Hi everyone, I'm new on this board but have been playing with Fender indtruments for years. I've recently installed a set of EMG pickups in one of my strat and I gotta say that they really rock! They're good at what they are,,, shredding. Not vintage sounding in any way, but they have a great edge. Here's a little video that I've put together. I've composed the music, played and recorded all the instruments and played my EMG equiped strat on it. Hope you enjoy it, cheers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDMqYUCfexs

Welcome.

It really is a great thing when a player is truly satisfied with his/her choice of pickups.

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You dig?

From what I see you're a happy owner of a Charvel So-Cal guitar.

I was thinking of doing this mod to one of my Strats (HSS EMG's). You have convinced me. Great sound. Nice guitar.

Nice playing, Max!
I'm no EMG fan but I've been thinking about building a heavy metal axe out of a strat myself (kinda like the Blink182 strat, whatever that guy is called) with just 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 1 Humbucker. Maybe a Destroyer or Evolution.
We'll see.....

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Kindest regards from Germany, Dee
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STRATS ROCK!!! but Teles and Firebirds, too!

I have used several different EMG setups and currently have a a set of EMG-SAs with a EMG-85 humbucker in the bridge. I think this humbucker is the same Zakk Wylde uses in the bridge position. I have the system mounted in an older Graffiti Yellow Strat Plus. EMG are really nice for the Clapton, Gilmore, and just blues or (metal if your into shredding). But even on a clean tube amp one can get really nice jazz-box sounds as well.

Here is another Strat I owned a while back. It is 1997 American Standard Strat. This EMG electronics are similar to a David Gilmour Strat, but with an extra push/pull tone control. The on-board EQ circuits give you very powerful tone shaping abilities. If you look at the pictures, your will see 4 knobs rather than your standard 3. The lower tone knob controls the EXG - Guitar Expander which attenuates the mid-range frequencies while simultaneously boosting the low and high frequency response. The increased low frequency response comes through clean and percussive. The accentuated high frequency response results in improved sensitivity with a well-defined attack.



The reduced mid-range improves overall clarity throughout the boosted bandwidths to give you a bigger sound. This “scooped” tone helps emphasize the clean, transparent classic Strat tone. The middle center knob (small black one) controls the SPC - Presence Control, or more commonly know as the The Fat Control. EMG invented the SPC to emulate a humbucking tone in the EMG and SA Systems. It is an active mid-range boost circuit mounted on a potentiometer that gives up to 6 dB gain in the 1.3 kHz region while reducing high frequency response to accentuate the mids. It comes alive with overdrive tones.

The extra middle center knob (other small black one, off to the side) is a tone push/pull pot which cuts the mid-range of the neck and bridge pickups and adjusts them as a standard tone control, thus giving you even more tonal control and variation. As soon as I plugged this in, I could tell there was more power than with any other Strat set-up I have owned. The EMG circuits give you almost an unlimited variation of tones; from a fat and full humbucker, to a standard single coil Strat tone. Add to that: hollow, thick, thin, and even clean high fidelity sounds. The only problem was, trying to remember where all your favorite setting were at!!!!!

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