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Seymour Duncan quarter pounder doing my tits in!!


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I've got one of these in my teles bridge and while it sounds great it's noisy as fuck. Has anybody had much experience with stacked/noise canceling tele bridge pickups. I've been looking at EMG's and while they seem to sound decent from the widdly youtube videos, I don't think I could get past the Metallica endorsments and what have you. Affa metal. I'm just after a nice, traditional sounding tele pickup which is as silent as a humbucker. Any thoughts??

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Not all just Metallica/Slayer/Zakk Wylde from EMGs. :) Lots of jazz players use them.

Also:-

Electric Guitar Pickups & Accessories - EMG Pickups | DG20 David Gilmour

He uses the EMG SA single coil.

R&B have an EMG Tele set in stock just now. I could probably do you a no bad price if you decide to go that route. ;)

It's a nightmare trying to mix and match EMGs and passives. So ideally you'd want to change the whole set.

One of my favourite aspects of EMGs is the silence of them. :)

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Totally. If EMG's are good enough for Gilmour I reckon they'd do me just dandy. My tele's a 72 reissue (but a good een for being Mexican) so it's got a humbucker in the neck which I actually really like. Because it's got seperate volume/tone pots for the bridge and neck, do you reckon I could replace the pots for the bridge emg and keep the neck pickup without too much hassle? I need to do my homework.

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You can do it but trust me, keeping it half active and half passive is MEGA hassle! Which is a shame as - if you could configure it easily - you could get some cracking combinations.

Expensive option but Bare Knuckle are always worth considering, they'll customise any of their models to spec and they sound fantastic. :)

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In the EMG brochure they claim that their tele neck p/u is the best sounding one they have. I had an 85 bucker in the 80s and it made my crappy plywood Kramer howl n growl n squeal nicely. If I had spare money (!?) I'd put a set in my crappy plywood Squier tele, EMGs care nothing for yer tonewoods, they'll deliver on anything. If only they made them look vintage with polepieces/lipstick cover, like the Strat one they do (SV).

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Get a noise gate/suppressor. gets rif of single coil hum.

I don't have a problem with single coils much myself, without a noise supressor. Even my split coil Warpig is very quiet, and that thing is hotter than the sun.

A lot can depend on the particular situation/venue. Things like neon lights and dimmer switches can cause real problems.

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I think the pickup may be dodgey, cause it's a microphonic squeel it makes at loud volume and only buzzes like fuck when near electrical equipment. I think I'm gonna order me a kinman on payday. Not heard a bad thing about them and should keep my tele sounding like a tele.

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