All user reviews of 5/5 for the EMG 81

I possde this micro juilet since 2004. Mount in the bridge position on a Jackson Kelly KE-3 Japan, coupled with a 85 position handle.

I love the sound of this microphone (magnets raisin bread), whether in big clean sounds or distortion. Clearly it is quite typical and sounds quite "dry" and you have AIM that the EMG and the grain, my personal love! In saturated sounds, it's the terrible, the big potato, sustain hell, dynamic and not an egg background noise (and yes it is good with the active pickups, if indeed what ' using quality cables and that there is no gas for a factory amp ... like my old VS-100 what!). the grain again this dlicieux EMG is Submitted (APRS we like it or not ... everyone loves her gots!)

We can all play saturated with this nice micro from the small to the big rock that mtal spot playing with the volume knob (25 KB, supplied) prcis trs. Tone of the knob and also comes with, mine is not installed because there was no home on Jackson (just volume) but I dj plenty to do!

This micro complies with the violin of the guitar unlike ides (false) reues!

Quality price ratio very nice view of the accessories that come with! (120 euros for me with installation included).

I choose not hsiter referrer for my next guitar (with the Tone knob this time!), A lment indipensable for me (as a fan of Metallica) in my qute Sound! !

I play for a year with these great micros.La reputation of my emg did prefer these models for others because being a fan of metal I like many are impeccable.
I started to get on my Epiphone G-400 Gothic and from that moment I rediscovered my guitar! But the quality of the violin being asser average microphones are just up the levels.
But a month after I did purchase a beautiful esp viper std also equipped with 81!
Slap, the power level is not comparable!
Violin making careful and superior species, shows once again that fits the guitar pickups.
The power of the micro requires precision from the player as they may bleed easily if it plays way too rough!
Ideal in rhythm as a solo, he can not appeal in his clear, it may seem cold and lack of roundness but is a matter of taste.
The price of a microphone, I think, because it can never excessive permetre to avoid changing a guitar, so the price / quality ratio is quite correct.
Never again will I be playing on less powerful pickups, the only alternative I could find to take this Dimarzio, Seymour Duncan or prs but the sound would not have the personality typical emg.

I have been using one myself, and as cut short the rumors (again).
I have two guitars a emg epiphone ibanez RG and SG, the sound is radically deiferent on these two guitars. ok well there is the grain of 81 but I assure you that the lute is fully met (through my epiphone sounds, but anyway, while for RG roxx severe). on the other hand rumors as how this is micro Frode and not at all flexible, so Let's stop. mocro this is certainly less "hot" a 85, but I can assure you that the neck position it sounds still very round and clean that is perfectly usable (its very own crystal-clear, it's normal emg, and even sometimes very jazzy in the neck position, it depends on the amp has equalistation). course to exploit cleans it will lower the output level (you know there is a volume knob on all guitars and it can serve )
regarding the noise, ah here we are!! good compared to a passive pickup good quality no less than breath (or for that matter) but just less noise, ah belief when you hold us!
Excellent for any type of game, I go from blues to heavy metal by a very heavy drop by varietoche and I get all the sounds I want. but be careful do not make me say what I do not say: THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT TRANSPARENT MICRO, he has a personality very friction.
105 has a nine pigalle this microphone is a great value price as well as all the connections is provided with (volume, tone, stereo jack) and the installation is amazingly simple.
in short a very high quality microphone that does exactly what is asked (or not BECAUSE it does well as the resort bread bitch!) at an affordable price, I put at least one cause of a blast that probeleme perciste (severe but I am!)

Unmute cramique two conductors (not and split, except possibly with a manip be shown on the site EMG) which is well trs bridge, clear sound quite cold compared to the EMG 85 (normal, latter is AlNiCo5) but nice anyway!
These microphones are active, so no noise in sight, unless you rotten with jacks in your string effects, if you have a naturally pramp blowing, etc..

