Help needed for EMG pickups installation

[Nino Valenti]

You can use the preamp with the EMG's that you have. I would replace the Volume and blend of the original preamp and use 2 volume that came with the EMG's. Usually, ESP basses have passive pickups with the active preamp.

Also, I would replace the input jack with the one supplies by EMG. The one on the ESP preamp is CHEAP!!!!

 

[Moonsoft]

but I want 18V, and people around say the ESP preamp it's only for 9V.
Isn't there a way to remove the preamp and just send the pickups to the jack?
Would it loose any quality if I sent the pickups signal directly to the jack and forget the volume and tone?

 

[BadB]

If you want to run 18v, you are probably going to have to ditch the stock preamp. In that case, simply remove it and use the two volume and two tone that came with your new pickups. Or...purchase a new preamp that can handle 18v and install accordingly. Why are you so set on using 18v?

 

[Moonsoft]

according to the official website the EMGs have a better full sound with this kind of power.

 

[rptrsn2]

if you want 18v loose the esp preamp and just go with what you have already purchased from emg. i still can't figure how to post a wire diagram but i,m trying.

 

[chump stain]

I wired my EMGs up with a 9 volt. I'm sure 18 volt is not that different, maybe someone can help you. Controls are Vol, Vol, Tone, Tone. So you would have 1 unused hole, maybe wire a kill switch up or something. (click my webpage below, to see Buckethead use the kill switch.)

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the red blobs are supposed to be capasators.

 

[rptrsn2]

for 18v take black wire from diagram cut and connect to red wire of othe battery jack the black from second battery jack to the other end of black wire you cut 2R ======[+ -]---B---[+ -]---B----

 

[Moonsoft]

chump stain, you are the only one who understoond what I needed, thanks man
now I'll sold the stuff and see what happens.

 

[chump stain]

Cool! Let us know how it sounds when you get it up and running! I loved the sound of the EMGs I had.

 

[BadB]

chump stain, you are the only one who understoond what I needed, thanks man
now I'll sold the stuff and see what happens.

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[Moonsoft]

OK, I sold everything as the diagram, and now I have a distorted sound and low volume, what does this mean?

 

[ErebusBass]

Hmmmm I should remind you that I don't understand much about this such as blend pots or the 100K and 50K, I just need to know what to connect where, and if I have to buy something, a link to this item, because I don't know anything.
I just bought the pickups and wanted to play :/

If you have an EMG preamp, you can download a wiring diagram for that. It will show you what you need to connect where. The diagrams they send with the pickups are pretty useless.

 

[ErebusBass]

OK, I sold everything as the diagram, and now I have a distorted sound and low volume, what does this mean?

you hooked up the battery wrong.

 

[Moonsoft]

here a sample of the result...

 

[Moonsoft]

you hooked up the battery wrong.

How exactly the battery is hooked up wrong? reversed?

 

[chump stain]

All the wiring diagrams are available at Link Removed

yeah, but he wanted 2 volumes, and 2 tone knobs. I think that's where the problem was, the EMG diagrams show for 1 pickup, or 2 pickups, with 1 tone knob for both.

Moonsoft, I wish I knew what was causing the bad sound. Good Luck!

 

[Moonsoft]

there was this cable that connects to the pickup, and it was upside down, and now the sound is normal again
Now I just need to adjust the strings, or change to heavy strings..

 

[chump stain]

Awesome! You'll love those EMGs. You wont like changing the batterys though Always have some with you at a gig!

 

[dean owens]

glad it all worked out for you. now if you don't like the hole you have in your bass just put a dummy pot there. no one has to know that it doesn't do anything.

 

[Moonsoft]

glad it all worked out for you. now if you don't like the hole you have in your bass just put a dummy pot there. no one has to know that it doesn't do anything.

yep, already put a dummy. thanks everyone!