David Gilmour's EMG SA pickup tones
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- David Gilmour's EMG SA pickup tones
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Guitar: Fender Stratocaster with EMG SA pickups and SPC and EXG tone controls
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The candy apple red Fender V57 reissue Stratocaster is the iconic guitar that defines David Gilmour's tones of the 80s and 90s. Perhaps equally iconic are the EMG pickups and tone controls that created much of David's super smooth tones of the era. Here's my review of the EMG DG20 pickup set.
In early 1984, David and his long-time technician Phil Taylor, visited the Fender Warehouse in Einfield, Middlesex, UK and tried a bunch of the new reissue guitars from the Fender Fullerton.
This was just prior to David heading out on the About Face tour and apparently, he didn’t want to bring his old guitars as they now started to rise in value (International Musician August 1984).
They bought a total of seven guitars and at least four were modified with EMG SA pickups and the EXG and SPC active tone controls. Including the V57 candy apple red.
The EMG DG20 is a set containing both the three SA (single coils with alnico magnets) pickups and the active SPC and EXG tone controls. While older sets needed to be soldered, the current one has a solderless system making them very easy to install.
Read the full review here www.gilmourish....
The red strat is definetly my best "Gilmour strat sound" era. Love the hard rock tone of delicate sound of thunder !
Sound of thunder? Thats from a short in the lead cord. lol
Echoes @ Pompeii, 1971.
Stock Strat in the hands of a true master.
The Fuzz Face and the Hiwatts helped a bit.
I love all his sounds from day one but I also do have a penchant for his sound and tone from Delicate Sound of Thunder...nice
@@lespauldisciple3349 Gilmour seldom had stock strats. He was always experimenting with different things on them.
Totally agree
Tone and playing extremely similar to Gilmour..
Just a joy to hear.
Thanks!
Hey, Bjorn. Your playing does justice indeed to DG's tone and hand. Very well rounded technique and expression. Thank you so much for your videos.
Thanks for the kind words!
I love the EMG SAs. The Gilmour tone of that PF era was epic. I had a set of these in one of my Strats but the battery kept dying. I checked with EMG and the problem was that shielding in the rout will create a circuit and kill the battery. I switched the pickups to a different unshielded Strat and have no problems now whatsoever. Great tone and versatility with no hum.
Guitar Pat's Too Easy Lessons thanks that’s a great tip.
The EMGs don't need any shielding, as they are noiseless. Not even an earth (=ground) to the tremolo. I have the DG set, BTW, so I'm not just spouting hype.I do think, though, that if you insulated your battery (wrapping it in some tape), you wouldn't have that problem. No need for a new guitar!
@@Ndlanding I just got a FSR Signature (MIM with fat 50s pickups) that looks like the Black Strat (3 ply pick-guard instead of one). It looks and sounds great, especially for the price, but I'm thinking about getting one of the pre-wired sets featured in the video.
Is that issue with the shielding paint shortening the circuit quite typical (you both seem to know a fair bit)?
@@raoulduke344 Hi, Raoul! I know a fair bit about SOME things, but I'm not an expert. Your FSR (I had to look this up!) is a signature, but whose? Hendrix? David G? Clapton? The point is, the FRS is meant to replicate some aspect(s) of some guitarist, but it's all a bit gimmicky in my opinion. But if you're happy with your guitar, and you say it sounds great, why spend more? AFAIK, only active (EMG in this case) pickup sets suffer when a guitar is shielded? Is yours? (Mine isn't.) But as I said, look into insulating the battery and maybe removing the earth (=ground) wire to the bridge/trem. Not too sure what your guitar is like inside.
@@Ndlanding Thanks. It's a David G one.
I have a Mexican Strat from 2009 with the Steve Lukather EMG set in there. So good. SO GOOD.
