Any guitar can handle any pickup.... just have to modify it abit

But if you're adding in the Zakk set in your LP, it's going to ROAR.
Heck, throw in EMGs in a baseball bat and it'll still sound brutal.....

If you really love and cheerish your guitar and want to give it a "treat", yeah..... the EMG will work. I installed them into my low end LP-100 and it sounded quite brutal for a metal tone when paired with a powerful amp.....

But you'll have to send it to a luthier to get it installed, because they'll need to install a battery as the EMG-ZW are actives.

Yup...... If you flip your Les Paul around, you'll see that there is a compartment there...... where the jack is housed also.....

Agree on what Rossie says (BTW...... in case you didn't get the sarcasm, it's in slot B)..... even if you buy a new guitar, you can always swap the pickups in to that as well.

I still have a pair of Passive EMG-HZs from my Zakk Wylde LP that I might swap into another guitar on a later date......

Well, that depends also.
If I get a Gibson Classic, I wouldn't mind swapping in SD Alnico II ala Slash.......
If it's a Gibby Explorer, I would drop in EMG 81/85 in a heart beat.

Bottomline, no matter how cheap or expensive a guitar is, it's perfectly OK to modify them with pickups.

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

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

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.

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!!!!!!

Stop Worrying about an amp now..... just worry about the pickups!

And I tried the Laney....... Didn't like it.....

Oh, The Spider III, haven't tried it..... but tried the Spider II........ sounds like microchips.

Well, to me, it doesn't matter what brand the guitar is or how expensive..... a good pick-up can really change the way a guitar can sound...... believe me, I know.

I installed a pair in my crappy LP-100 and it did wonders for the sound.