The dimebucker also has a retardedly high number of winds around the magnet, gives it a lot more output, and fucking fantastic harmonics.

I hate to say it, but most people here don't know what they're talking about. Seymour Duncans, Dimarzio, and Bill Lawrence are all far superior in tone to EMG's. EMG's active pickups do have higher output than most of those, excluding some, but the tone doesn't even compare.

I recently installed a SD Jazz/JB combo in my schecter. After a minor problem with the wiring, which turned out to be a major pain in the ass, I sorted it all out and they sound AMAZING.

Good luck with your pickups. If it turns out that they aren't what you were looking for, check out the Duncans. You won't be disappointed.

Finally, someone else who's fallen in love with the insta-harmonics on SD's. Ever notice than even on low gain and low volume, you can still make em squeal? Couldn't get that out of a Zakk Wylde signature lefty (though once you turned it up the thing was a beast). One thing I love about the SD's more than any other is the clarity. You hit a big fat classical chord, every note is crystal clear, even at high gain.

Seymour duncan, all the way.

My schecter c-1 classic has them, and has amazing tone, clean, overdriven, and flat out metal distorted.

I also have a schecter c-1 hellraiser floyd rose, and it has emgs 81/85 I believe. Lemme put it this way, emgs sound like SHIT on the clean channel, and sound very generic once distorted. If you wanna sound like bands like shitclot, static-x, or anything nu-metal, buy emg's. If you want true rocking tone all the way, go w/ duncans.


My 2 cents as a 3 years guitar player.

EMGs are tight if you want to sound like everyone else who thinks they can shred. go for seymour duncans. you get more models to chose from so you can add more character to your sound, but they've got some models that you can really rip it up with. my advice is to go to your local guitar shop and talk to someone there, they can probably answer your questions better than most people on here

duncan by what others have said

I love how people are talking shit about EMGs 81/85. These are the best metal pickups you can get aswell as SDs.

E/ And EMGs don't fit on just any guitar.

This post was edited by Darkshade on Jul 9 2008 05:45pm

I love how you make a post on something you know nothing about, or have very very little taste and experience in.