586 3 года назад

I like active pickups I use seymour duncan blackouts ahb-2b/ahb-1n with cts's 25k pot's and pure tone full contact output jack

@matsloman7838 4 года назад

I think that the biggest difference between active pickups and passive pickups is the fact that there are a buffer between the pickup and the volume/tone circuit. I think that if you take any passive pickup and place a buffer circuit (just op-amp with gain 1.0) right after the pickup (using only one pickup and no volume / tone circuit, just the pickup) you get a guitar that acts more like a guitar with active pickups than a guitar with passive pickup. That would be a cool experiment to do. You will of course get different tones depending on the pickups resonance peak but will react like a active pickup otherwise. The thing with passive pickups sounds / acts different in different guitars is probable to a high degree depending on the passive volume/tone circuit and on the component tolerances. If you have an active pickup those differences affects the tone much less. That is my thoughts, it would be cool to test that. I have not made any calculations but my intuition tells me that I'm on the right track.

@seanbarker6478 4 года назад

Dave Gilmore from pink Floyd uses EMG's. I easily fall into static thinking. So I do try to question my prejudices at times! Lol

@michalmlynaric4706 Год назад

Good reference to all purists and tone experts; David Gilmour and Mark Knopfler played EMGs in the 80' and 90'. Others like Jeff Beck - used to play on noiseless pickups, Andy Timmons is playing on ceramic minihumbuckers. All ot them chose those pickups by some reason... at the end all of them still sound incredible.

@stringspicksandfiddlestick6388 4 года назад

I own three EMG equipped guitars. One of them is a Godin Redline One. It has one EMG 81, one volume knob and a 9 volt battery. For some reason it sounds downright twangy with the volume rolled off.

@Bliggick 4 года назад

Although I have never played a guitar with EMGs I played with a couple of guitar players in the 1990s for a number of years and they both played guitars with EMGs to begin with. They both eventually switched to Strats, one with Lace Sensors, the other with stock American Standard single coils. I can only speak from my own experience, but the difference was like night and day, and for the better. To my ears now their playing sounded way more dynamic and sweet and clear, when before it was compressed with too many highs and lows constantly mixed together. That being said, we were playing basically classic rock and I think EMGs would be a good choice for a high gain sound for metal.

@xanhteps648 3 года назад

I felt like many about emg. Went to g.c. one day looked at a zakk wylde epi lp. I like big necks and maple necks figured I could get a few bucks for the emgs. But I liked them when I put familiar settings on the amp. I ended up buying a Dean with 808s instead. And the worst thing emg does is the buffer. But if you have one boss pedal on the floor you shouldn't say boo about emg. Now the 'one more thing to go wrong' argument about the batteries is still super valid. I want one of your vintage tele bridge pickups bad. I need a some alnico 2 in my life.

@billfrost4603 4 года назад

Only issue I had with active pups was the battery issue. Didn't want to have to constantly change batteries. Solved that problem when I installed Fishman fluence classics. Also installed their battery pack which can last up to 250 to 300 hours. Absolutely loving these pups. Fishman also makes more universal battery packs.

@lukeanderson326 4 года назад

If you unplug when you're not playing the batteries can last for years.

@daniloberserk 6 месяцев назад

EMGs will last 1000 hours with alkaline 9V... Fishman is a lot more power hungry since they basically has active eq going on. If you REALLY want eq, just use an eq pedal I guess.

@Ltdjl600-rg8ph 10 месяцев назад

True - More bands I like play active than passive. Personally, I had my anti emg era- actually more of a snob era-where I only owned Gibsons, PRS, USA fender. It's all in the past now, though. Currently I only have 2 ltd's w actives.

@robertcdrake5453 2 года назад

Nice watch trying different pickups but I have to learn to put them in emgs are sodderless but great you can use them for everything 🤓

@timjones9727 2 года назад

It wasn’t just metal of course. Mark Knopfler, Yes Mr K himself used EMG’s from the late 80’s ‘till the mid 90’s!! His famous Pensa is EMG loaded.

@corneliuscrewe677 4 года назад

I came in here with guns out all ready to let you have it about amps being way more important than pickups, and you went and said it first. Way to steal my thunder, dude 😆👍 Having said that, I prefer vintage voiced pickups (P90’s, If I’m forced to pick one) because that’s what works best for my preferred rigs and tone. I have a couple of EMG guitars, though. Nothing wrong with them.

@57stratkat Год назад

The newer X series offerings (alnico) sound more like traditional passive pickups and still do the high gain thing very well. I think they sound great and I love not hearing the buzz.

@daniloberserk 6 месяцев назад

The Retro Active series is more "passive" sound IMO. The X series just has more headroom compared to traditional EMGs.

@TheAxe4Ever 4 года назад

Ugh! Now I couldn’t own a set of the new blade pickups because all I would think of is Leather Tuscadaro. You know. Suzi Quatro. 😂 Just messin’ with ya! Congrats to the winner!

