I would like to know whether the pickups would sound ok and what amp and stuff i would need to get the master tone. I have $800 asutralian to spend $550-%650 american.

well Emg's sound good, if thats the tone you're looking for that is, active pickups are nice, but if you have a super tube amp I wouldn't buy emgs I guess.

81's are in my opinion the best sounding emg's for the bridge pos, for the neck an 85 would do great.... I guess a set will set you back for about 2-300 bucks with installment. (for a pair that is!)

in your case you would need 3 emg's huh. thats badass. but if you want to use one of the old pu's you can't combine them with active emg's, you can combine any passive pickup with another though

Now that I have closed my other one can you please tell me what 3rd emg I should put in the middle position and what amp. I would really like some ideas on the amp please. 500-600 dollrs american and I will get 2nd hand.

maybe a 81 in the bridge, an 85 in the middle and a 60 in the neck.

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I personally would put in some sd's in ur guitar, perhaps an invader and a 59, they also sell actives aswell.

I never really suggest amps as i believe its up to each players individual taste, but i'd buy either a second hand ENGL, perhaps a powerball or savage or the amp which i'm goin to get which is the B-52 ST100-A with a s cab. Either way, the amps rock,

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You can combine passives and actives, I've done this b4. I had an 81 in the bridge and an EMG Select in the neck, and it worked.

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EMG is crap in my opinion...
I have heard that even Metallica has finaly undertod that, and has now started to use the excelent Gibson picups who allready is in the guitars...

Seymore Duncan is more my taste. You could consider SH-2 Jazz, SH-4 JB who is the picups who comes with almost all the american Jacksons.
You don't need that batery too..

What gear do you have? It's the player who is important to make good sound.

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since when did esp's start coming with gibson pickups? because as far as i knew, metallica plays esp.

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I bought a 2000 model peavey classic 50. It is a valve amp do you think these are any good for playing metal if I get some effects and if so what effects would you recommend.

its not a bad amp at all, really versitile, but not a mainly 'metal' amp.

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can I get some pedals to make it sound better and what ones would you recommend

if you want to use a pedal for your dist, i'd always suggest a tube driven pedal, or you could also look into buying a preamp or something to use for its distortion.

here are a few tube pedals to look into
a mesa vtwin pedal
a mesa v-1 bottle rocket
an akai shredmaster
an mmx metal monster

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Metallica does use ESPs. Kirk uses emg 81's and James mostly uses 81's and 60's; sometimes an 85 but rarely. They do have use gibsons but James is the only one who uses a custom ESP that looks like a Les Paul and it has emgs.

Oh, by the way, duncans got nothin on emg tone.

Do you think that I bought a good amp. And i would like to know whether its class a or b. I has a tweed finish and says peavy classic 50.

i'm pretty sure its class a/b. the peavey classic 30,50 are pretty nice from what i've played... 6L6 power tubes right?,the cleans were damn good, and the distortion was pretty versitile, but for my style it still lacked a bit in the gain area, nothing an od pedal cant fix though .
how would you rate your amp for what music you play?

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