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Geek Culture / EMG Pickups "X Series": Worth Buying?

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Chris Redfield 2008
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Posted: 31st Dec 2009 23:05
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I was over on the EMG website the other day when I saw that they were braging about their new X Series. There suposed to combine that EMG tone that all metalheads love and know with a more Organic tone(kinda like the old Gibson pickups of the 1950's). Thoughts on this? Better yet, anyone tried em' out?

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AaronG
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Posted: 31st Dec 2009 23:22
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A friend of mine I believe has these (or some form of these) on his SG, and they sound beautiful both in bass and high notes.

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Chris Redfield 2008
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Posted: 31st Dec 2009 23:44 Edited at: 31st Dec 2009 23:54
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Do they now? Hmm... I wonder if YouTube would have anything on these...

EDIT: Here's a vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COhj6JTltcM

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Posted: 1st Jan 2010 16:58
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Like someone said on the video - you can't really tell how they sound because you don't know what settings they're using etc. Not a big fan of any of the tones used in that video to be fair, but it's probably amp/pedal related more than anything.

Also I hate how he pronounces soldering. Stupid American pronunciation - I'm normally fine with things like that, but it's just this one word - every time I hear someone say "soddering" I actually physically shudder
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Yea because the british pronounce everything else so much more correctly.... The way the say "aluminum" makes absolutely no sense at all.

I've used EMG pickups on an old guitar before, but not this series. They don't have a sound demo on their website?


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Alum... in... ium. Not Illuminium.

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