how about the improvement of flutter when you hit the whammy bar? longer, same?

Would the GZR PJ's also fit?

Well played!

Taj Mahal is very under celebrated as the treasure he is…. Well done buddy

Man, that first riff you're playing is so cool. What song is that, or just something you came up with?

Nice change, I love it, they used to have an australian bass Maton that had cream loaded pickups in the 80s

Can you demo those PUPs, please? There are so few demos out there... thanks.

Have you played with lowering EMG pickup heights on the neck and middle, more than you had? It may mellow them put a tad for output. Bridge was quite close.

Thanks for the demo. Great playing and tones! I’d love to hear the stock pickups compared to the EMG crossroads pickups. I think the cross roads and stock pickups are more similar than the mavericks and stock pickups.

Sounded great! Nice job!

I replaced my Edge 3 with a Gotoh. What a difference in sustain! Had to shim the Gotoh to match my neck radius and drill new holes for the posts (used FR posts as they are smaller diameter), but what a nice difference.

stock better for good vintage tele tone

hello, its the SPC control active on this demo?

Can you please test with roundwound string?

Man, those EMGs are straight to the point and fantastic clarity. Stock pups sound good too, but the difference in the lows makes it seem like a worthwhile upgrade.

EMGs have a lot of clarity, but no body!

Sweet tone, not too twangy like most teles, but I dont hear the boost hitting any preamp tubes very hard, just beefs up the tone from my speakers. Are you using a tube amp? Or modeler. Where did you tuck the 9v?

Nice. But what kind of picks were you using?

AWESOME PLAYING MATE!! I preferred the stock pickups clean but the emgs when you played the dirtier stuff :)

Lovely tones but more important fantastic playing !

Nice job man! Cool strat too! I hope you dig the upgrades!

I got a TRBX174 a couple of weeks ago and had wondered about pickup upgrades but hearing the stock ones against the EMGs, I prefer the stock sound! Thanks for doing the demo!

What do you think about the 24v mod for the pj?

original --- much better.

I was thinking about getting this but i dont think i will anymore. There isn't much difference in sustain to justify it i think. I put Steve Vai Gravity and Storm pickups in my guitar and its funny because when i did it, i was using a boss GT100 and really wasnt liking the guitar or the GT100. Couple years later i got an AxeFx 3 and still didnt really touch that guitar because it was cheap even though it had the Steve Vai pickups. I put new strings on last week, chose a high gain tone i made for one of my other guitars and i am blown away at this guitar now. The pickups are Djenty AF with that trebly high end sound you hear in progressive metal. The clarity is way better than my other guitars so im just going through everything i can to push it in anyway i can. If you're having tuning issues, i would highly recommend new springs. I got some "noiseless" springs from Amazon for my other guitar and it fixed that issue so i bought some new noiseless springs for this guitar and im sure itll fix my tiny tuning problem. New strings obviously help but that's literally half the battle because the springs are the other half and if one doesnt return to zero, it will have a direct correlation to string pitch on the strings.

Creo que ajusto el amplificador de la misma manera ... y puede que ahi este el porque que se escuchen asi... creo que las pickups squier originales tienen un sonido más moderno que las EmG que como el nombre lo indica; son mas limpias.

The stock pickups sounded surprisingly good but EMGs all the way for me, a much richer sound.

If you put a hi mass bridge it improves much more!

Zak from Dragon Tales how do you know him?

Beautiful! Thank you.

Classic Vibe is my fav mod guitar, great bodies and neck to start with as projects

I feel like a lot of these comments are fed by “i read actives we’re bad on the internet”.

I appreciate your work and I can hear the difference with headphones, I find the originals to my liking. The EMG”s gave and almost compressed, somewhat flat sounding response. A long time ago I put a set of Shaller (sic I believe) PBX in a Squire P bass and while being “hotter” they also gave a similar compressed response.

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To my ears the original pickups sounded better. Great comparison. Was going to put the EMG T-52 set in a Tele, but now reconsidering. Don’t want the Tele buzz Do want the Tele tone. Don’t want to spend a fortune on Fishman Fluence Tele gristle. Thanks for the comparison 👍

So you can just replace the tone knob with the spc and everything functions as it should? (Minus tone control obviously) I read a review of a person replacing the tone knob with the spc like you did and he said it made his guitar sound thin and terrible so I was hoping he just did wrong lol. My strat is sss with one volume, one tone and a toggle switch for a gilmore mod but I never use my tone knob so I wanted to replace it with the spc.

I ve change my strings from normal to cobalt - the greatest improvement ever

Originals sound better to me more lively. Character. Eng sound more dead to me

Nice tone, Man! Does it only work with EMG pickups?

T52’s it is then lol

Bravo! It's beautiful...

Bravo‼️ You had better play the classic guitar🤔

EMGs‼️✨🎸🎶Hands Down for me & my custom “Hot Rod”🔥 PJ Bass‼️✨🎸🎶🤣👌🏾👍🏾

If you play alone, practice. Originals is good, you can choose sound you like. Once recording in the mix, EMG will show the value.

The Yamaha 174 is a great bass for the money. Thanks for the video comparison, lots of work involved. I like the stock pickups better, warmer tone to me. The stock J bridge pickup hums a bit, so I recommend a J Humbucker replacement from Seymour Duncan or something similar.

Fantabulous. You owned it, Andrew! One of my all time favorite good--feeling jams.

What set didi you buy exactly?

I agree with you on the single coil hum. I'ts awful. Do you know how these pickups might compare to the EMG FT pickups.I'm not a high gain player mild overdrive for lead is mostly what use and I like clarity without the Icepick in the forehead kind of brightness. Do you have a recommendation the T52 or the standard EMGs?

Call me crazy, but I got this guitar, in mango veneer, bu the stock pick-ups sound better to me.

Nice demo! Sounds like the set isn't properly matched, as the bridge position (J) has got a considerably lower output than the "neck" (P). I had the same issue with my ca. 1999/2000's set - whereas the ones I bought in the mid 80s were absolutely *perfect* . I *never* should've sold them! Dunno what they've done to screw up what used to be a fine PU set, but they certainly did it - for whatever reason. Lesson learned: If it's got to be EMGs, make sure you get a used set from the 80s!