I had these back in 2002. One thing I noticed was how "clear" and "clean" these pickups are. Yes, they are less dynamic than passive pickups but I do think they have an important place in music. Sometimes I need that clear clean sound, where every note sustains and strings sound like they are all at the same level. My passive pickups sound great but sometimes when I bend notes on certain strings (like the high E) they pitter out and don't sustain (like the solo on Comfortably Numb). SSL-1 is my favorite pickup he used because of the sheer dynamics and tone of that pickup but the EMG SA pickups in my opinion overall sound better live, provide a noiseless cleaner tone, and sustain better, but it depends on what amp and effects you use as well. I just went and purchased these again since I just joined a Pink Floyd Tribute Band but without the EXG and SPC knobs. I want to try this first because honestly I didn't use them before so much. I think SPC was nice for a mid boost, but the EXG was kind of muddy sounding IMO.
Yeah even for high output active humbuckers for metal, the reason they're so popular isn't really just because they have higher output than passive pickups. It's mainly because they are so clean and neat and tight. They really make your tone very easy to hear and make sense of even at insanely high levels of gain. It really brings a definition and neatness, they sound so precise and tight. It's perfect for the mix, in a band situation. The guitar doesn't get muffled into nothingness like you hear a lot these days.
The precursor to modern active pickups is one of my absolute favourite pickups in history. The Gibson single coil active pickups that Les Paul used on his own special version of the les Paul guitar, called the Les Paul Recording model. It's a strange guitar. It has low impedence pickups, and so it won't just plug into any old amp, you have to use specific rare types of cables and stuff. There eventually was a high impedence mode put in them for use with normal amps, but the main use of these guitars was for the recording studio, hence the name Recording model. With low impedence he just plugged directly into the mixing desk and it sounded fantastic.
The pickups just sound astoundingly good. Les Paul absolutely loathed any type of overdrive or distortion, so these pickups are really only for clean tone. But they sound so good for that. There's no hum either of course. They just sound so organic and natural, and it's just honestly stunning how a completely dry clean tone can sound so good.
But yeah then decades later, companies like EMG took the active pickup design of the Les Paul Recording model, and turned them into high output heavy metal monsters. But they still have that same precise tight defined tone that the les Paul recording pickups did.
The les Paul recording model is one of my dream guitars. But they're ridiculously rare and expensive. They never really were made in high quantities. Basically only like the amount that a custom shop guitar would be made in. Gibson reissued it a few years ago but the pickups were just regular pickups, inside a shell that merely had the appearance of the original Recording pickups, but were built completely differently and sounded completely different. So it was just a funky looking but otherwise standard les Paul
Amazing sound as usual, when i close my eyes i eard mr gilmour.
Congratulations you re an amazin guitar player.
Cheers from france
Thank you!
gilmourish RIIS well done, sir! What year is your set of EMG’s from? Apparently they have changed over the years from pole pieces to bar magnets and containing either ceramic magnets or alnico 5
Got a set of EMG SA’s back in the 90’s for my Strat. That is still my favorite guitar.
I put one in my first guitar, a cheap Johnson Strat copy, and it is amazing. It even blends well with the stock middle and neck pickups I left in.
These pickups love love love love electro harmonix pedals.
Thanks for the tip - cheers!
ugh. finally an EMG SA demo with good tone. Was beginning nobody knew how to use them...
Greatly appreciate your reviews and gained a lot from your previous, written articles. Many thanks.
Thank you!
Great playing and DG sound. Luv the tones of these EMG’s
Thanks!
Pro-Tips: You have to release the neck pickup to remove the old pickguard and install the new EMG DG20 pickguard. This is because the pickguard actually slides under the last fret on the neck. Some DG20 kits don't include the foam for the 9V battery. So save some soft foam from packing material. Their isn't really room for the 9V battery under the control knobs and pots, so you have to force the pickguard down and start screwing it in place. But align the screws for the loose neck pickup first.
I have a set of old SA's in a Warmoth Strat I assembled back in 1993 or so.
I think my controls work a bit differently.
The volume does what it does.
The upper tone knob next to the volume works as a normal collective tone for all 3 pickups.
With the lower tone knob at zero, it's like a normal 60's strat voicing.
As the lower tone knob comes up, low mid range is added in along with at least a couple dB's of output signal boost across the full turn of the pot.
Now THAT was a decent demo! I've got this setup on my Strat, and I love the range of sounds it can produce. It's not exactly Strat-sounding, but I prefer it the way it is.
