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Posted by: Roadside Mar 6 2009, 03:32 PM

I looked at the tutorial of Marcus, which was brilliant. Anyway is it harder to install active pickups or can I do this by myself too?

Thanks

Posted by: Stephane Lucarelli Mar 6 2009, 03:45 PM

Hi !
Active pickups are no harder to install.
The schematics should be available on the compagny website.
Which pickups are you looking for?

Posted by: Roadside Mar 6 2009, 03:48 PM

emg 81 adn 85 or emg 81 and 60

Posted by: fatb0t Mar 6 2009, 03:50 PM

Well if you have passive pick ups currently you'll need to find a place to but the battery for the active ones.

Posted by: ZakkWylde Mar 6 2009, 04:54 PM

You will have to replace all your pots, find a spot for a 9volt battery and connect it and finally solder the new pickups in...

My advice: Take your guitar to the store and tell them *I will buy a set of EMGs IF you guys install them for free!*

Posted by: Muris Varajic Mar 6 2009, 04:55 PM

Brilliant

Posted by: ZakkWylde Mar 6 2009, 05:18 PM

Believe it or not, that's how I got EMGs into my Zakk Wylde Signature Les Paul!

Posted by: Muris Varajic Mar 6 2009, 05:25 PM

Did they install them for free?

Posted by: ZakkWylde Mar 6 2009, 08:09 PM

Yes they did!

Hey it's a deal of 200Euros for the store and half an hour of work 4 free or no deal at all...I always narrow things down when I go shopping

Posted by: jer Mar 6 2009, 08:12 PM

The store I go to here does that too. If you ask.

Its good business.

Posted by: MickeM Mar 6 2009, 10:25 PM

That's smart thinking!! Thanks for the tip, I'll make use of it sometime!

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Mar 6 2009, 11:23 PM

Don't forget to inspect the guitar after they do their job. Sometimes they can wire something wrong, and when you come home and you find out, later they will possibly want a fee. There are slim chances for this to happen, but checking in the store is something that is good idea to do nevertheless, just to make sure.

Posted by: mhskeide Mar 6 2009, 11:54 PM

Doesn`t the ZW signature already have the lethal EMG-combination? Even the Epi version?

At least I thought so

Posted by: Muris Varajic Mar 6 2009, 11:57 PM

Even more brilliant.

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Mar 6 2009, 11:59 PM

Possibly he inserted other EMG combo, I would like to hear what as well

If so, it's not so easy to install actives in the passive pups guitar, cause you have to make a battery cavity, which is a bit more work. Don't know.. it's best to check with guitar tech in the area mate, and see how much this pleasure will cost you!

Posted by: ZakkWylde Mar 7 2009, 01:00 AM

Only the Gibson Zakk Wylde Signatures come with active 81/85 pickups...

The Epiphone Zakk Wylde Les Pauls only come with the passive EMG Hz humbuckers, which are pretty horrible imo! EMG has no talent in passive guitar pickups, the diffrence after the swap was like night and day!
Aside from the pickups, it's one of the best epiphones to buy (and the ONLY factory built les Paul with maple necks!)

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Mar 7 2009, 02:55 AM

Thats smart thinging ! We shouldn't hasitate to bargain with salesman , after all - the costumer is always right!

Regarding active pickups instead of passive ones...I don't know , it can be done, but it can be tricky if there is no space to put the 9v batterie/es needed for operation of pickups.Its best to leave that job to a proffesional.

Posted by: Roadside Mar 7 2009, 02:42 PM

Thats what they said yesterday!

Musicstore zakk?

Anyway, I´m going for Seymour Duncans SH2 and SH4, I like their high crying sound much more than the emg´s

Edit: I´ll give my guitar into the hands of a professional, though I just wanted to do something at "her" by myself