All user reviews for the EMG 81

Micro overboosted the ultimate choice for Metal or ceques always a big demand flow in the preamp!

I use a 11 years! has not rejuvenated! Before I went through a Di Marzio Tone Zone / Evolution and Seymour and Joe Barden but I needed a microphone that I recupre some precision the attauq e on my Les Paul! Not that such markings do not manufacture anything good, but my taste was not the color I was looking for! Precis is, a razor-sharp with virtually no noise ... short the top!

The only thing is, with my head I recupr mesa Fuzz even more, but once rule is better!
It is unfortunate also that the only version with metal cover is not available in Dor and only 81 .... it regrtable but at the same time it is a custom shop model 25me birthday ...

Nothing else to say about the specifics

Report Qualit Price: it's all over (although the new connectors can be a delicate borch my taste) and the price is quite reasonable for a microphone preamp incorporated!

I do it again this choice on my Les Paul 4 me if my bank is nice to me!

I use this mic for a fortnight because of several hours / days
This Micro possde trs good momentum, a significant gain, which tends to "crunch" sounds clear. It is extremely prcis, has a large sustain it with a sound not quite SPECIFICATIONS a lot of high harmonics and spectrum sonoreassez east on mdium high / high .. I feel he has to hear a range of sound reproduction is rather strait ... Finally an impression ... I do not like the sound of this microphone that means, it sounds a bit "synthetic"
I used mainly Dimarzio (tone zone, fred) and the sound is close to a sharper tone zone with a bit more than DEFINITIONS, harmonics and saturation in potato ... it's perfect for the solos and riffs nerve .. Using the potentiometer it sounds less "mtal" and can not address the pb directory rock ....
The microphone is coupled with a perfect 85 which is more serious and "vintage" with 2 microphones and position a couple on a wide range of sounds ... trs
The only criticism that I make for this microphone is that it is not "splittable" and that it is not musical in use "clear" ... So lack of versatility over the competition ( fred tone or area or evolution) ....
I do not put the maximum ..

JellyBellY (https://fr.audiofanzine.com/membres/index% 2Cidmembre 2C34579.html%) came to me with his Schecter C1 Fr (https://fr.audiofanzine.com/apprendre/mailing_forums/?idproduit=23105 ), it was able to test the two teams dun guitar EMG 81 in acute on the same amp
Well for those who doubted: The sound is DIFFERENT between the two guitars!
THE EMG therefore pass the LUTHERIE!

Guitars:
The Schecter has a handle screwed it in Rabl (beautifully ond the rest), (https://fr.audiofanzine.com/img/membres/normal/8/9/8977.jpg) a mahogany body and therefore EMG 89 in a serious and a EMG 81 in acute!
My Vigier MODEL is a former driver with a handle Fully carbon, a key in Phenowood which is actually a matrial close to the woods! The wings are normally alder. She is in serious quipedun EMG 85 and EMG 81 in acute dun.

Sound:
Vigier on the sound is more synthetic, more than anything Dimebag Darrell, It is the fact the neck-carbon! For the Schecter sound is warmer and finally close trs DiMarzio has dun like raisin bread!
Indeed, the EMG 81 is a micro high output (405 mV) and magnets raisin bread! So you have to compare what is comparable, if we compare the EMG 81 Seymour Duncan has a 59 that has 2 times less output level and basic deer Alnico EST sr that nest over the m me!
Jadore for this micro distos videmmentmais I found myself doing with funk! Indeed there is a espce of stuff on the guitar, you know something often black plastic or mtal vicinity of the bridge: It sappel a volume knob
Well, it is lower the volume, so if there is a little sen instead of putting all the time donf makes it less aggressive EMG 81 because the volume is on the bottom cruncher nimporte what clear sound
Jai also test some time ago EMG81 the position of a serious Vigier Excalibur Ultra Dioneae and I agree: the 81 is in serious carrment warmer quen position Acute whether well cest a 81!
Also Igor O Mount of EMG on his Gibson Les Paul Studio and a PRS CE24 and said on the forum that his silent guitar lautre diffrent dune that the microphones are the same !

