All user reviews for the EMG 85

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.

[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.

I use it for a few weeks on my ESP LTD Viper 500.

I love the natural sound rather warm and can play more bluesy than the EMG 81. In his clear, it is also more beautiful than the 81, with more mediums. This is done for a micro or rhythmic arpeggios.

Otherwise, a micro power, high output level, very quiet (no breath at home even with the knob maximum) and generates a lot of harmonics (attention to the game so the mediator), the sustain is correct but not worth my SD Alnico II.

The value price is right even though they are quite expensive microphones, they are worth their price.

I use them on my second guitar but I'm not sure I use them on a lead guitar, I think it lacks a little charm, his successor for my taste too little grain, but then it depends clearly your amp. I recommend a big tube amp behind or it will not ring.

I possde this microphone since 2001.
In dpart, I used a solid body type strat (Yamaha PAC604w) which I then replaced by an EMG 89 to enjoy the split.
As lead is a good micro trs undoubtedly the big powerful sound, great sustain with nice bass and a register harmonic trs open!
Perfect, but have APRS replaced by the 89 (which splits the same non Boulo the way) I had no other use for this microphone. But I kept it in my inventory in anticipation of a need ultrieur.
Having read many times contrary views on the use of this clear in his microphone, n'tant not too happy with the sound of my Epiphone "Emperor" and knowing the capacity to impose its grain of EMG (see I think the set SA/SA/89) I shall decide to test the 85 on it.
Is not your exact dtour!
Claims to the EMG are cold or EMG85 is not sound clear, I rponds this:
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This title was recorded with a t Epiphone "Joe Pass" upgrade EMG85 with a branch in the neck position of a PV Classisc 50 212.
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A round, soft, moleux, rich with nice bass and well Dfine beautiful harmonics and sustain open poustouflant ...
I am the first surprised but clear as in the saturated micro wonders.

- I used the 85 intermittently since 2000, I had three in total

- On mounting of microphones and blast generated (or not) by them: I always had a very slight hiss in the first five trials of EMG that I had: then suddenly, in contravention of requirements of the instructions I connected my EMG EMG successive sets to the ground like common passive pickups and the problem was solved (I have never caused damage to my hardware or not to me).

- This microwave has a good definition, good output, increased sustain of the magnetic field lower than on liabilities ... A micro versatile that I find much more suited to the bridge 81. The bass is very present and make the core alnico sound pretty hot

- I came across on the net that you could make a slight modification of the circuitry to switch the microphones on 18 volts (actually we add a clip battery + battery in series with the first). I did the mod and I must say that the result is interresting that the sound becomes more cramped, but then it's a matter of taste.

- In the neck or bridge 85 is equally at home with the clean sounds with distortion. This is the micro bridge that I used since I'm playing. (I have a history: Dimarzio evolution, emg 81, DiMarzio Steve's Special, d-sonic, tone zone, Seymour Duncan JB).

- I mounted successively on mahogany washburn dime, and a jackson ps2, and finally a MusicMan JP6 ... I think the 85 particularly adapted to the jackson (wood in his brilliant and floyd)

Hi All Guitarists,

The EMG 85 is a micro Grand trs mic, I use it for 8 years or so, and I t trs sound surprised that you could get with. The microphone is mounted in a position Acute Japan Fender Stratocaster Reissue 60 MODEL, rosewood handle, and the middle position and I have two serious EMG SA, and well with this setup, I can get almost all modern guitar sounds.

For the micro EMG 85 in acute, I get a super clean in his trs Clean and friendly, I get a sound saturated with low trs Chaud clean, sound like a Gibson PAF (a kind les paul custom but modern), but with cleaner harmonics SIFL kind Seymour Duncan SH4.

If you want a vintage sound a little warm, but with the precision and power dynamics of a micro active, the EMG 85 for you.

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Here I added the opinion on the EMG SA, and this, to show the possibilities of EMG 85 EMG SA coupled with 2, and with this config you can do miracles.

For EMG SA I clean a crystal-clear sound trs kind Fender 60s, position 2 and 4 are fabulous for Arpges (hello Slows).
In saturated fat and the sound is clean with a Fender Vintage Grain, but more powerful than Fender pickups.
NB: The sound of the micro EMG SA position is saturated serious Cut breath so it is extraordinary, his type was a David Gilmour, Santana and Jimi Hendrix Isle of Wight concert in 1970.
With EMG SA serious position we can go far with trs, we enter the Quatrime Psychdlique Dimension. (Provided you have a good amp like lamps and super pramp SansAmp PSA 1,
Marshall JMP 1, and a good multi-effects)
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On a Marshall JCM 800 amp with a Tech 21 SansAmp, plus a multi effects ROLAND BOSS GX 700, I can get the Sound: Joe Satriani, Steve Lukater, David Gilmour, Michael Schenker, Yngwie Malmsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Dave Murray Kirk Hamet, Ka Hansen.

