EMG 81 - "One trick pony"
Features- 9 volt active pickup which requires proprietary electronics to properly install. Includes pots for volume and tone as well as A battery snap and quick connect cables. Guitars used for e…
EMG 81 - "Not for the vintage tone snobs"
The EMG 81 is probably one of the company's best known pickups and is highly regarded by the metal community worldwide for its tightness, compression and output. I've tried it in many different guita…
EMG SA - "surprisingly awesome"
I Installed this pickup in the neck position of an ESP SC6 which has an alder body, maple neck, ebony fret board, and tune-o-matic bridge. My main amp is a framus cobra 100 watt tube amp and I someti…
EMG 85X - "A more natural 85"
Recently EMG started making pickups with the new X series preamp. This preamp was made to simulate the sound you get when you use an EMG pickup with the 18v mod. The 18v mod is something a lot of gui…
EMG 81X - "A more organic 81"
With the old EMG's people liked to do the 18v mod to them. The 18v mod lets you get a more organic sound with more headroom with the EMG pickups. Recently EMG started listening to the guitar players …
EMG SEHG - Nayoll's review
Before installing this pickup I had a lag power magnet and, to be true, I didn't notice too much difference to the Select. I'm very disappointed with this pickup. But you have to be crazy to expect …
EMG 808 - "The only way to keep your 8 string tight."
With all the new 8 strings on the market you can reasonably most of them are being used for metal. Before EMG started making pickups for 8 strings no one really knew how good an 8 string was supposed…
EMG 85 - "The 81's classy brother"
EMG pickups are active pickups. An active pickup is a pickup that requires and outside power source to operate. These pickups operate by using a preamp that is battery powered. With the battery power…
EMG ACS - Pat Vurden's review
translatedI have been using the Fvrier 14 (Valentine's Day gift requires ...). It is mounted on my 12 string. Installation is trs simply put the hole drilled by the jack. The rest are stuck on the battery bo…
EMG SL20 Steve Lukather - nyco_962's review
translatedMounted on a custom project one month ago, the sound is clear that both dreaded crunch or lead, the two provide simple distortion perfectly, the double lead is really terrible, no extraneous noise, t…
EMG H1 - f1vjt's review
translatedUsed for a month on a Les Paul guitars and two linden and spruce body ...... The sound is very flat and cold, no personality, it's going at warp, the harmonics are present, good bass to vibrate muc…
EMG HA - bagger's review
translatedHello, I tried it for a week on my Vigier Ultra. What I like most is it sounds like a SA and that it can be installed in place of a double very easily. What I find unfortunate is that its desi…
EMG SAV - tiep's review
translatedI use 2 SAV in the neck position and middle depusi about 6 months on my bent willow's top special, with a 81 in the bridge position not bad, quite versatile However, I find that these pickups hav…
EMG DG20 David Gilmour - pascal.stbe's review
translatedFor description, see the website EMG. I installed two days ago this kit on a Vigier Excalibur Supra with his own bland but I dcevait. Then, it's a vamp! The sound is poustouflant! A true sound of str…
EMG 81 - CautionHot's review
translatedI use it for one month on a Ltd EC1000 VBK and for 6 months on a Jackson RR24 apartennant to my brother. I had already tried various models (Gibson 500t, 498.496, EMG and Seymour Duncan Dimebucker…