I currently have a rg 270. I want better. I have about 450 dollers i can spend. I could buy a whole new guitar, or i could put 2 emg 81 and a single coil in my current guitar-about $320... i have been researching a few different guitars like the kh202 (ltd shit) anyways thats in my price range and have emgs but their hz. There is a jackson DXMG for the same price with emg 2 hz but with 1 less nob thingy lol. alo a ltd that looks like james hetfields for like $419 with the emg hzs.If you any other guitar suggestions or advice tell me what i should do. (save my money?)

go to your local store and see what they have for used shit sometimes you can find a really sweet guitar at a great price, but if you really like the way the guitar you have now playes and stuff then just get the emg's for it

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Get a Schecter! great guitars, great price... cant go wrong

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i think im gonna go with this jackson V... practice standing and playing. its 400, no emgs...

which v?

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jackson kvx10 king v, i think its the lower class old dave mustain v

you oughtta just buy EMGs instead, if you like the RG that much.

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i kinda dont understand what the difference is between pickups though... duncan makes a pickup just for metal called dimbucker, why wouldnt i want that 1 opposed to the emg?

the dimebucker is Dimebag's signature pickup. For my 2nd jackson (which right now is using stock duncan designed pickups) i'm buying a dimebucker and a '59. Both EMG and Dimebuckers are great, its just preference. I like both, but i wanted to buy the EMG's first. which is what i did.

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i just heard from some guy i met somehow... anyway he told me dimarzio is the best pickup there is, dont let anyone tell u different... anyway i think ill save a little money and just buy the pickups for my current guitar. im thinking ill forget about emgs because they are mad expensive.

dimarzio's fucking suck, unless your playing nu metal, dimarzio suck ass.

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there half the price though. im loving this neck pickup from them http://www.dimarzio.com/media/b_r_o.mp3 sounds awsome to me. steve vai and joe satriani uses dimarzio.

don't switch guitars, switch pickups, unless you're not satisfied with certain features of your rg270. how do you like your rg270? what don't you like about it? if you don't like it, get a better guitar with better pickups; upgrade the whole package, instead of just the pickups.

pickups are all a matter of preference. they just sound different to other people. it's pretty subjective
you just gotta hear how they sound, maybe try out a few guitars that have the pickups in question, then you'll get an idea.

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i agree replace the pickups, i did it with my guitar instead of buying a new one, you wont be dissapointed with new pickups

alright... now i gotta find a place or website with cheap emgs

ebay

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yeah i already looked they start at like 67 bucks

what if i put a emg81 on the bridge a dimebucker for the neck and like a dimarzio single coil for the middle (pickups-hsh)

Your dillema is you dont know what a "Knob Thingy" is.

Im sorry "nob thingy"*

you wouldn't be able to put a dimebucker, emg, and single coil dimarzio. Unless you bought EMG HZ's. I don't know about dimarzio, but i'm pretty sure dimebucker is passive, while the EMG 81 is active, and you can't mix electronics.

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tone and volume the, there is an extra tone "nob" on the kirk hammet 1, i dunno what their called... hardwear? anyways you didnt have u say that jackass

oh really, my friend told me, or this guy i met on the internet, that you could mix them. oh well.

do u put store batteries in active pickups?

dude, you cant mix active and passive and hope for both of them to be clean. your not gonna be able to ground the the passive because emg's are internally sheilded and you'd probably shock yourself
if i were you, i'd get 2 EMG-85's and a single coil active EMG. the 85 has a fuller output than the 81 as well as better distortion. i love my 85

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dude thats cheap enough!!!

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that extra knob is the active afterburner made by emg. it's a 20db boost . im prolly gonna get that for my bc rich after i decide to make the electronics cavity larger. the cavity is already stuffed with a 9 volt for the EMG 85 and the tone pot (theres only one knob on my guitar cuz it's the cheap slipknot signature. i dont care the white binding rules!). there's also a meass of electrical tape and wires.

oh yeah.. this guitar of mine will be fully customized soon. i'm getting black hardware for it

yes, the neck pickup is passive but its not connected. it's not like i use it anyway....

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If you havent played on emg 81s test them before you buy them, in my opinion they sound thin, they have no balls, i would suggest an 85 over the 81 if you need emgs. What is the problem with your RG? does it not play well? does it not sound good? Do you need something different for your guitar or your amp to make it sound better? before you buy pickups or a new guitar look into why you want a new guitar sound. If it was me, i would probably get a parker p-series guitar. They are the most diverse guitars in my opinion, you wont get bored with it anytime soon.

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i just got some money to blow on shit, i knew kirk hammet used the 81s, most of the stuff i play is metallica so i though why not get metallica's pickups.

its ok to mix brands though right, as long as there all passive. like i could have a duncan for the bridge and a dimarzio for the neck and slap a single coil of something in the middle?

can anyone recomend a good single coil pickup? (if it says pickup for fender strat, does that mean i cant put it in my ibanez)?

fuck all of the bull shit and go to www.warmoth.com and start bulding your own.

$450 will get you into a body. than all you need is a neck,bridge and pickups.
you will have the baddest axe in town.

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jesus makes good point, building shit from warmoth is GUARENTEED to be the best axe in your... well, until you find the next guy who built his from warmoth.

but yeah, you can mix all the pickups, as long as they're the same electronics. And yeah, if a pickup says for fender strat, mostlikely, you can put it in your ibanez, but check the dimensions and shit first, it's a hell of alot easier when you don't have to cut any of your guitar.

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... WHY DIDNT U TELL ME ABOUT BUILDING MY OWN GUITAR EARLYER.......... i already ordered my pickups, humbucker from hell in the neck, chopper middle, and invader for the bridge. lol when i have another $600 to spare ill make my own lol

also warmoths hold their value very well.
when building your own you must also add in the cost of having it put togther by a luthier if you cant do it yourself(drilling holes through the body for the strings and filing down the frets edges on a raw neck , routing out for pickups if needed etc......)
it runs about $300-$400.

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yeah i'm sure its well worth it, and that would just be awsome to have your own custom guitar!

i hear john williams pays a good 20,000 plus for a luthier to make his guitars.

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i installed my pickups, humbucker from hell, the chopper, and the invader, they all sound perfect with clean and i would recomend all of them but,... when i give it distortion from my pedal (boss metal zone) it gets feed back, is it my pedal?

thank you, for once some one agrees w/ me.

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