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EMG 81 Pickup

EMG HZ Pickup

  1. Name: Mike

  2. Band: -----

  3. Model Year: -----

  4. Price Paid: -----

  5. Performance

  6. Looks clean, and is very quiet. Almost no hum.

  7. Performance Rating: 9

  8. Sound Quality

  9. Sterile, un-natural, compressed sound. Made for metal. Sounds really good through a tube amp.

  10. Sound Quality Rating: 8

  11. Construction

  12. Flawless construction.

  13. Construction Rating: 10

  1. Name: Red

  2. Band: JBMONEY25

  3. Model Year: -----

  4. Price Paid: -----

  5. Performance

  6. I bought a guitar with the EMG-HZ humbuckers equipped and I was happy, too bad I hoped high. It’s a flat pickup, gets the job done and that’s it. Nothing extra. I was really angry about that.

  7. Performance Rating: 6

  8. Sound Quality

  9. These are sterile pickups, they get the job done and that’s it. Nothing special.

  10. Sound Quality Rating: 6

  11. Construction

  12. It’s solid enough, it gets the job done and hasn’t degraded yet.

  13. Construction Rating: 10

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  1. Average Ratings
  2. Performance: 10
  3. Sound Quality: 9.6
  4. Construction: 10
  5. Ratings Key
  6. 10: Excellent
  7. 0: Useless
  8. Company
  9. EMG

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