A default of warm personality almost palpable as the 85, 81 is the b'en own prcis, and harmonics come out super easy, it has everything a coronation of the same dynamics and pr presence.

ATTENTION If you want to install you even. The EMG have really Carrs angles, unlike Duncan, DiMarzio, etc., with rounded corners. The installation of an EMG, can then expand the ncessiter dfonces pickups on your guitar, violin not work forcment the door of everyone.

A luthier and worthy of the name makes you complte installation kit (cblage + violin) for cheap! GNER is not as much as plutt do anything with his guitar.

And thank you Rowerfox who convinced me to take the plunge (again the old beliefs and attitudes about active pickups, its cold, lack of versatility, battery discharge to a phobia).

Moreover, cells are given for close to 2,000 hours. A condition of well thought unplug the guitar when not playing!
Addition of 30/03/2004: The EMG respect the basic sound, the acoustic sound of the guitar ... I had forgotten to point out, thinking it was a natural cell.
It Yadji standard diffrence between my scratch teams in EMG: my Jackson DR2, poplar, has a darker sound and more dug in my mdiums Jackson SLSMG mahogany!
And my Les Paul is still very low load, but cel contrlable remains with the 500T in SERIES.
A rglage same on my amp, its a jai diffrent between each of these guitars.
Those damn microphones are not transparent, but they really respect the sound of each guitar!

Hmm I would first like to clear some details about these microphones. I could see in the opinions of remarks vis-a-vis the breath of these microphones ?!!!. So as it would appear these microphones have a lot of breath. Why not, I just want to point ke jai EMG81 and an EMG 85 on my guitar, so I sai pa pa physicist why I sound but I still see little microphones that have virtually no wind although active. Then they say that these ki microphones tend to spit I ask them what they are already on commme amp, then for those same ki mount them their mics I would advise them to take some wiring board: D. Not because I say seeing people look at the opinions of people and then c because of this they guide their choices, and I think its a shame to say anything. I am still shocked by those who could write these microphones were enormously blast finally good, or so I find myself in a region where the humidity and pressure are such that my microphone walk flawlessly?! !! I think not all the same. Ke Touc this I have to say is that those who want the sound (of his very large) will be problem free they are perfect, however much they saturate in clean but still no breath.

I have this microwave for 2 years on my jackson.
I think
advantages:
- No parasites,
- Very precise in its saturated
- It really snaps (see too, it is almost unusable in its clear from playing the knob volume of the guitar, but then you lose the momentum ...)

disadvantages:
- A little cold, great for metal, but it's harder to get a rock sound
it gives a synthetic short side for my taste ... but it's a personal opinion.

For a warmer sound, I advice on a mahogany body ^ ^
If you play metal, it is THE mic for you. Accurate, clear and a phenomenal fishing!!

EDIT: Contrary to what is said above, they generate no breath, you just take good knobs and isolate the battery.

User EMG 60 and 81.85 over the past fifteen years on BC RICH (Bich, Ironbird, Beast), Gibson (Les Paul, FlyingV) on Marshall JCM900, I do not understand the fury of some people to find them disadvantages ... The sound is quite different depending on the model of guitar (especially on BC Rich), but the accuracy is impressive in all cases. When using this type of micro, especially 81, is in black and white in the manual is recommended for the metal, so the output level phenomenal!
Their design allows you to limit the noise, not remove them.
The breath can be heard can only come from either a too small distance between the guitar and amp, or excessive use of effects (including preamp). In both cases, use a noise gate, with the disadvantages that it has too.
I think if there are users frustrated, they find the same pattern as their guitar and they try it with other microphones. At that time they can really judge.
In conclusion, if not the profit margin may be some European retailers on these microphones (see prices in dollars on the site http://www.emginc.com/downloads/EMGPriceList.pdf EMG), I ' have nothing to blame them.

