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EMG unwire

 

2/14/2001 4:24 PM

J. Brown

EMG unwire I just picked up a great old Schecter strat     that fits my unique requirements for strat-style     guitars: mahogany body and stop tailpiece. But     it as three single coil EMGS in it. I need to     remove those an replace them with a bridge     bucker and neck passive single coil. I have     installed and removed normal single coils before     what will different about removing three active     single coils?         J. Brown

 

2/14/2001 6:37 PM

David Warren

If I understand your question correctly, I can tell you that you will basically have to scrap all the controls (pots), except for the five-way selector switch, assuming a five-way is part of the wiring harness. The active EMG's use 25K-Ohm potentiometers. Most passive Strat pickups use 250K pots, or 500K if they are humbucking types. Some use 500K or 1 Meg pots anyway to get a brighter high-end response. Which value you need will depend on your choice of pickups. The wiring of the guitar is also a personal choice. There are links at this web site which list different Strat wiring schematics for passive pickups.

 
 

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2/14/2001 7:54 PM

Doc

If your guitar has a snap connector for a 9-volt battery, then it's safe to assume you have the low impedance active pickups and lower resistance pots described above.         EMG did produce a lower grade high impedance passive pickup (I think they are named "Select") that require no battery and use the regular 250k pots associated with most single coil pickups.         I just wanted to make this clarification. In case you have the Select style pickups, you would only change out the 3 pickups, not the pots or switch wiring.

 

2/14/2001 9:56 PM
Ben	Some of those Select pickup uses the 9v battery snap also... at leats I saw some with it and my Hohner steinberger licensed has select with battery in it.         On the subject of what was asked...         I'd check at guitarnuts.com for a great wiring that you'd like and start from scratch... teh descriptions there are great and illustrated.

 

2/14/2001 11:12 PM

J. Brown

Thanks for the informative replies everyone!     This is a great site.     Hopefully I can sweeten the deal on this     particular git by just letting the storeowner     keep the EMGs (he thought they were Lace     Senors eyes must be going bad)and having a blank     body to work with. Torn between putting in a SD     single-coil sized HB or just routing it for     bridge bucker...leaning toward the latter there     is something about the full size humbucker that     the stacked ones just don't quite capture.         J. Brown

 

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