The real bottomline is, if you've got the cash to spare, why not?

If you stick in EMGs into your SX, don't expect it will not sound like a Gibson+EMGs... but it will sound better than an SX+stock pickups.

And it's not like you're planning on buying crap pickups... if you later buy a new guitar, you can always swap those EMGs in.

It's a reasonable stop-gap measure until you can source the funds to buy a better guitar, IMO...

http://www.gibson.com/en%2Dus/Divisions/Gi...lorer%2DWeek47/

now...amp or guitar more important again?

I say, if you wanna buy a guitar, get a good second hand one with the pups you wanted, otherwise just buy the pickups n install into your sx. Is there anyone here who had upgraded their pickups on their sx LP? Could use their opinions.



This post has been edited by quarantined: Nov 2 2007, 03:13 PM

Dammit Everdying!!!!!! Why must you make me Salivate so much!!!!!!! But it just proves my point of installing EMGs into an Explorer.......
It reminds me of James Hetfield's Explorer.......
Obviously Gibson works on the same brain frequency as I do

This post has been edited by blacktrix: Nov 2 2007, 04:51 PM

too bad its a guitar of the week, so only 400 copies made.
maybe thats how many metallica fans are left

eh?
LOL i mixed up A and B

sorry sorry my bad
I swear to god I saw B as the tone pots slot lol


Hmm? Most Epiphone Les Pauls use South African mahongany where else SX uses Cuban Mahogany, which is closer to Honduran Mahogany in density and tonally compared to South African.
Sure the qc on SX may not be as tight as Korean made Epiphones, but then again, aren't most things made in China ?
Just for comparison, I myself own an Epiphone Les Paul, and I have tried SX. Other than the neck dimensions on the SX (which is not to my taste), I haven't found anything better on the Epiphone compared to the SX LP which I happened to try.

This post has been edited by sean392: Nov 2 2007, 05:42 PM

Oh wait.. it IS A......
I swore that it was B that housed the tone ports too........
Weird.

dont worry too much about brands. i use epiphone LP MIK and still i do get ppl laughing and saying all sort of things. yea i did change the pickups of that to a burstbucker pro but still...if u r worried of ppl talking about the brand of guitar u're using, its never gona end unless u own a custom PRS or supreme Gibson. i'm quite happy with my guitar as its setup nice, sounds good and plays nice.

my vote.... load your SX with those brutal EMGs.

Nah, em lespauls sound better with low output pickups! active pickups suck!
lol jkjk XD

from what i know, only MIJ epiphone's use african mahogany.
MIK / MIC use whatever mahogany they can get from like philipines / indonesia / china.

sorry arr.. im a big noob here..
so will the batteries fit into the compartment or not?

now i'm tight on budget..so i cant get around 1k for a bcrich..tryin to save $$ + do odd jobs for 2 months to get my rm750

its not like im expecting it to sound like gibson+emg.. just wana get a better heavier sound out of my guitar, then im happy already.

and since i can swap the pups to another guitar in the future, i dont mind investing 750 in it.

another thing is that im really comfortable with my guitar now..

dont tell me you dont have a screwdriver and 9v battery to try yourself if can fit?

True, but I meant the species. I don't remember species names, freaking siao meh lol
**based on the grains la, the newer MIC and post 2005 i've seen the grains look alot like sapele


This post has been edited by sean392: Nov 2 2007, 08:58 PM

stil have the idea...
save for a better gita
and sell the old1


and SX is stil an SX....

sell to who la..
ppl would rather buy a new sx for 400-500+

True. Upgrade that SX guitar with the EMGs.... You have my vote too!
And besides, the SX isn't a bad sounding guitar. With the EMG, you will DEFINITELY get a much better tone then your current pickups.

my vote goes to..............change ur pups, coz i'm going to do so too. mine's epi thou.

Why not get a new amp?If you have the cash to spare,then get a 5150.

Freakfingers have been pushing a 5150 for so long, hasn't he

I'm actually interested in the 5150, but then the Spider Valve came and the Ceriatone JCM800 is sooooooooooooooooo tempting!!!!!!

People like me.
If the neck dimensions suit my taste, and i know the woods as well as the construction is fine, i'd take it.