Gave her a work over the other day! Certainly lost some of its “ Teleness” (more so in neck position)but everything is a compromise.
....but gained some "rockness" I assume! Always good in my book!!!!
Gave her a work over the other day! Certainly lost some of its “ Teleness” (more so in neck position)but everything is a compromise.
....but gained some "rockness" I assume! Always good in my book!!!!
Can you guys give me your feel and why you'd choose an active pickup, I never tried them : I see most metal players use them, but what's the point please ?
Having fitted EMG actives before they are "supposed" to feel tighter and more have a more responsive attack. The negative is they can sound a bit clinical.
Whilst the above is true, personally I don't find them that different to a high output non-active Humbucker. They do sound different but not chalk and cheese. Like most things, worth trying them out and it depends on how discerning you are...
They have the advantage of low impedance output as well so don't suffer so much with long cable lengths ( apparently), but on the flip side you have to monitor your batteries as they don't work without a battery. Battery drain is low so you don't have to change them often but that can be worse as you forget about them until its too late. I didn't have my battery go at a gig once...
Hope that helps ( I think its correct as not used the guitars with EMG's for many years - no reason other than just playing different guitars)...
Can you guys give me your feel and why you'd choose an active pickup, I never tried them : I see most metal players use them, but what's the point please ?
V8guitar summed it up nicely. As well as low impedance driving longer cables better you are also amplifying the signal right at source (before much pf the noise gets in) so you should get a better signal to noise ratio. Lots of people seem to see them as a Metal thing but some guy called Gilmour used them for a long time in his Strat and seemed to get an OK tone. Didn’t Knopfler have EMGs in his Pensa Suhr too?
I have EMG in two guitars. Musicman Luke II and a Tele I built myself. I like them both but don’t consider them night and day either.
V8guitar summed it up nicely. As well as low impedance driving longer cables better you are also amplifying the signal right at source (before much pf the noise gets in) so you should get a better signal to noise ratio. Lots of people seem to see them as a Metal thing but some guy called Gilmour used them for a long time in his Strat and seemed to get an OK tone. Didn’t Knopfler have EMGs in his Pensa Suhr too?
I have EMG in two guitars. Musicman Luke II and a Tele I built myself. I like them both but don’t consider them night and day either.
I had them in the ‘80s because Larry Carlton had them in his Valley Arts strat. My recollection is that they lacked dynamics but that’s from ages ago.
lack of dynamics, sounds clinical, batteries , OK I'm done folks, back to handwound PUs ! thx for the insight
I have never used actives, I hate the use of batteries.
I would think the better signal to noise is huge for high gain players.
I have been kicking around getting an Ibanez Tim Henson with Stainless Frets. This also has Fluence actives that you can select 10 different pickup configurations. The new magic of actives is having a ton of flexibility.
In the future, adding CPU processing means you can switch configs, do pickup modelling, etc. Not sure why this is not a thing already. Maybe it is, I dont read about actives since I never plan to use them.
Seymour Duncans HyperSwitch is another alternative that moves the active electronics to the switch instead of the pickups.
Now if they could only add some form of energy creation so I dont have to use batteries.
My latest build
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My latest build
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Wonderful neck
My latest build
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Black Paisely P90 Thinline, lacquer, wallpaper, finish by me
Really beautiful!
Sweetwater says I can show you my new G&L Tele in September. I hope in 2023 and not in 2024.
Always loved the AlDi Prism 😍
Can you guys give me your feel and why you'd choose an active pickup, I never tried them : I see most metal players use them, but what's the point please ?
I chose them for the exact reason the metal players use them, lowest possible noise. As others mentioned they aren’t the same as normal pickups for clean to overdriven tones, passive is king there. My normal Tele is simply to noisy when i really want to push the gain. If i had to only have one guitar (oh the horror!) it would have passive pickups.
As for the battery situation, is a bit of the pain on guitars without specific compartments, but they last 1500 hours, long as you unplug your cable its a long time between batteries! Theres also the ability to power them through the input jack using a stereo cable and breakout box, Im going to try it, hit them with 24v (they rated to 27) just for shizzles and giggles!
I made this DC . It will be my latest until I finish the one I am working on at present
Great Work Man
Great Work Man
Thank you!
That’s a nice piece of wood, and is that a cat bed doubling as a guitar stand?
That’s a nice piece of wood, and is that a cat bed doubling as a guitar stand?
Thank you!
That is a gym bench doubling as a cat rest (so she can hear my lovely playing) and stolen for a picture prop!
Thank you!
That is a gym bench doubling as a cat rest (so she can hear my lovely playing) and stolen for a picture prop!
Well at least she doesn’t use your Kemper as a bed, like mine has been known to on occasion!