EMG X-Series

[metropolis_4]

Why doesn’t anybody seem to go for the X series EMGs? It seems like every time I hear talk about EMGs people are always talking about the old models and nobody ever talks about the new models.

I’ve consistently liked the new X versions much better than the old version for every EMG I’ve tried. They really made some great improvements and fixed some problems people didn’t like in the old ones. But everyone still just gets the old versions.

Is it because of familiarity? Because you prefer the old models?

Just curious

 

[Jarick]

I'm just dipping my toes into EMG so I wanted to stick more with the classics to try them out.

 

[FuzzyAce]

I do have an 85X in one guitar, paired with a S in the neck. I can't compare it to my old 85 because it's not installed right now. But from memory it's all there much like the original and sounds great. The X series is supposed to have improved headroom and range.

 

[metropolis_4]

I'm just dipping my toes into EMG so I wanted to stick more with the classics to try them out.

I wonder if this is how a lot of people think when first trying them out. I think maybe EMG made a mistake with how they introduced these. Maybe they should have just sold these as the “new improved” standard series and then reintroduced the old models as the “classic” line or something

I do have an 85X in one guitar, paired with a S in the neck. I can't compare it to my old 85 because it's not installed right now. But from memory it's all there much like the original and sounds great. The X series is supposed to have improved headroom and range.

Improved headroom, less compressed, more open and natural sounding, but still with that classic EMG thing going on.

 

[Frankencat]

I like the compression of the original series but I will try the X next.

 

[laxu]

I wonder if this is how a lot of people think when first trying them out. I think maybe EMG made a mistake with how they introduced these. Maybe they should have just sold these as the “new improved” standard series and then reintroduced the old models as the “classic” line or something

I honestly was not even aware these things existed. They seem to have been around since like 2009.

 

[dk_ace]

Well personally, if I was buying EMGs, I’m thinking zakk and Metallica.

I think that’s why the classics get all the discussion.

If I wanted a high output pickup other than an 81, I’m probably gonna be between Bareknuckle, Sd, and dimarzio as the first things that come to mind.

I just don’t think people are that aware of EMGs other offerings.

D

 

[FuzzyAce]

Well personally, if I was buying EMGs, I’m thinking zakk and Metallica.

I think that’s why the classics get all the discussion.

If I wanted a high output pickup other than an 81, I’m probably gonna be between Bareknuckle, Sd, and dimarzio as the first things that come to mind.

I just don’t think people are that aware of EMGs other offerings.

D

It kind of shocked me, there's a factory tour vid that was posted recently on youtube, and the head guy said they move roughly 1500-2000 pickups a day out to buyers. They can handle around 3000 a day. That's a lot.

 

[0XI0]

I like the compression of the original series but I will try the X next.

that's exactly it, like circa 2001 they started improving the clean channels in everything and all of a sudden overnight the "DS-1 is a garbage pedal". Fishman Fluence basically pre-baked a top boost into a design to always win an A/B, but that makes as much sense to me as clean boosting the front of the fractal to get more gain lmfao. EMG tone out the guitar jack is a literal preamp signal, the original. how tf u gonna improve a flavor. Chex Mix just "improved" bold and they fucked up my snack

 

[DISTORT6]

It kind of shocked me, there's a factory tour vid that was posted recently on youtube, and the head guy said they move roughly 1500-2000 pickups a day out to buyers. They can handle around 3000 a day. That's a lot.

They are OEM for a lot of companies.
Fishman has been cutting into their clients, though.