@lukeanderson326 4 года назад

Now. Take that exact same set of EMGs and put them in a guitar made of different wood. It will answer the tonewood debate!

@gregorwalton 4 года назад

Playing high gain the amp and speakers pretty much set the tone. Example: I recently recorded a track with the lead guitar on one side and a harmony line on the other side played on a Minimoog through a high gain amp. Nobody could tell they weren't both guitars

@vhollund 4 года назад

Very good point Which underlines the fact that heavy metal is not a good indicator for guitar tone In addition i think Dylan plays through an amp simulation? Not good To hear the tone: A slightly crunchy / dirty-clean tube amp will reveal it right away if playing with a minimum of skill.

@shovington67 4 года назад

I'm a little more interested and partial too the few different onboard preamps that pickup companies sell. Some of them really do the trick for juicing up that output.

@jrosner6123 Год назад

EMGs are perfectly fine for whatever- a wide open blank canvas, the player dials in what they want.

@dylanvogel7124 2 года назад

I just got a 81 for my Kramer I’m so fucking pumped to throw it in and play some 80s thrash with it

@jesperbc 4 года назад

I agree. EMG's are just a flavor. I've replaced EMG's with passive pickups in three guitars, and they're all better sounding guitars for it, but I recently bought a Fender Jim Root Tele with EMG's in it (why do all the cool metal guitars come stock with EMG's?!), and I haven't had the will to replace them yet, 'cause just amazing for the kind of music a Jim Root Tele is made for playing. Super tight, aggressive and cutting. I might just end up leaving them in there this time. Cleans are kind of bland, but still very usable. With high gain they're amazing.

@csmith29581 3 года назад

I have the EMG 57/66tw set in my eclipse. I hate that they will not clean up when lowering the volume. I also have weird volume jumps when playing clean tones. I had to bottom out the pickups in the cavity to remedy this situation. The pickups do sound great when either gained out or super clean so I'm torn on what to do.

@ronbryant2905 3 года назад

EMG pickups do sound different in different guitars, or at least 85s 89s SA and S models do. I'm not an 81 fan but Love the others. Take an 85 in a LP with mahogany and then put it in an Ash bodied strat while leaving the amp settings the same. Huge difference. But you and adjust the amp and make them sound similar. Warning EMGs will make more mistakes more apparent. You will have to play cleaner in my experience. I never noticed my sloppy muting during bends until I installed EMGs. But then I cleaned up my playing and fell in love.

@InsomniacMatt 2 года назад

I have the 81 60 set installed in my Ibanez. I went with that because I prefer the flavour of the 60 over the 85.

@JokerCat9 Год назад

The 60 has better clean tones

@lukeanderson326 4 года назад

Try an emg 60 neck pickup. Try hz passives run the Gambit of emg pickups. You will see their versatility!

@steefan2248 3 года назад

Nothing breeds more contempt for this world, than memories now formed.

@topfloorstudio2684 3 года назад

I have 7 guitars and only 1 has EMGs. I like a little of everything! Do you think shielding a guitar with EMGs is as beneficial as doing the copper shielding on a passive pup equipped guitar? Good video man.

@FabrizioPeretti 4 года назад

People who think emg pick ups sound bad probably never turned the tone knob a bit down. I love toto and steve lukather and i have a musicman luke 2, wich is plain simple a strat. EMGs sound amazing with that guitar, even a bit dark for my taste, and that's because the guitar sounds fenomenal by itself and those pickup reflect that. Put emg on a bad guitar they will reflect that as well

@dylandoge1627 4 года назад

Not everyone wants high output pickups. Also single coils sound better with raised pole pieces.

@radiohead102 4 года назад

Hi Dylan, I need your help. I have a Seymour Duncan cool rails pickup that is acting strange. It will be working fine one day then the next day it doesn't at all. I've rewired it a few times. Everytime I do, it works right away but then the next day, it doesn't. Today I noticed as I was pissed and ripping it out while my guitar was plugged in that it started working as soon as the blades touched the strings. Then I played it for awhile and it started to die out again, so I touched the blades to the strings and it worked again. Any thoughts on this strangeness?

@FairlyUnknown 4 года назад

That was a good name for the pickups. I like the decision. I feel the same way when it comes to guitar gear and people's preconceived notions of certain things. I'll always say to people to try something out themselves. If they try it and then they still don't like it, cool. That's perfectly fine and at least the opinion is no longer based on hearsay. People also often take suggestions and recommendations as absolute fact and in a binary way. For example, if a piece of gear, like EMGs, is recommended for X, Y, and Z, that doesn't mean it can _only_ do X, Y, and Z.

@GearOfDarkness 4 года назад

Hands down my fav active PUs is the 57/66 combo by EMG. No one seems to know them for some reason. The battery never bothered me. It takes a long time until it runs out and by buying two rechargeable ones you save money over time.