My jaw literary hit the ground when I watched the "Pulse Concert" David Gilmour smoked that guitar during the whole show, and I saw the EMG's pickups installed on it, of course David Gilmour playing is incredible, the sound is in the fingers just like you playing, but a great guitar with good sounding pickups also make the difference
Hi Bjorn, Brilliant Demo, Sensational playing👍👍👍.
I Love these Pickups, I have them on a Candy Apple FSR 57 Fender Strat Reissue that I call my Pulse Strat.
So versatile, Highly recommend !
Take care♥️,
Melbourne, Australia.
came here to hear some pickup tones, stayed for damn good playing
You play very very much like Dave I mean I know your site is the Gilmour bible but I never have heard you play before now I'm very impressed well done
Thanks for the kind words!!
Holy smoke. That really is The Sound. Love it :D
I adore the EMG DG20 set. I never found a Strat sound I liked playing until I tried them.
Hello Bjorn, thank you for everything you do, and for all of your videos! You have helped me out so much when it comes to achieving a better Gilmour-type tone! I am a huge fan of your videos and content, and I greatly appreciate everything you do, and all of the hard work and dedication that you put into your craft as a musician! Thank You so much for all that you do!!! Great Playing as always Bjorn!!! God Bless You, and best wishes, please take care!
-Paul Bendig
HI Paul, thanks for the very kind words!
DG is in my opinion the best rock guitar player ever lived
Hot damn that sounds good!! Nice and mellow, yet still has bite. Love it!
EMG SA are installed in Mark Knopfler's Pensa MK-1 built in 1988, which been used on Dire Straits Album 'On Every Street".
¡¡¡Thank you very much, indeed!!! ¡¡¡Gilmourish is the absolute reference to David´s tone fans !!!
Thank you!
Please keep the EMG’s: they’ve become vintage in their own right.
One of the basses I play is a ‘71 CAR Fender Jazzbass I got from the first owner 20 years ago. He was a professional bassist back than.
In the mid to late ‘80’s he had EMG’s installed in this bass.
For years I wanted to swap them for passive ‘vintage’ pickups, but I never did...
Why? Because soundpeople loved them, and some of them told me they think of them as vintage too now!
I think your black strat sounds great! A great tone not heard that much anymore, but it will come back soon, because everything ‘80’s is hot now.
Great playing too!!
Kind regards,
🖖
Thoroughly enjoyable pit stop on tonight's RUclips journeying. Your playing is the equivalent of a David Gilmour body double.
Thanks for the kind words!
I had SA's in a 70's Strat once. They sounded great.
Wow I think you've mastered the setup
Great playing, feel, and demonstration of the different tones!
Thanks!
@@gilmourishofficial update.. I loved your demonstration video of the EMG DG-20 so much that I reached out to a cousin of mine who is an EMG authorized reseller and pulled the trigger on a new set! Thanks again for your great demonstration video. Cheers!!!
Played a Tele during the '80s and 90s with a SA and '85 fitted with the regular volume/tone setup. Loved that guitar and the pickups worked well with the type of music/gear and effects of the time. Recently fitted a set of SAs with the EXG and SPC to a Strat. The SAs sound okay, neither one thing or another, but lend themselves well for recording and post production EQ adjustments. What really brings them alive is the EXG and SPC controls.
If you fit SAs... any active EMGs for that matter, you won't get the best out of them without the SPC/EXG controls... otherwise use an EQ pedal with them.
Your playing is insane. Really close to DG's sound. Impressive!
Thanks for the kind words!
The Lollar Sixty Four set that I have in my Fender strat absolutely nails the classic David Gilmour tones (which is fairly similar to what he used before the EMGs).
That said, I just ordered the EMG DG20 pickguard, mainly because they're extremely versatile and something a little different.
Absolutely loving these tones!
Wow, i gotta get this set up, its wonderful . Love your playing too!
Great sound, thanks for showing
If you listen to ‘Coming back to life’ you’ll hear the EXG and SPC in action.
Exquisite sound and fantastic playing! 😀
Thank you!
Pompeii, 1971.
Just a stock CBS Strat...
...freaking awesome tone.
The Fuzz Face and Hiwatts helped a bit.
