EMG Wiring Question

[X-Ray Spex]

I'm going to be wiring up my latest guitar with an EMG 81 and 85 humbucker respectively, however do EMG pickups require specific pots or are your standard 250k ,500k, 1 Meg pots fine for the job?

[Embenny]

I'm going to be wiring up my latest guitar with an EMG 81 and 85 humbucker respectively, however do EMG pickups require specific pots or are your standard 250k ,500k, 1 Meg pots fine for the job?

They are very much not fine. You need 25k pots. You can either buy their solderless kit at a premium for the convenience of plugging everything together, or you can cut off the connectors on the cable and. solder them to a regular 25k pot. Use audio taper 25k for volume and linear 25k for tone with a 0.1uf cap if you want the stock EMG arrangement.

[X-Ray Spex]

I'm going to be wiring up my latest guitar with an EMG 81 and 85 humbucker respectively, however do EMG pickups require specific pots or are your standard 250k ,500k, 1 Meg pots fine for the job?

They are very much not fine. You need 25k pots. You can either buy their solderless kit at a premium for the convenience of plugging everything together, or you can cut off the connectors on the cable and. solder them to a regular 25k pot. Use audio taper 25k for volume and linear 25k for tone with a 0.1uf cap if you want the stock EMG arrangement.

Thanks for the info, much appreciated!

[Embenny]

I'm going to be wiring up my latest guitar with an EMG 81 and 85 humbucker respectively, however do EMG pickups require specific pots or are your standard 250k ,500k, 1 Meg pots fine for the job?

They are very much not fine. You need 25k pots. You can either buy their solderless kit at a premium for the convenience of plugging everything together, or you can cut off the connectors on the cable and. solder them to a regular 25k pot. Use audio taper 25k for volume and linear 25k for tone with a 0.1uf cap if you want the stock EMG arrangement.

Thanks for the info, much appreciated!

No problemo!

So what guitar are these going in? A metal-approved Offset, or something pointy?

[X-Ray Spex]

They are very much not fine. You need 25k pots. You can either buy their solderless kit at a premium for the convenience of plugging everything together, or you can cut off the connectors on the cable and. solder them to a regular 25k pot. Use audio taper 25k for volume and linear 25k for tone with a 0.1uf cap if you want the stock EMG arrangement.

Thanks for the info, much appreciated!

No problemo!

So what guitar are these going in? A metal-approved Offset, or something pointy?

A very special metal offset indeed, think aluminium neck levels of metal. I don't actually play metal at all, mostly drop-tuned clean/atmospheric stuff with a bit of overdrive for choruses. However sick of mushyness from my gain tones and a big fan of EMG's for clean stuff so it was kind've a no-brainer.

[Embenny]

Thanks for the info, much appreciated!

No problemo!

So what guitar are these going in? A metal-approved Offset, or something pointy?

A very special metal offset indeed, think aluminium neck levels of metal. I don't actually play metal at all, mostly drop-tuned clean/atmospheric stuff with a bit of overdrive for choruses. However sick of mushyness from my gain tones and a big fan of EMG's for clean stuff so it was kind've a no-brainer.

Awesome! Post photos when it's done! I got super into active electronics on bass and it made me re-examine my bias against active guitar electronics. It's often associated with "only metal". More and more lately, I have reexamined that bias, since sometimes I use so much fuzz that I'm easily in "metal-equivalent" levels of gain, just a different flavour of it. It makes a lot of sense to use the super high signal-to-noise ratio of active pickups for tones like that, vs the wild humfest that is a JM running through cascading fuzz pedals!

[X-Ray Spex]

No problemo!

So what guitar are these going in? A metal-approved Offset, or something pointy?

A very special metal offset indeed, think aluminium neck levels of metal. I don't actually play metal at all, mostly drop-tuned clean/atmospheric stuff with a bit of overdrive for choruses. However sick of mushyness from my gain tones and a big fan of EMG's for clean stuff so it was kind've a no-brainer.

Awesome! Post photos when it's done! I got super into active electronics on bass and it made me re-examine my bias against active guitar electronics. It's often associated with "only metal". More and more lately, I have reexamined that bias, since sometimes I use so much fuzz that I'm easily in "metal-equivalent" levels of gain, just a different flavour of it. It makes a lot of sense to use the super high signal-to-noise ratio of active pickups for tones like that, vs the wild humfest that is a JM running through cascading fuzz pedals!

Will do believe me, it's been a LONG time in the making! I hate hum in general so active electronics make a lot of sense to me, I've often heard the complaint that they're ''too perfect'' sounding but the other guy in my band plays a Strat and has the hummy characterful input to the overall sound covered anyway (in a good way of course)