EMG EMG-GC21 SA Prewired Pickguard Set 

Comments about EMG-GC21 SA Prewired Pickguard Set:

These pickups get it done.In 30min. you playin' an got good tone.Sustain,well seems like the mity mite strat copy that I've built,hangs in there longer than my US Strat Plus with gold lace and my 78 Les Paul Custom Humbuckers.Not as Hot as the humbucker but close.But I get Sustain Gilmours Coming back to life,Wow.Now I aint got 5 Hi Watts heads. But IF YA close your eyes and listen.Mid notch roll the top tone to bout 7 little delay an your in the pink.

Comments about EMG-GC21 SA Prewired Pickguard Set:

I have a '99 Deluxe Series Strat with additional PB switch for that Tele sound on pickguard. Had EMG's active presence control for a few years. Tried putting a split-humbucker rail in bridge. Still not happy with sound. OK, EMG active presence back in, but looking for more. EMG's GC-21 assembly comes along at the right time and price. Excellent tones throughout entire range of guitar- soft, silky neck P/U sound, mid P/U is unusually bright, combination very sweet! Bridge P/U beyond brightness to unerving. Mid and bridge P/U just slightly raspy together. All in all P/U's are wonderful. Crisp lower tones and Brilliant highs. BIG PRO- YOU CAN HAVE THESE P/U'S SOOO CLOSE TO THE STRINGS W/O ANY NOISE FOR MAX OUTPUT W/O NOISE!!!! Only issue I have is I could not get the pickguard switch to operate for the Tele sounds. Called EMG, they could not get it to work, BUT THEY ARE LOOKING INTO IT. I got a response the same day I called them. Amazing! For your own dinstinct sound check this product out. It just may be what you're looking for.

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I recently purchased this item. Botton line upfront - AWESOME! I installed this in a MIM 1997 Fender Strat I bought new 14 years ago. This guitar is now smoking. I had two original stock fender pickups and a duncan hot-rails in the bridge. It was competent but not at all spectacular. That has now changed. This blows it away. Clean or distortion, this guitar now sounds incredible. The sound will be better than you can imagine. No disappointments at all.Installation was very easy. As advertised no soldering. You remove the 11 screw pick -guard and connect three cables and repalce you cable plug. Rescrew the new pick guard in and that it. The biggest challenge was finding enough room for the battery.

Comments about EMG-GC21 SA Prewired Pickguard Set:

I've had this on my strat for almost 2 years now, and all I can say is these things will not let you down, no matter what style of music you play!! These do the job! I put this on my first ever own fender strat, and the guitar has been my main guitar ever since I installed these on it! I've gigged with it play from funk/fusion, blues, to latin rock, to pop rock, to indie... These fit every style perfectly! I mostly use the bridge and neck positions, but once in a while I'll use the middle+neck position, and I get a very jazzy sound. I love it! And I promise you, you will not lose that stratocaster sound! Very very easy to install, only thing I did was I extended the battery cable and ran it to the back of the guitar, in between the springs.. I made my bridge to where it's in contact with the body, since I use my whammy only for a bit of tremolo.. This with the delay and a little bit of OD, AMAZING!!! Don't think twice and get these! They won't let you down!

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'90s vintage Lotus Strat copy made in India, wonderful neck and action, terrible pickup hum. Previously tried shielding body cavity, no joy. Decided on this set after extensive shopping. Website said available 1/24, I figured OK, I'll wait. These were on my doorstep today 1/14 and in the guitar in a couple of hours. Installation was easy; only mods to guitar: expand output jack wire channel to 7/16", drill two holes for pickguard mounting. Instructions clear, with color illustrations and suggested pickup height; 9v battery did not fit in suggested area so I mounted it between neck and middle pickups with adhesive Velcro. Plugged it in to my Marshall MG30DFX and noodled around for hours exploring the tone, but I've just begun. First impressions: Strat tone is intact, clearer than ever, and sustain and string balance are wonderful. Finding harmonics I never knew existed. Chords and riffs clear and ringing. This one's gone from the plain-Jane in the corner to the belle of the ball, for me.

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I dropped this into my MexiStrat and like a previous reviewer said, it went from a $300 guitar to a $2000 guitar... I had a HotRails in it before in the bridge and the stock pickups for the other two. I had no idea the tones that I would be able to get out of the guitar... my normal clean tone with delay now sounds dead on the early Chris Isaak stuff with Jimmy Wilsey(Wicked Game, etc...). When needed though it can definitely rock out!

Comments about EMG-GC21 SA Prewired Pickguard Set:

I installed this on a Mexican Strat that I bought dirt cheap on Ebay, and am a HUGE Gilmour fan, and wanted better sound than the crappy pickups the guitar came with. Installation was a breeze! NO soldering, and the sound is amazing! Night and Day, sounds like a $2000 custom strat now.

Comments about EMG-GC21 SA Prewired Pickguard Set:

I installed these in a custom Warmoth Strat and I am very pleased with the numerous tones that I can enjoy. The SA pickup is a wonderful product and it's very quiet. I primarily play clean with a little MXR Delay through a Sansamp DI and I can experience rich ringing tones throughout the scale. If they can't play clean, they can't play dirty, and they do produce some rich harmonics when you push the gain. You can hold a note forever. If you have a strat and your looking for the next level, this is it. I can image that these would even make a Mexi sound good. Enjoy my fellow Stradivarius!

Comments about EMG-GC21 SA Prewired Pickguard Set:

This product is amazing. I installed it in less than a half hour and was playing in no time. The only way to describe the quality is that I went from Toyota to Rols Royce in a half hour. The pickup ups set was easy to install and I found that the tremolo access minus a spring is where the batter found it's new home. Awesome product.

Comments about EMG-GC21 SA Prewired Pickguard Set:

I had just bought a 1989 Japanese strat and I wasn't so convinced about buying it at first just because it was made in Japan.. I was so used to playing ibanez guitars that playing a strat just wasn't my style.. well I ended up buying the start, of course it has all the original things on it so first thing I changed were the pickups, so I bought these EMG's, I couldn't be any happier now! if you want a really clean and strong tone, these are the ones! I like to play mostly a sort of latin rock with a mix of blues and funk. So these definitely fit my style. great great tone!! I strongly recommend these for you! very quiet also! it also has a kick when you hit that distortion. Every note you play couldn't come out any clearer!! AWESOME!