I already have the bridge 7. Might wait to see if I can make a profit😂

Shhhhss dont state the Obvious cause when I did he got upset ;)

No one get upset my guy. I don't care what anyone says about a guitar pickup. I hope you have a great day :)

@@RiffsAndBeards Letterkenny fan identified

@@RiffsAndBeards ignore the trolls lol. But in all seriousness how did you like it? Does it all compare to the micks pick up? Or do you think it has its own sauce

Nah I’m with you. At this point if a bought a guitar with Emgs I wouldn’t change them. I’ll just get a six band eq if wanted them to sound a bit different

The classics

They are unstoppable, try an 85 in bridge if you ever get the feeling

At some point you listen to your ears and realize that EMG pickups sound awesome haha

@@mindthedrift. its not like 90% of metal albums have an EMG on it, nah they must suck!

They’re the same pickups. It’s just a rebrand.

they are

I would be some serious money on it. I've never met anyone who actually had a blackout set.

@@CommanderOfChicken I do.

😂😂

Lmao 🤣🤣🤣

Welcome to the riff side.

@@SamBrockmann built Duncan tough

Nothing heavier than a truck

My thoughts too.

Would have been nice to hear a different guitar through the same setup to show how much was from the guitar and how much was from the rest of the chain. I would guess that the pickups sound like any other pickups and he just had a nice tone from the setup it was going through.

Thank the guitar speaker and EQ settings, not the pickups

It's funny tho cause the video is called "Do Aftermarket Pickups Matter Anymore?" yet everyone insists its called 'Pickups Don't Matter'. Mandela Effect or something.

@@RiffsAndBeards well we found out real quick that those Fluff Fishmans certainly dont matter anymore lol. who are you gonna endorse next week? lol

@@adamkahn8645I was with Fishman for 10 years ya chode

​@@RiffsAndBeards ​ so it took 8 years to get your own Fishman, and youve already jumped ship. just making observations lol. what it tells me is either Fishman is garbage or its a money grab. either is fine with me, just making observations.

@@adamkahn8645 MY best guess, Fluff didn't end up using the multiple voices on the Fishmans that much, what happens is when you change pickup modes is you are going to end up then wanting to change your settings on the amp. It ends up being just annoying imo. It is much more logical for you to just have, a bridge pickup you like a neck one, done. No modes to make you want to mess with your gear and settings instead of just playing I only have the Fishman classic set, but the multi voice thing is imo almost a scam. The second mode on the bridge just sounds louder with even more treble, the second voice on the neck idk who likes that or why, it sounds disgustingly hollow and weird. The regular neck mode is far superior. As far as I can tell virtually no one with working ears like the second bridge voice on the Fishman modern set, it is like blasting treble through your ear, and no one uses it, everyone uses the modern mode over it, and again the second voice on the neck sucks. The single coil modes all sound extremely thin and grating on my ears, like the pickups were not bright enough already. Good god the sounds I hear online from those are truly awful. If you want to hear good things about Fishman. The modern set if you just use the regular modes, it is good. It will cut through a mix very well without being too ice picky. The way they do not lose any treble at all when you lower your volume is very very nice. The classic set it sounds like a JB with even more of something going on in the mids, if you are to be honest the classic set is basically a JB 59 set with the ability to be quieter or louder, again the way your volume doesnt change your tone is very nice. On EMGs turning down your volume still changes the sound a bit, not anything like passives, but not as perfect as the Fishman. Fishman are not garbage and you acting like they are is what we call being a child. I can tell you the negatives but the idea they are garbage, sorry that is just dumb.

Blackouts sound fantastic and have some great bottom end on my e flat guitar!

and before a lynch mob comes for me..... thats not an insult to the EMTY pickups. I used EMTY's before switching to Fishman Adler's

My Jazzmaster came with EMG 81/60 set

@@RiffsAndBeards oh that’s right, the white one has the Daemoniums, my b. How do these Duncan’s compare to the 81/60 then?

I bet they are just renamed

Awaiting for chrome/gold version

I just picked up the mick Thomson blackouts and put them in my arrow 1000 tuned to B. Absolute love them.

Glenn the prick, you mean?

Who is that

@MeatCatCheesyBlaster , a jackass who runs another guitar-based channel. He is very bombastic, is seemingly incapable of keeping his opinion on religion to himself, and hasn't enjoyed any metal that has come out since basically 1990 but claims to be a metalhead.

@@MeatCatCheesyBlasterno one important, just a loud guy who thinks he knows everything

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Just meant you will at least look into them at some point.

most of the djent guitarists i know use active pickups 😅

Only to then squash the hell out of them with compression anyway. You can absolutely play the same music with actives. Many do.

