I have 2 EMGs laying around, one is black one is white. I'd like to paint the white one black, will this effect its sound at all?

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Im going to say 'no', just because i want to see what will happen

no, it probably will. Something about paint on a big magnet says "interference," to me...

The reason why you'd think of that has me at a loss, but I think it will affect the pickup. Go to EMGPickups.com and see if you can find something about it or a customer service thing. Ask Jeeves is good too

Its probably depends heavily on how much paint... the conductive qualitys of the paint.. ect..

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I thought of it because the pick up is tinted yellow from cigarette smoke (my uncle's house) and a yellow tinted pick up will look fucking stupid on my guitar.

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i dont think it will alot of customs done by jackson and such paint over the pickups

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true ive seen many guitars with nice paintjobs that make the pickups blend in with the guitar. Or maybe thsoe r just painted covers??

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The only type of painted pickups I've seen like that were EMGs

thats all i have seen too but thats what DEAD said he had

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Yeah I forgot. I'd say go ahead and try it. You can always take the paint off. Just use only enough

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No, it should not affect the pickup.

Why would it???

The paint you'd want to use for this will probably be made from plastic of some sort, and not metal. If it's not metal (or rather, not magnetic (try it with a screw or something first if you're worried)), it will not interfere with the magnetic fields around the pickup.
"Plastic" paint is usually not conductive, and thus would not be able to do anything even if it got inside the pickup.

So how would it interfere?

(For those who didn't get that from the above text, I'm rather surprised to see so many people saying things they seem to have no idea about. I'm also a bit surprised to see so many people do not have any idea about this, but that might be because of the educational system in your area, so I should perhaps not blame you for that.)

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Sorry I failed paints 101..

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Paint not metal? No shit. It was an opinion; a theory. Ive never tried it, so i wouldnt know. SHIT-FOR-BRAINS.

Ok, what about static electricity? Paint gets static. Damn those cars that spark me when i touch em
....and what about metallic paint?

actually there are a lot of paints with metallic flakes, and that's what i'll be using, so you might want to be careful about that.

i'd suggest not painting over the actual metal parts of the pickup. try taking it apart and only painting the plastic part of it.. that's going to be much safer.

First of all, I'd like to apoligize for a bit uneccessarily harsh language, though the oppinions stated in my previous post still are valid. I was in a bit of a pissy mood, it shouldn't have gone out over you, but it did. Sorry about that.

Distorted: It's probably not the paint, but you, who gets static.

McTriple: Of course paints with high metal content would not be a good thing on any pickup, but since these are EMGs, I assume that they are "hermetically sealed" (all EMGs I've seen are), and thus the only parts you'd have to worry about would be the connectors on the back of the pickup, and it's pretty much common sense you'd not want paint on those, since the paint would isolate the connectors, thus making the pickup pretty useless.


Sorry if this comes across as some type of "bashing-all-the-stupid-assholes-in-this-world"-post. That's not what I'm trying to do. Just try to filter some of my language, and see to the facts I'm stating, and not the words used, and I think we can get along. I'm still pretty pissed about the same things that made me pissed yesterday (or whenever I posted last time), so I shouldn't really be writing at all. Fuck me.

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Whoever gave the suggestion to TAKE APART THE PICK-UP: please dont ever respond to another one of my posts. Have you ever seen an EMG before, or any pick up for that matter?

So would an oil based or latex based paint work better? I'm not about to go out and buy car paint that has metallic chips or special metallic blends that changes color in light so thoes are not a concern.

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Just don't get any paint on the connectors on the back, and you'll be fine.

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Thats where the masking tape comes into play

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lol, no i don't have emgs. i prefer alnicos. but i seem to be one of the rare gibson guys around here. alnicos or dimarzios!

sorry, dont take apart your emgs!

.. why don't you guys get over yourselves and just reply to his post, though?

"no, emgs are sealed and non metallic paint cannot interfere, excepting the connectors" seems quite the solution to this post, doens't it?

although it does seem ridiculous that people would think paint causes static paint can't hold electric charge.. or conduct it.. or.. anything to do with electricity. maybe not everybody's taken a few classes electromagnetism, though?

those damn shocks you get from the car are due to the car being a huge mass of metal sitting ontop of a relatively infinite charge of electrons known as the earth

even not magnetic paint that contains metal can interfere, though! all metals can have their domains aligned to produce magnetic forces, when electricity induces it, which may happen in a similar way to the strings inducing charges in the coils of the pickups..


go with a regular enamel paint and you will be just fine. masking tape up the area with connectors.. masking tape is the painters' best friend to avoid painting things you will later regret.

have fun! painting guitars is a lot of fun.. im about to put a wicked spray job on my old guitar. the only reason why i mentioned metallic flakes before is that i'm going to be using it on the body. it looks so much better than standard enamel. everybody should customize their guitars!

I don't think that paint would affect it unless it were metallic.
I would ask some one at a music store who services guitars to
be on the safe side.

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Hey I talked to a dude that owns a music store and he said that paint will
not affect the pick ups unless its metallic. I would go ahead and do it.

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it doesn't affect the pickups, ever seen the jackson custom shop guitars with those neato airbrush shit all over the 81's?

as long as your pickup doesn't have pole pieces or rails sticking out you'll be fine, I even had stickers over my emg's and didn't hear the difference, paint won't be a big deal then (well maybe if you put in on reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaly thick)