[Arctodus]

Originally Posted by sakeido

No! They! Don't!
Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghhhhh

Prove it. The battery provides a small amount of juice to the pickup meaning the circuit is now live. The characteristics of the woods would become very minor as electricity doesn't translate wood too well. So in the end it would depend on bridge type, nut type, scale of the guitar and number of frets. If I'm wrong please tell me. I've never been a fan of active pickups for two reasons. 1. 9 volt batteries are freaking expensive. 2. Most active pickups to me notch "characteristics" out of the equation and usually sound sterile.

[sakeido]

Originally Posted by Arctodus

Prove it. The battery provides a small amount of juice to the pickup meaning the circuit is now live. The characteristics of the woods would become very minor as electricity doesn't translate wood too well. So in the end it would depend on bridge type, nut type, scale of the guitar and number of frets. If I'm wrong please tell me. I've never been a fan of active pickups for two reasons. 1. 9 volt batteries are freaking expensive. 2. Most active pickups to me notch "characteristics" out of the equation and usually sound sterile.

The battery only goes dead every 1000-3000 hours. They use barely any power at all... and that is an expense I will pay, because actives offer the tone I want. It is true that they are quite compressed sounding, and aren't as "wide open" and dynamic as a lot of passives are. But I like the compressed sound and the attack of an active pickup (which unfortunately can't be matched even by $300cad pickups like the Lundgren M7 - my own personal observation). They only apply an EQ to the pickup, just like a passive would. It just happens in a different way. The woods in the guitar do not become a moot point... I have very clearly noted a difference between every guitar with EMGs I have ever owned.

[Metal Ken]

Originally Posted by Arctodus

The dilemma of EMG's is. They'll sound practically the same in any guitar you put them because of the activeness.

I do think it kinda defeats the purpose of calling it a Tele. I mean, the whole point of the tele is that bridge and the single coils. It might as well be a Telecaster shaped RG.

[NeglectedField]

MUST. HAVE.

I'm not even a Slipknot/Stone Sour fan and love the idea. Even though Teles aren't super metal looking, they play lovely, body is strangely comfortable and the EMGs just make it fine for metal sound-wise.

Does anyone know what pickups Josh Rand uses?

[MerlinTKD]

Reminds me a little of this:

Attention Tele-shape lovers!

[Yoshi]

Originally Posted by Arctodus

The dilemma of EMG's is. They'll sound practically the same in any guitar you put them because of the activeness.

Huzzah for dumb comments!!!




Seriously, you must not have an ear for tone aye.

I love the 81 in mahogany and 85 in alder bodied guitars, Tried an 85 in a mahogany guitar and was a bit too bassy really.

Obviously any wood affects pickup, The way the sound waves vibrate in the body before it reaches the pickups.

Pickups are microphones, its just how they interpret the sound. For myself at least i can tell the difference. I dunno about you, maybe your one of those "Organic sound" loving guys.

[TomAwesome]

Originally Posted by Yoshi

Huzzah for dumb comments!!!

A bit oversimplified maybe, but there IS some truth to what he said. There's a big difference between putting it in alder or mahogany, obviously, but there's a lot less of a difference in sound between the guitars than there would be with passive pickups. In person I'm sure I'd be able to tell at least some difference between two EMGed Les Pauls, but on a record, a mahogany-bodied EMG-equipped guitar sounds pretty much like a mahogany-bodied EMG-equipped guitar.