Power Your EMGs without a battery? Believe it!

JeffTD said:
Kind of lame, IMO - the place this would be most useful is on tour, since you wouldn't have to every worry about batteries, but this also won't work with a wireless system.
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Its a niche product for sure, but EMG offers a lot of products that only appeal to 1-2% of their overall user base, and I think thats pretty cool. Sure, its impractical and useless for a great number of guys, but there are quite a few people who will really appreciate this.
 
kev said:
I see this as an ultra useless product, I havent changed a battery in years.
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Do you play guitar? I change my battery every few months because it dies/starts gating, even with unplugging the chord. Looks like useful device to me.
 
Same here, every 2-3-4 months depending on how frequently I am playing the guitar. Honestly I never understood some people harping on the battery thing. It's never been a problem for me, you open the cavity up once every few months and pop a battery in... what is the big deal? Why do people act like it's so terrible :lol:
 
006 said:
Same here, every 2-3-4 months depending on how frequently I am playing the guitar. Honestly I never understood some people harping on the battery thing. It's never been a problem for me, you open the cavity up once every few months and pop a battery in... what is the big deal? Why do people act like it's so terrible :lol:
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Well, its not terrible for 90% of users. But say you have a strat without a back cavity cover....battery changes are quite inconvenient in that case. Also, on some guitars, like front mounted Rhoads, cramming a battery in there can be a pain in the ass. Also if you have 10-12 instruments with EMGs, it might be more convenient to use this than constantly buying batteries.

This is a niche product for sure, and changing a battery isn't terrible, I don't think I'll be buying this, but its still cool that EMG is offering this IMO.
 
The only time I changed batteries in my guitars was before recording a record, just to be safe. Not even once a battery died.

As much as I like being environmentally friendly and not using batteries, I have to say that with a price of 90$ it's a really expensive gadget.

I think the only use of it is if you have set up one guitar for a long period of time and you don't want to unplug it when you are finished playing, for whatever reason.
 
Pretty useless...if you've got like 12 guitars with EMGs like someone stated before, your batteries should last...uhm...12x longer than somebody with 1 guitar. And yeah even on tour its like pop in a fresh battery before you leave and don't worry about it until you get home hahaha. I don't think an hour and half a night is going to kill a battery in a month.

Maybe if you were in Metallica it would be cool
 
Rogueleader said:
Well, its not terrible for 90% of users. But say you have a strat without a back cavity cover....battery changes are quite inconvenient in that case.
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I actually have a Strat and an Explorer (with front pickguard) with EMGs :lol:
 
Jeez, picky crowd.

Funnily enough I'm not terribly interested in it either, as I have no problem with batteries, but I could have sworn there were a couple of threads over the past few years made by guys who were really pysched on the idea of powering guitars with active pickups externally. :lol: Sure it was only like 2-3 people, but this news should make them happy!
 
There is one point - battery constantly reducing its voltage during life, I`m replacing battery when sound becomes more compressed, so it is far from battery cutoff voltage (around 4 V). Just replaced battery when voltage under load become 6.56 V (measured using stereo-jack between sleeve and ring), fresh battery (alkaline) gives around 8 V (actually 8.14 V, two days after there is 8.08 V...) under load, output with fresh battery is around 1.5 db higher and more defined.
 
AllanD said:
Do you play guitar? I change my battery every few months because it dies/starts gating, even with unplugging the chord. Looks like useful device to me.
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I cycle between around 1-12 guitars usually- they'll probably all die at once :grin:

deLuther said:
There is one point - battery constantly reducing its voltage during life, I`m replacing battery when sound becomes more compressed, so it is far from battery cutoff voltage (around 4 V). Just replaced battery when voltage under load become 6.56 V (measured using stereo-jack between sleeve and ring), fresh battery (alkaline) gives around 8 V (actually 8.14 V, two days after there is 8.08 V...) under load, output with fresh battery is around 1.5 db higher and more defined.
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^^ I didnt know that. Could be pretty useful info :)
 
First I thought: Great, now I can remove all batterys from my active instruments (2 guitars, 1 bass) - but you have to do modifications (of course) at the instruments and insert an shorting clip in each so that it can be used with this device.

So, nothing for me :zzz:
 
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