I love thé sound on délicate sound of Thunder...learning to fly ,shine on and on the turning away particularly...
I don’t understand the complaints about the battery?? I used to use EMG’s non stop, playing all the time and I never once killed a battery. I think I changed it after 2 years but still then it had voltage left. Just unplug after every use and you’re gold
My experience too. Changed the battery maybe once.
I would’t know to say what’s my favorite Gilmour’s tone, but these pickups sounds fantastic and offer many possibilities of control. I like them very much
Thanks for doing this. I literally just dropped a loaded dg20 into my american strat last month. I love the pulse sound so much. I had no idea what i was doing with the bottom 2 knobs. lol You should unretire the emgs!
Yeah maybe I should. They do sound great :)
I have this set up in my Fender Player Strat and Squier CV70 Strat. Love the options. I also no longer need an overdrive going into my Tech 21 British, which I run into a Two Notes Torpedo CAB M+ and a Headrush FRFR112.
Thanks for the tone review. Awesome video. I have these In My roadhouse deluxe strat.
(Some) Guitarists get tired quickly of mid-range frequencies, including myself. Active pickups, humbuckers (in my opinion) are sort of mid-humpy effects based on true single coil. That`s why I traded my les paul for a tele. Though, I miss it sometimes, but I don't regret selling it. Of course humbuckers, active pups are a lot of fun but noway I can use them as my primary sound. At least for now. So, it's a strat and a tele for now. =)
I have those pickups on both my guitars, a Charvel mod.4 (1982) and a Cort G290, both "Strat-type". Actually they're HSS, with two SA and a splittable 89 humbucker al the bridge. Wouldn't change them with anything else. Their clarity and cleanness is incomparable, in my opinion. :-)
And they have enough output AND dynamics for anything you want to play... And I mostly use them with clean tones.
Thanks for the video, as well as for all the OTHER videos you make. :-)
Who do you like your Cort G290? It still sells in my country and I intend to buy it.
@@stefanchernev4996 I like the guitar in its entirety. Good, comfortable neck, easy access even to the very last fret, excellent pickups with absolutely ZERO noise whatsoever, well balanced, Sperzel locking, Wilkinson tremolo (which is maybe the "weak link" in the chain, yet it's a good tremolo!). The tone is warm and the sustain excellent. The only thing I don't like THAT much is that when you split the humbucker the volume drops significatively, which does NOT happen on my Charvel Jackson mod. 4. And there's no midrange boost as in the Charvel, but I don't miss it that much. But I believe that a good setup of the electronics could fix this.
When you set the humbucker "on", there's a nice boost in volume. Useful when you go from rhythm to solo. What else? Oh, it stays tuned very very well. :-)
@@DavideBaroni What about the vibrato? Is it OK for non-dive bomb use? And could you share some approximate weight, please?
@@stefanchernev4996 As far as I can understand, the vibrato is good. Once you have the right setup, it does its job remarkably well. I do not dive-bomb either, so vibrato is the only use I make of the tremolo, and I like it very much.
The whole guitar, including strap, weighs about 3.6 kg.
@@DavideBaroni Great! I will purchase it! Thanks!
The Phil Taylor (Gilmour's Guitar Tech) Black Strat book is in its 4th Edition and can only be purchased thru Amazon UK for about $40 (+$20 shipping). The original edition costs 10x more.
Sounds really good ! Just like the man himself
Thank you!
I have this set in a warmoth strat I built. They sound great for many types of music
That's not mentioned enough. The amount of tone you can coax out of that set-up is phenomenal. A friend of mine says it's like playing a Variax haha, he's not far off.
@@JeighNeither They only get more dynamic when you switch to the X series models.
God damn, every few years I come back and watch this video, I’ve never heard anyone get as close to Gilmore tone than you. Doyle, Snowy, none of them compared to your tone.
Absolutely inspiring tone
Thanks!
If you run EMGs with more voltage you can get more dynamics. Usually 27v is the maximum but not sure about the DG20 set. The manual for the boost circuits state a maximum input of 18v.
