EMGs on an AL - Anyone?

[Ripper]

Just wondering - any one here actually replaced the stock SD with EMG actives, while utilising the silent circuit battery compartment to power the EMGs?

May be nice I guess...

 

[robelinda2]

someone here has, its a trans blue AL, forget who it was! I'm sure they will chip in here soon......

 

[Axilla]

...don't have them EMGs anymore but once had a set of 3 EMG SAs in a Str@t copy that were really sweet. I guess they'd be equally great in an AL.

Sorry for the hijack, Ripper, but reading the mail address in your avatar I could not resist inserting THIS:

...completely off topic, but...

Sunny greetz from Bavaria

Axel

 

[robelinda2]

HA HA HA HA!!!!!! Too funny Axilla!

 

[Ripper]

Haha ha good one there axi! Gothtracker is actually a crash helmet model from Arai Japan, for dirt track or supermotos rider. Got really nothing to do with gothic stuffs or John5.. I bike around...

Anyway... still awaiting for that EMGs equipped AL as mentioned by Rob!

 

[robelinda2]

i'll find the pic, hold on.....

 

[beej]

It's uvacom's guitar- beautiful trans blue (or teal) AL with EMGs.

 

[mbgreene]

Yea - that's uvacom's

here's a thread about the mod

http://www.ernieball.com/forums/music-man-guitars/22551-emgs-albert-lee.html

 

[Ripper]

^ Thanks for the thread link! Think I gonna close this thread.

 

[uvacom]

Nah, hold up. I took the EMGs out. The sound great, but after a while I started to get bugged by how the 2/4 positions sound - you really need passives to get the kind 2/4s I like, because buffered(active) pickups don't create that parallel inductive network.

 

[Ripper]

Good advice there, Uva! For those who intend to meddle with your stock p/u, do consider twice....

ALs, imo, do look nice with EMGs, particularly with the logos .

 

[uvacom]

Well, you know - I wouldn't go so far as to say "don't meddle". I've got a set of Lindy Fralins in there that I really like right now. In a year, who knows? I'd probably swap less if I had more guitars, but my tastes change regularly so I end up swapping a lot.

Bottom line, if you like a guitar but want it to produce a different tone, pickups are the easiest way to do it.

I don't mean that as a slight to EBMM at all, the stock pickups are a great match for the AL. I'm just experimental by nature.

 

[robelinda2]

agree on the passives, they do have that tone you want from positions 2 and 4.

 

[Ripper]

^ very very true indeed.

 

[Axilla]

...when it comes to passives it's definitely time to checkout Rob's Aussie mate Chris Kinman and his PUs !!!

Fender guitars, Noiseless Single Coil Pickups

They RULE when it comes to "pimpin' yer ride" (or axe that is...)

 

[robelinda2]

dunno about the kinman's, i did try them in a few strats a few years ago, wasnt that impressed. maybe i should give them another go in a ball.

 

[beej]

Having tried a lot, I personally really like the Bill Lawrence noiseless ones (and they're much cheaper than the Kinmans). Having said that, a lot of people feel that no noiseless single coil touches the best-of-breed true single coil pickups and I tend to agree.

That said, the AL's single coils are awesome and the silent circuit works as advertised: you really don't get much noise.

 

[uvacom]

A friend of mine has a set of Dimarzio Area 58/58/61s in his strat, and I have to say that those sound really, really good. To my ears, better than Kinmans.