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I have a 2002 DKMG equipped with EMG-H3's and the Turboboost, which I understand is the EMG Afterburner.
I bought this guitar new in 2002 and I'm trying to understand - why the hate for the H3's? I've always seen them as a pretty versatile pickup. I can set my amp to deliver a couch with the bridge H3, and then kicking in a bit of the turbo bust pushes it into shredding overdrive. On the neck pickup, I roll the volume back a bit and get a good blues lead tone.
I'm starting to think that the H3 and other HZ's may have been designed to be used with the Afterburner.. just take an active EMG and move the preamp off board and make it adjustable. And over time various manufacturers just deleted the afterburner to save cost, resulting in a deployment scenario that EMG never initially intended but just went along with.
Could it be that all the hate for HZ's is because people are using them without the intended Afterburner?
I bought this guitar new in 2002 and I'm trying to understand - why the hate for the H3's? I've always seen them as a pretty versatile pickup. I can set my amp to deliver a couch with the bridge H3, and then kicking in a bit of the turbo bust pushes it into shredding overdrive. On the neck pickup, I roll the volume back a bit and get a good blues lead tone.
I'm starting to think that the H3 and other HZ's may have been designed to be used with the Afterburner.. just take an active EMG and move the preamp off board and make it adjustable. And over time various manufacturers just deleted the afterburner to save cost, resulting in a deployment scenario that EMG never initially intended but just went along with.
Could it be that all the hate for HZ's is because people are using them without the intended Afterburner?