I got pretty lucky. Bought a dark red Mexican strat with these pickups in them for $280 total. I like them a LOT! I think I would prefer some good SRV-tone pickups that don't ever need a battery change in a main strat... But that means I'll need another one, because I don't want to get rid of the one I've got lol 😂
I bought a set of EMG SA. I noticed that the sound on your guitar is good, what height of pickups are you using? I wish mine sounded like yours! thanks!
The 57 Strat has one huge drawback - it is the truss rod adjustment nut in heel side, it’s always pain in one place to adjust it. I have 57 apple red with DG EMG set (old one: with old EMG logo and real wires inside NOT modern PCB) and it’s AMAZING! But this nut is killing me…
With these pickups he had the best sound of all time
Wow spot on 👍💪 great playing Bjorn
Thanks!
They're a great set of PU and EQ, i got mine back in 94, after reading about his setup probably in GP mag, bought the components and built it for my 93\4 Strat +.. that strat is gone, but the set still kicks, went through several of my strats along the years, and permanently resides on a MIJ plywood strat copy, with a great maple neck and a bone nut(original)..and it sounds beautiful.. also added an SPC to one of my strats, with an assortment of fender single coils on and, it's doing a great work with these passive PUs.. BTW..i really loved DG sound with that strat, 84 to my recollection :)
Nailed it. Gave me chills!
Have you tried the newer X series EMG’s? The SA-X, according to EMG, has more headroom and “bridges the gap between active and passive pickups”. Could be a good option for the noiseless qualities of EMG’s whilst sounding and feeling more like a traditional passive pickup.
Haven't tried them. I don't really use the EMGs that much but obviously, whenever I jam along to a 80s or 90s Floyd tune they're spot on.
Thanks for the EMG demo. This is actually the EMG DG20 David Gilmour Signature Pre-Wired Pickguard with Active SA PUs in Black or White Pearloid. It is plug n' play (no soldering). There are EXP and SPC functions in the Tone controls. A no brainer to install in your Strat to experiment chasing Gilmour's Tone. Good Luck. HaHa. I wouldn't put the EMG DG20 in an expensive Fender Custom Shop Strat. Buy a less expensive Strat to be used as an experimental platform for custom mods like PUs, Electronics, Bridges, Tremolo, Tuning Machines, etc. like a EVH Frankenstein.
Wow, they sure are nice pick ups. Thinking about swapping out my SQR pickups on my black Squire Contemporary Strat with something better. These seem to be winning.
I am so sick of people (like on TGP and other forums I do like being a member of) putting down EMG active pups saying passive has tone pups on Strats have more tone......which is a bunch of crap..I play mostly I guess you'd have to call high end Strats and I have EMG SAs in all of them! Not really Gilmore model but close enough EMG SAs are the best single coil pups ever. Clean, Over driven clean, crunch or loads of gain all sounds great with loads of output and plenty of midrange, I haven't tried the actual Gilmore ones which would be I guess would be adding active preamps. I don't use as much FX as Gilmore so not sure but I may try them sometime. Great demo and thanks! FYI...Im I have my own studio so I mostly record and produce my own stuff (I've been told by many I sound like Gilmore .....or my solos do which normally Id take as an insult to sound like anyone else as being original it the most important thing.... but I think its meant as a compliment...Id hate to change my style because I play like anyone else and yeah I am a fan he's on my top ten.... Id love to play some Gilmore solos if you can point me in the way of some good backing tracks for fun that's be great and Id appreciate it! Great video...Thanks again! Since I have 4 Strats with EMG SAs my next one is going to I guess have the Gilmore preamp.
I rarely use EMGs or active pickups but I enjoy their versatile tone alot. They may sound a bit more modern than typical vintage pickups but they can cover pretty much anything. It's a matter of taste. You'll find a bunch of Pink Floyd backingtracks on my site www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=64
Hi Bjorn, i am new to subscribe and would like to say thanks for all your information out there. Also i would really love to ask you for a little help. I am a huge David Gilmour fan and i have started to build my own black strat. For neck pickup i have bought a used CS middle fat 5O pickup few day ago, and i did not know that it was RWRP pickup, and seller didn't tell me.
Can i still use it in neck position together with CS 69 in the middle ans Ssl-5 in the bridge?