​@@chidbro23 Periphery, Architects, Meshuggah, Tesseract, Northlane, Sleep Token, etc. All these dudes play passive

No

@@colelewis9940 Thanks...I thought not but wanted to ask. The focus seems to be the chugs, so split sounds is probably best left to other pickups.

I love Jeff's pups. What don't you like about them compared to micks?

@@DavidJosephBoth The set in my Loomis soloist are incredibly noisy I even took it to a tech who said all the wiring was good and he checked all the soldering. Maybe I got a bad batch but my EMTYs are dead quiet. Even with the noise gate it's hard to get clean chugs. I want to like them but they annoy me.

@@gaberox1 That's interesting, I have a set of the Loomis pickups and mine are fairly quiet. It is possible that there's something wrong with your set or some other component causing an issue. But yeah if you're looking for clean chugs and low noise I think this Alt.Metal set will work just fine.

@@nvmbrsdoom5 Ya it's a total bummer I'm kinda wanting to just sell the soloist and get Jeff's Jackson Kelly instead. That guitar is so sick.

Well, first of all it doesn’t work like oh you have convinced me ok you got me. It’s more like, you’ve had every kind of pizza ever created for 10 years and maybe a sandwich simply sounds good now. Like that.

slightly tweaked and rebranded yep

@@RiffsAndBeards ok so I’m not crazy. But what is kinda weird to me, is that I could have sworn I saw these also on a Bill Kelliher guitar before he went to mojotone? But instead of it being a black set it was a gold cover. Also you left fishman?

Don’t need one with hot pickups like this.

Next you’re gonna say the 6505 is a rebranded 5150

@@RiffsAndBeards Similar but not the same thing at all and the Duncan's ARE IN FACT Thomson's without the name attached ;)

I think your math is a little off there brother

​@@colelewis9940 you're right, the pickup set is actually $258. The implication is that we already have humbuckers in our guitar, so what would be the reason for the swap? They're just humbuckers, they all sound pretty much the same, and "pretty much the same" will be even less noticeable in an environment where people are going to hear your music, like at a gig or in a recording.

@@MichaelSheaAudio So you are just totally against changing pickups, thats cool man.

@@colelewis9940 Not totally. I change pickups for aesthetics or output. I prefer higher output pickups, especially for coil splitting. It's just wild that reviewers still talk about pickups as if they have specific tonal qualities that set them apart from other pickups. They might be a little different when clean, but put any gain on and those minor differences start to disappear. Plus we have EQ in pedal form or in a DAW, so you can just change the sound coming out of your guitar if you want. There are other parts of the signal chain that will have a significant impact on your tone, pickups only make a tiny difference. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@@MichaelSheaAudio "It's just wild that reviewers still talk about pickups as if they have specific tonal qualities that set them apart from other pickups. They might be a little different when clean, but put any gain on and those minor differences start to disappear" Sounds like you have severe hearing loss, are you old? If you cant tell the difference between a 57 style Gibson humbucker and an EMG 81, your ears are literally broken. I agree the differences aren't as big as some might be led to believe, but you are taking that to an extreme and illogical place. There is more to tone than just smoke on the water powerchords, if you cant tell the difference with trying to play a Decapitated song with a dimarzio tone zone and a EMG 81, there is something going on with your ears. It is more than just output.

Not with Fishman anymore🫣

One of the most brutal and overlooked pickups.

Absolutely agree. The Gibson 496R/500T made me fall in love with ceramic pickups forever. They remain my favorite set to this day. 😃

The 500T is so sick. I bought an old Flying V that came with one stock in the bridge; sounded so good I never bothered changing it. The Dirty Fingers is also another killer Gibson high gain pickup. I’ve got a 1979 Les Paul Custom with a set that’s absolutely killer.

The number of people in the comments that don’t get how endorsements work is surprising.

Damn someone has some TRAUMA sheesh

Oasis.

Nobody is heavier than morissette

Mountain Dew or go homeeeeeee

@@RiffsAndBeards it better be Baja blast or voltage

“I love pizza. I will only ever eat pizza for the rest of my life. Nothing else ever again.” -no one ever

Do you not know how endorsements work lol

It’s just a video my guy. Take a breath.

@@RiffsAndBeards hey man I made the statement with no animosity or anger . Just that when I started playing guitar lots of people told me for heavy music use active. After spending hard earned high school money I was truly disappointed. All's I was trying to say is people should say... example,"for me" active pickups are a must for metal. But anyway thanks for one of the top ten guitar channels, reviews and bad ass playing,youz definitely go hard man

@@damonstewart70 I simply meant if you play heavy music, at some point you are gonna check out actives. Thats all :)

Like I say in the video this isn't a review, just a demo. Now move along.

It’s still a video about pickups you’re getting paid for bro. Going against your own narrative. Plus you made your JR look basic.