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Recommend a Humbucker Pickup

  • 03-05-2013 2:10pm
    #1
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭


    I picked up a ESP LTD KH-2 a while back.
    It came with EMG 81/85s.
    I was a bit underwhelmed.
    Can someone recommend a good, high output Active OR Passive pickup set that would be good for heavy rock/metal/punk.
    I'm currently using Gauge 11 strings on it.

    For whats it's worth I have an American strat with HotRails (B) Jeff Beck Jr (M) and Cool Rails (N) and a 7 String Schecter Diamond with BareKnuckle PainKiller pickups....

    So something with a bit of a different sound to those... but in that kind of genre/type

    Am I the 1st person to find my 1st use of Active Pickups and my 1st use of EMGs to be a bit.... meh *shrugs*


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  • #2
    Ravelleman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,635 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ravelleman


    Cormac... wrote: »

    Am I the 1st person to find my 1st use of Active Pickups and my 1st use of EMGs to be a bit.... meh *shrugs*

    Certainly not.


  • #3
    slavetothegrind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭slavetothegrind


    gibson burstbucker

    or browse adverts, this would be nice and easy to move on if not to taste

    http://www.adverts.ie/guitar-accessories/seymour-duncan-hotrail-shr-1b-bridge-pickup/2527018


  • #4
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Did you pick it up second hand? If so, have you changed the battery in it?


  • #5
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Would you try the jeff beck pickups


  • #6
    wild turkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 625 ✭✭✭wild turkey


    You can also put the 85 in the bridge & 81 in the neck
    Never liked this Emg set, always found them very sterile as with the jb set, but thats to my ears.

    What amp are you using ? Are you changing your settings or running it at the same settings as you use for the other guitars ?


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