Thanks in advance.
Got these and they sound great. I got the signature Gilmour strings and those sounded to metallic
Strings are a matter of taste but I've always been using Ernie Ball. GHS are too bright for my taste and the quality control is horrible.
amazing bjorn .....great men...
Thanks!
Excellent playing
Thank you!
Hi, Just found your video here, listened to it, and wanted to say i really enjoyed your phrasing and feeling!
Thank you!
Wait? Isn't it Gilmour's phrasing? And isn't the feel borrowed from him? To play it accurately is to mimic the proper feel; that's just how lead playing works. Try playing Little Wing without the proper feel. I just doesn't work. I'll give him all the kudos in the world for his fantastic playing, but the phrasing & feel belong to Gilmour.
@@JeighNeither : / uhhh NO! I was praising that persons OWN FEELING AND GUITAR PLAYING! THROUGH HIS OWN HEART, SOUL AND HANDS.. THOSE WERE HIS. HE WAS PAYING TRIBUTE TO DAVID, BUT DOING IT, THROUGH HIMSELF!
The EMG DG20 kit is the best EMG active pickups I've used - (I've got the Hetfield set as well, also pretty good...). Fitted to my 2009 'Beck-Gilmour' Deluxe. A perfect combination. Using the 18v conversion (hidden in the spring cavity).
What does the 18v conversion do? Thanks!
Yea whats it do!?
18v mod gives the pickups a bit more headroom. Little less compression
Superb tone!!!
Thank you!
They sound amazing.
Very cool video Bjorn and I'm still loving A Storm is Coming. Lately I'm really feeling When Rain Falls. Love the jazz influence in it and how the slow bluesy leads mesh with it and the ambience. Very nice.
Really happy to see you do a pickup review with commentary and demos. Would LOVE to see you do ome like this of your David Allen Voodoo 69s (in addition to your much older playimg only demo) . I have a new Fender Player strat with surprisingly good Alnico 5 pickups but I'm always tempted to get your voodoos or Fender custom shop 69s. The Fenders are cheaper are easier to get but my impressions is D Allen are a bit higher quality?
Thanks! To your question, the SA are.solid pickups but i much prefer your voodoos.
SidFi20 Thanks for the kind words!
Amazing guitar. Wow. Keep on playing. Magical
Thanks!
Hi Bjorn, don't know if you still see comments on these older videos - but worth a shot :) I want to put EMG SA's in one of my guitars (a MusicMan Cutlass) but I'll have to re-use the existing pickguard which only has space/holes for two knobs. A volume and one "slot" for a tone related control. Not sure if I want to install a traditional passive tone control OR put the SPC in there. What are your thoughts? On strats I generally like to have the option to roll off tone a bit, especially on the bridge. Wondering if the SPC effect could be just as easily achieved on the pedal board? Thanks!
David’s EMGs are a combination of the 3 active SA single coils and the 2 active SPC and EXG tone controls. The SA pickups alone doesn’t really do much. They sound like duller version of late 60s era single coils. The SPC mid range booster in particular is what makes all the difference. You can compensate to some degree by adding an EQ first in your chain boosting the 400hz range but it’s not the same.
@@gilmourishofficial Thanks, that's really useful. I'll order the SPC module as well then. With the EMG solderless system it's easy to experiment, and luckily those parts aren't too expensive either ;)
Hello. First of all... it sounds great. I hope to play like this one day. Question... you didn't use any pedal, distortion or other device to create the Gilmore sound.
Thanks! Yes I did as it says in the video. However this was a demonstration of the pickups so I didn’t pay attention to the pedals.
I bought the DG20 and it is killer 💥
I wonder what Gilmour thinks about your playing? I hope he'd be extremely flattered.
Thank you! I honestly don’t think he care :)
gilmourish RIIS that would be a shame!
@@gilmourishofficial you're a master in what you're doing, the least he can be is to be flattered as said befor.
@@gilmourishofficial AMAZING playing! Do these pickups basically just make a humbucker sound by adding those mid frequencies?
