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Title: EMG's Post by: Steven_nl on August 27, 2008, 12:26:16 PM Hi Guys
Do any of you play a guitar with EMG's thought the OTS? Satisfied? I have a strat with EMG's (humbuckers with coil splitter and Single Coil) and it doesn't sound to good. Title: Re: EMG's Post by: bluesfendermanblues on August 27, 2008, 05:47:48 PM EMG's are great for distorted tones a la lukather and nice for 80's direct-in-pult funky rythm sounds as heard on michael jackson records of the area.
However, not the route to great blues sounds and the like. Title: Re: EMG's Post by: bobgoblin on August 27, 2008, 07:23:08 PM Didn't Larry Carlton use EMG's on his Valley Arts Strat-style? If so, I'd say that's a pretty damn GREAT blues tone. Prince uses them, too, and his tone is MASSIVE. I'm not 100% on this, but EMG's always struck me as "hi-fi" sounding, so you may need to do some serious tweaking with the OTS to get 'em sounding just right. Good luck!
Title: Re: EMG's Post by: lstead on August 27, 2008, 11:41:37 PM hi! i use the DG20 David Gilmour set with most of the smoothing mods and it soulds great to me... and i am a blues player! laurie
Title: Re: EMG's Post by: Gridlock on August 28, 2008, 07:12:07 AM yeh i had the emg DG-20 set. when clean they were just really really clean, like sterile clean if you get me. the neck p/up was real nice and bluesy = shine on, 94 pulse. they're great p/ups no doubt but for a vintage sound they dont have that mojo - too hi-fi i spose as bobgoblin said. depends on your tastes but i would never describe them as sounding bad so i doubt its just the p/ups.
i thought they handled effects really well as well. yeh the mid boost control was great, def gave the p/ups a bit of oomph which they lacked without the boost. actually still have the full DG-20 set if anyone is interested. |