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Thanks for the kind words. To answer your question, its has to do with the way passive vs. active pickups are grounded. Passive p’ups are grounded thru the bridge and strings to you in most cases so as you can imagine if there is a ground fault on say a microphone system, or where your amp is plugged in there could be trouble. EMG’s are internally grounded (battery has pos and neg) so your strings are no longer grounded thru you, the jack etc.
hope that makes sense.
see this link for all the infor you never really wanted to know but should!
http://www.guitarnuts.com/technical/electrical/safety/index.php[quote=”glw”]Yes, they might be loud, but my point is that they just have their own sound and don’t transmit the natural resonance of the guitar, so it is pointless putting them into guitars such as Gibsons because you may as well put them on a cheap guitar and get the same sound.[/quote]
Hey there folks… Just had to comment on this because I couldnt disagree more. Recently I have had the opportunity to install EMG’s into three different guitars and a 4th coming up. All 81 / 85 combos and ALL sounded completely different. In fact I changed the 85 to a 60 for the
neck on an Explorer becuase the 85 sounded muddy butv the 85 blowes the 60 away in the Les Pauls. The Gibson LP sounded different than the Epi and different still than the Jay Turser. So, In MY experience. They DO sound different from one to the next. I also run them at 18v because it DOES make them sound richer.
Oh and a ^5 to the support at EMG as well. Those guys go out of their way to make it a great experience when they are needed.
Just my 2cents