In passing with my config rack but with no effect Cables quality I have absolutely no breath
And I prcise all EMG pickups are sold with accessories (http://www.emginc.com/productimages/Hcontrol.jpg): Tone & volume knob, medium pile, jack socket and the recess c wheat. EMG actually need knobs diffrent value of those used for passive pickups and the jack starts the active Systm: Cest why that if you leave the branch stack jack s' use! Just think adbrancher the jack when you do not play (as an active low actually)
Buying a short EMG you to change all the guitar llectronique except slecteur microphone, so that the ratio quality price is good trs: same price as a Seymour Duncan or DiMarzio but the electronic (pre-wired and more
Dtail friendly: the cable that goes micro dtach thanks to a plug (http://www.emginc.com/productimages/T3pin.jpg) Which means that once the install cblage on your guitar you dont no welds do to change pickups, you have a 85 in a severe and acute in 81 so you can easily reverse them!

Here I just wanted to wring his neck DEFINITIONS prtendent rumors that the EMG does not comply with the violin! Alalala people who speak without knowledge and / or which allow dmettre an opinion on a micro without washing test on at least two guitars violin making diffrent ...

I invite you to read the other reviews for more details and sound techniques, I recommend including that of Draghixa which is always good advice
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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!

I mounted on my EMG Ibanez a month ago now, I'm very happy because it gives me better sound than my old pickups, BUT they generate against by many more blows a passive pickup. I tried several guitars mounted original EMG and all with the same problem of breath. And it seems logical for these mics have a built-in preamp. So all those who say that the EMG does not generate a breath, it is pure fantasy.

If you plan to buy EMG thinking they produce less than a micro passive breath, then look elsewhere.
I find the palm muting with fairly average EMG (matter of taste), but otherwise it's big sound.

[edit] Do not confuse the breath and the background noise (for indeed the electronic microphone removes parasites by definition), more than I did a test with just the jack and the microphone (and the battery of course) without mounting it on a guitar, and the same breath is perseptible. I even try with a micro nine, after, and always the same breath. Even my 85 produces the same breath (test on multiple amplifiers with multiple cables), however, a good noise gate will do (what I use)

I want to say I use a cable ProCo Excalibur very high quality for my guitar, and all my rack is wired Proco too.

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 mic since I compltement of 2002et. I have on my Vigier I am completely crazy!
But the pickups are as they say:
-Prcis, sr is a -> a highway
Well for the large distortion (because prcis, it makes sense if one saturates a microphone a bit messy mess of what the black)
-Slamming, in short we play a little on the knob, or not, but it's great trs. Light and sound (main quality my eyes) and a super neat!

Now I love the rock sound natural sound too perfect, full of characters, one with which a groove, to vibrate, and the bin is not the right microphone. Genre nuance we forget trs minimal expressiveness and sound and really cold. The guys sometimes say we play everything, can be a rack of effects of 10 meters high but not with a normal amp tubes.

So if you love the fact numrique ok I understand if you play hard I also understand very heavy but otherwise no, no agreement! AT ALL!

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.

Tried this on a weekend LTD, I hated this microphone. I liked the power of sound but not the seed too indescribably cold and straight. I found the clean sound disappointing. Perhaps it was due to the violin, but many Korean microphones and most get away with more passive at this level. The sound was too square, too surgical, not expressive enough. Power was the appointment and that the quality of the first double that lends itself perfectly to metal styles but also to some experimental music.

And there's the battery to handle. While it is laudable autonomy.

I seriously think that for that price, you can find much better smoke. A buy only if you calculate your sound "output level" when you're a fan of this grain.

Addition of 26 January:
After detailed testing of a micro esp this time, I notice a sound improvement. So there are many, of great importance in fontion of violin used (which confirms the beatings, according to défenseurse of "loyalty to the instrument"). With a guitar bigger sounding, the sound was deeper, more granular, although the trend is definitely the mic smoother, I was able to find anyway a nice grain. The clean goes bad in the medium, which is not bad.

I correct my notes [6]

Note [5] is the average home.