This is the micro metal par excellence, I use it for 10 years for speed and there's nothing better, not so powerful as here compared with a Di Marzio x2n killers or other liabilities that often boiled n'envois Sound filthy, not 81 is not the highly accurate full of harmonics, very straight, very neutral tonalitée is because of this that can be tailored Scult sound with a built-in , a grain innimitable, here "grunts", get a tone and it's the Apocalypse, clear, precise, powerful (not too), clean, enough to create a metal the devil, a lightning attack, harmonic singing and adjustable at will, you play metal, you will see the ben trying ... only problem, do not plan to play something else with him, you will find it too cold, it excels in the overdose of saturation!

I use the 81 for a year on an M1000 (with alder body that goes). I like the precision of this terrible microphone. With it, the notes of the guitar gush! The plans tapping, harmonics, everything is a surgical precision. Mon to / made a leap forward. Inject in my ENGL, your exact is evil!

That's my opinion the microphone of the metal. It is for the first and distortion sounds in return a little cold to be sure its clear. That said, in the neck position rsultats are INTERESTED (for arpges in the metal, a TRS is honorable!).

Do not believe that only a micro compltement change the sound of the guitar (wood also plays a lot) but it can really provide a scratching sound quality average (involving micro MIDDLE) for not so much as a .

For those who also like hot dgoulinant, it is best to ct a guitar made for a (+ seymour mahogany eg JB).

I do it again this choice without hsiter.

- How long have you use it?
2 years now on a low end epiphone: D in the bridge position.

- What is the particular feature you like best and least?
We go straight to the point with the emg81, this microphone is made only for the hard rock and metal and also distortion, no sound or light crunch if you do not want to pierce ears. It's a cold slap a slice, the pm stand death, gnial what. on the other hand in clear bah is the same thing, cold, cold trs same, the sound is not round at all is quite painful to the ears but hey it Voil will not ask him to jazz, either.

- How do you report qualitprix?
Bah remains correct

- With the exprience, you do again this choice?
No, I would do not have that choice because it is sorely lacking micro versatility, Seymour Duncan is better positioned for that.

being good given that emg81, we hear everywhere in the world of metal, and the 3 / 4 of the groups I listen to use this microphone, I say no need to look any further!

good not need to do a drawing, the emg 81 is a legend, the word that everyone know, active micro, ultra prcis, cold, ...
people complain that it is cold, so what? I like the fact its cold, if I want a warm sound I take a strat ac a simple micro worse I play the blues! lol

I have this on a micro and a ibanez jackson JS30RR RG, mounted in 11-70, drop B, drop C, drop some A, A #.

obviously good, it sounds metal, it sounds cold. I play mostly metalcore (August Burns Red, Parkway Drive, As I Lay Dying ...), which is a good mix of bold and aggressive riffs, rhythmic palm mute ultra prcis, net shots, and melodies- Solo ultra precise, short a good mix of style metal.

sound level between the ibanez and jackson, the sound changes slightly, a little fat on the ibanez I would say, but the ear you can hear it a lot.

in rhythm: for me it's the highlight of the microphone, it is pure folly. Palm Mute us chills at each shot, accuracy in fast and rhythmic techniques are waiting for you is a pearl.

Leading in, solo: the 81 sounds tjs as accurate, whistle out the harmonics and sound nothing like bcp, is the sustain, the tapping is a real rgal.

for me this microphone is a microphone perfect for this kind of music, but would go very well for other kinds of metal, but I think it is really made for this mixture aggressive rhythm and solos!

I do not regret at all the assets put on my guitars, for that matter is not for nothing that I rebuilt for ibanez.

if I play on a Hugh and Kettner, so as said before, the guitar, the amp bcp can change things, but for me the Ibanez RG and Jackson are perfect for the V metal (24 boxes and more for solos ^ ^) so I think it sounds perfectly fine.

after ben is clear that people like this sound emg, others not, but for me there is no better, and I'm not ready to change these pickups