| EMG, Inc first started manufacturing guitar pickups | | | | Personally I have had great success with using EMG |
| back in 1976, known as EMG pickups. Over the years | | | | pickups in a Gibson Les Paul and 7 string ESP guitar |
| they have earned the reputation for quality, clear | | | | especially if you are into heavier sounding music. The |
| sounding pickups used by many professional artists. | | | | clarity, deeper tone, and added gain are what make |
| ESP guitars and Jackson guitars currently use EMG | | | | the pickups more suitable. One negative thing about |
| pickups as their standard pickup design. Their high | | | | the EMG active pickups is the need for a 9 volt |
| output is preferred by hard rock and heavy metal | | | | battery, but it's not much of a problem because the |
| guitarists because of the pickups higher gain output as | | | | battery lasts for a long time. You just need to make |
| opposed to most lower output pickups. Some of the | | | | sure you replace the battery at least every 6 months |
| bands and artists who currently endorse EMG pickups | | | | because of tone loss over time. |
| are Tom Morrello, Zakk Wylde, Stephen Carpenter, | | | | Installation for a set of EMG pickups is fairly easy |
| Metallica, Slayer and many others | | | | depending on the type of guitar you have. With the |
| The most common EMG pickups are the EMG 81 and | | | | right tools I was able to install a set of Zakk Wylde |
| 85. The EMG 81 is usually considered to be the lead | | | | custom EMG's in Gibson Les Paul in under an hour. As |
| pickup and is more commonly used in the bridge | | | | long as you follow the right installation diagrams for |
| position, while the EMG 85 is mainly used as a rhythm | | | | your type of guitar you should not run into any |
| pickup more used in the neck position. | | | | problems. |