There are those with EMG pickups, that I can get as many sounds, really love the EMG 85 and EMG SA, and when we play live we have the best possible sound for the Live, Bravo EMG.

Trs good report quality price.

If c'tait again, I would do without this choice hsiter.

Nordin

History of breath ...
I agree with the comments previous ones. I have several guitars with EMG Teams (85-81-60-SA) and I did not breath .. If there is breath, it is probably another source: welding, jack, combination pdalier-amp, compressor and noise gate rgl evil ... etc. ...... but certainly not micro se.
PS: knowing enough about the 85 and 81 (5 teams in personal guitars EMG) I urge the 85 teams with Floyd tremolo guitars, and 81 on Lespaul Gibson guitars or vintage Tremolo unless you want more mdium and harmonics in the register ..
APRS and several years playing with the microphone, and compared with the number 81 or DiMarzio, Seymourd and others ... I am madly with pleasure every time. Everything is dynamic but not nag, rich in harmonic with a superb DEFINITIONS across the spectrum, warm and crystalline ... nothing more to say, it's top.

Config.: Gibson SG bridge and neck
I "graphitquot; the cavity in which is the potentiomtres, a copper foil on the front of the indoor access plate

The -
Potentiomtre no hole for the son
Connector without dtrompeur!
potentiomtres short (adios les paul)
It takes a good half Journe work to install these microphones
(Others too ... but it's worth to rflchir, especially if you have to pay someone to do it, I ask no hsiter 100-120)

Most
The gear is complete (pot, Cables, jack)
Enjoy the world of silence. It's amazing
I plugged two guitars successively in the same amp without changing the rglages (lots of volume and gain). The lighting is a pice of low voltage halogne dims. This type of lighting means in the micro so much that usually I play in the dark!
I plug a Les Paul: IMMEDIATE buzz, followed in the second of a feedback
I plug the SG almost no noise, the amp in a smooth dcroche disaine second.
For that reason alone, these micro worth, my sense of being called a micro "pro"
The conditions are similar in my living room or on a scne found mainly lighting dims also.
The sound quality is good, sg returns with low balance and low mdium accentus trs. The high notes are also heard, but "araches" wallpaper.
I wanted to place a dpart 89 in bridge, but there is no room for a switch-potentiomtre SG

Exprience with (I did not) I do it again this choice. I bought these mics to sell an SG by giving it a bonus. T have the microphones are on ebay. The ratio quality price is good I think trs.

I have the EMG 85 for a while already on a Gibson LP, the kit with Zakk's cousin 81!

It is a very versatile mic is really hot in color, plain as in full.

What about more than my LP has really become a weapon of war as much ds super crystalline arpeggio solos in the darkest lol.

I love this microphone in his neck position and of course his cousin on 81!

Cons by saying that there better I'm wondering because most of the metal bands and other servants of the Abyss music use ...

For me the EMG 85 is a must in terms of big sound and really one of the best mic at all!

Cheers and thank you for EMG provide me the dream!! 666

For years, EMG has been an instantly recognized name in heavier genres of music for their high output active pickups. And who doesn’t recognize the ‘blacked out’ look of their matte black covered pickups? Used by top acts such as Metallica, Slayer, Zakk Wylde, and MANY more modern bands, EMG has defined a sound of its own that some love, and others don’t.

The 85 an alnico magnet humbucker usually found as the neck pickup in EMG’s recommended sets. As with all EMG pickups, it features a quick connect interfacing of circuitry and pickup, so that pickups can be swapped easily. In an active design, pickups usually have weak magnets, and couple with a preamp (the ‘active’ part of the circuit) to boost and mold the signal. This is why EMG pickups are usually found set very close to the strings. The preamp is also why EMG’s tend to sound a bit more similar in different guitars than your average pickup.

The 85 is a very hot pickup, even more so, in my opinion, than the 81. In the neck, used under high gain application, it offers a very warm and almost ‘slurred’ sound, lending itself to more fluid legato when used in a shredding application. Cleans, if not EQed specifically for this pickup, can come off overly bass heavy and undefined. The hot response does pair well with finger picking though.

Though not the ‘conventional’ EMG setup, the 85 works great in the bridge position aswell. This is my personal preference, unless I am downtuning WAY low and need to keep an obscene amount of clarity. It offers a little more warmth, and a generally more organic response than the typical 81. Chords and single note runs sound bigger, though they do lose some of the very tight initial attack of the 81. Killswitch Engage is one band well known to use EMG 85’s in the bridge positions of their guitars. Again, the quick connect cable makes trying all these EMG combinations a breeze, so break out a screwdriver, and see what works best for you.