@bigjohnsgmail 4 года назад

Yeah all these guys keep saying I don't want to have to change the battery all the time! It lasts like a 1000 hours or something like that. If you just remember to unplug your guitar that's like 3 months playing 10 hours a day.

@billg5754 4 года назад

This guitar 1979 I had to get EMG due to hum. But 79 strat that defined hum.

@paristhalheimer 4 года назад

It drives me crazy when players determine that a genre is a tone or a guitar model. Example: Country = Telecaster. Or Strat = "blues" tone. When asks me what single coils should I get to get a good "blues" tone. Or that a Gibson Hollowbody is the only style to play jazz.

@Leo_ofRedKeep 4 года назад

Some people just want to fit in moulds.

@thekramer1097 4 года назад

@@Leo_ofRedKeep Humans love to do stereotypes on everything

@Leo_ofRedKeep 4 года назад

@@thekramer1097 Which is a useful thing. We keep similar things in common drawers so we remember where to find them. But some are just all too willing to be pure receivers of drawers they think others make.

@vhollund 4 года назад

Does that mean you don't care about pick up choice for playing blues? If you had the choice between P90s and active EMGs f ex, would your answer be that it doesn't matter?

@Leo_ofRedKeep 4 года назад

@@vhollund No it doesn't matter. The blues, like any other music style, is defined by the notes played, not by the way they sound.

@sireliot2149 2 года назад

I've tried active pickups in a viper 401 fm (can't remember, they might have been EMG's!) and I didn't love the sound or possibility of the battery going out. I also don't like the sound of an ibanez bass with cheap active pickups. Am I wrong to assume that the battery going out means it won't work? Sold the viper 401-fm, regretted it because of how well it played and how I could have sold it for a higher price if I had done more research and been patient. It didn't seem like the typical amps I had available worked with with active pickups.

@Hellraven1990 4 года назад

Hi Dylan! In some of your videos you were talking about a 'issue' that you keep hearing from guitar players - that guitar hums/buzzes while not touching the strings, and that this is not a real issue, because this is how guitar should work. But what about having a loud click when you do touch the strings or metal parts of guitar, is this something that could be fixed? So what I mean is, I loose contact with strings with both my hands, there's hum - ok, not a problem, but I touch the strings again and before humming quiets there's an audible pop which cuts through. In this example situation is not that realistic, because if you sort of let go of the playing all together, you'll probably turn the volume pot down as well. But this also happens when playing and, say, doing chord changes and loosing contact with strings for a moment.

@bryanxenob5566 4 года назад

What can you say about passive pick-ups that has the active features like EMG? Im planning to get either the EMG fat55 or the rev set

@mikezingone9471 5 месяцев назад

Are EMG pickups noiseless? Does anybody know? My old charvel 1988 has active pickups and I love them because they are noiseless and sound great. I’m looking at an LTD with EMG pickups.

@stephenpepper1790 4 года назад

Preach! Try a bunch of different stuff and trust your own ear and hands. Nobody knows your ear and your preferences better than you.

@Canabai 4 года назад

Ahhhhhh! You said White Lion! I Loved When The Children Cry and their version of Radar Love!

@Canabai 4 года назад

Don't Get me started on White Snake! Just..don't.

@Canabai 4 года назад

Also...the amp is the other half of an electric guitar. An acoustic gets it, almost, all built in but an electric...half is the guitar the other is your acoustic sound box or, the amp.

@Canabai 4 года назад

Love the upload! Can't wait for your input on mine!

@nurk_barry 4 года назад

When it comes to bass, active definitely makes the instrument more enjoyable for me to play because of the sound I can get, which affects how I play. You trade convenience (no batteries) for versatility if sound . For electric guitar I’d rather lose the versatility of active pickups for convenience . The battery /preamp is a dealbreaker for me on the 6-string. Active pups do sound good though. But I love the sound of passive humbuckers.

@JavaoftheLava 4 года назад

I tried some out on a friend's tele. Shit was good, but I never wanted to rout a space for the battery myself

@dawnpsy6663 2 года назад

More than the Amp, the speakers

@charlotteice5704 4 года назад

I don't use them but I consider getting them, because to me, it sounds like they can do really clean stuff nicely as well as super nasty (in a good way) distorted stuff. Or do they actually sound horrible clean and I just can't distinguish?

@0richbike 4 года назад

what you said.

@Steinstra-vj7wl 4 года назад

Gilmour (Pink Floyd) and Rothery (Marillion) use EMG live on Pulls and on All one Tonight. And on recordings too.

@vhollund 4 года назад

Back in the 80's

@charleswatt4397 4 года назад

EMG instructions tell you NOT to ground the strings. I think they still should be grounded but they do say not to.

@camarotrash 2 года назад

Given that nowadays there’s a whole universe of gear, pedals, and pickups to modify one’s instrument with, my motto has been the same for the 21 years I have been playing the guitar in earnest, and that is: buy the thing that was used on the song you like.