I've got a Duncan Custom Custom full size bucker in the bridge of my strat which has alnico 2 magnets and absolutely NAILS the "Comfortably Numb" 2nd solo, but I'm not going into a clean amp, I'm going into a soldano astroverb, which is like a Marshall JCM800 amount of gain.
I suppose it all comes down to where you are getting your gain and output from... pickups, active pickups, pedals or an amp's preamp gain section...
... aaaand now I have to buy a Big Muff! :)
@@StratMatt777 Do these pickups basically just make a humbucker sound by adding those mid frequencies? The second Tone control is an SPC system that boosts the mids to replicate a humbucker sound. Check out this video and he mentions it around 1:05 - ruclips.net/video/QQEyuu4vbZA/видео.html
6:07 7:29 solo omfg❤️
Right ,,got all the stuff... now I need Gilmours hands ✋️
Bra!
Kan godt lide de nye videoer du laver, Bjørn! :)
Ærlige. Du får mig til at le.
Now I’m sold on these pickups
hi björn, within my strat are the EMG pickups, bought in 1980 pure without midrange control, I think I don´t need it for a gilmour sound.
very important is the right amp and the effects. the solo strat tone of dave on records are always differend to the life sound
Woahhhh! I can’t play at all an I’m getting one to look at when I listen to the vinyl.wow
Love the Rock Steady shirt!
Thanks! Kiss fan since early 80s!
wow wow wow..that sound with the pink Floyd backingtrack is sooo..perfect!... thnxxx..i will buy this set and your feel and fingers!😂😂❤😂❤
I have them in my stratocaster a vital part to my tone. I just completed a cover of Run Like Hell on my channel with it too.
greetings...
dig the channel
good work
out of curiosity, maybe i missed it, where do you put the battery in the strat?
under the pickguard or did you route a battery compartment?
thanks in advance
be safe, be happy, work hard
peace \m/
Thank you! The battery is under the pickguard. Under the tone pots.
Hello boss, thank you for all that you do. quick qn:
I'm thinking of getting my first strat.
options im considering are:
fender thin skin 54 fsr
Fender Strat ST54-85LS MIJ
eric johnson strat
American prof
I really like gilmour like tones and I tend to play like that mostly. but its nice to have something that's versatile ofc.
can change pickups and stuff ofc but which would you suggest?
and is it difficult to set up for active pickups on guitar with passive?
thanks so much man
My best tip is to try a bunch of guitars and decide on the one that suits your needs and playing style the most. All of these will cover David's tones but an instrument is a subjective thing. Pickups are easily replaced.
@@gilmourishofficial thanks man, sounds good
Hello Bjorn, im curious on how you record guitar. What interface do you use? Maybe you could do a video dedicated on how you record guitar? You always seem to get this vintage sound when recording that I just can't listen to anywhere else..
Thanks! I will. Been planning that for some time now but I will :)
Impressive sustain
That's what she said?
Hi Sir, found you just today..grat!! Do you think (or know) if is possible to place on left-hand guitar ?? Greetings from Italy
Oh... I really don't know. I haven't really though about how the magnets are aligned or working inside the pickups. Check out the EMG site for some info. Welcome to my channel!
tks a lot, nice day.
Great Tones Pal! Do you prefer the Buffalo FX TD-X over the BK Butler Tube Driver?
Actually I do. The Tube Driver is perhaps more dynamic, with the tube so I often use it for recording, but the TDX is easier to set up on different types of amps. Slightly more balanced in the top end.
Have you tried the Joyo Dyna Compressor? I saw someone mention it a long time ago on the website and that it sounds like a CS-2/ Ross Clone. I was wondering if you have tried it yet and if it sounds good.
Haven’t tried it.
Awesome Video man!!
Thanks!
Idk if u already have but it would be cool if you did a tone comparison to normal 50s single coils
I just bought this set up. They sound great and the midrange boost is great and very useful. But the Treble & Bass boost sounds digital and harsh. Not very useful at all.
Is it possible to take off that EXG pot and replace it with a Tone pot,
Or is it all just one unit?
I don’t think you can replace the pots on the current version. It’s one set.
I didn’t think so. I know they sell the SA’s without the boosts. Wonder if you can buy those then just add the SPC?
Now I know why red strat era is my fav! SPC!!!