This is supposedly the system that David Gilmour uses on his Red Strat. It comes as a pre-wired pickguard and it's an active system that uses a standard 9 volt battery which fits right under the pickguard where the far tone Knob is. It's totally solderless too.The tone knobs are actually EXG and SPC circuits. The EXG circuit boosts the low and high frequencies, and the SPC boosts the mids. They are both fully bypassed when turned all the way down.

Even though Gilmore uses it for mostly lead work, reading that it was good for chord defanition, I was wondering how it would sound plugged into my 65 Twin Reverb RI.

It took less than an hour to install, and that included taking the strings off and putting on a new set. I put a set of D'adderio Chromes 12's on the strat, and set the eq on the Twin to 6/6/6, reverb on 3, and a little vibrato. I set the EXG and SPC about half way up.

Here is the sample...

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I think it sounds much better than the N3 noiseless pickups that came on my strat, and it's now 3 single coils instead of being an HSS (like it was when I got it). The main reason I got the HSS was because of the roller nut anyway, so now I have an SSS with a roller nut.

Let me know what you think... or not...

I got these about a year ago and they blew me away, they definitely have the best of both worlds thing goin on, great plucky single coil tones or fatter humbucker tones depending on how you tweak em. Definitely perfect for both rhythm and lead.

One tip, always unplug your jack lead when you're not using it because when it's plugged in it uses the battery up and changing it is a pain in the $@!.

I might suggest drilling a small hole through to the trem cavity and installing your battery there...makes life a little easier.

They can get noisy with distortion as they're active, My DeVille has a seperate low impedance input for active pickups but I don't know if the twin reverb has.

One last thing, not bein an $@!, but....it's Gilmour not Gilmore

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"I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so f*ckin' heroic!"

Come on now, He's got it right in the first sentence.

I also picked up a DG-20 earlier this year, and I love the range on it. When I got mine I did it just for playing Shine on You Crazy Daimond, so it had to go into a new CAR strat. Now I use it all the time it seems. Also yuor sound clip sounds great, enjoy it buddy.

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Sounds great!!!

I'm a fan of EMG's too.