EMG Afterburner switch - Wow- flamethrower! PSA

[King Guitar]

Hey Guys,

I bought a few guitars last week from "locoed" (Brian) here on RT. One was a Black Gibson Flying V with EMG's (81/85) and a EMG After burner switch. I had never heard of the afterburner and asked him what it did. He said it is a 20 db boost switch similar you flip on for leads.

Holy Cow, this thing is awesome. I can slam the input hard like using a Tube Screamer but it is mounted on my guitar and with the flick of my finger I am getting all of the overtones and harmonics I could ever want on the gain side. If you play heavy music this is the best $47 you will ever spend IMO. Pinch harmonics are effortless, legato runs sound insane and it crushes for rhythm as well.

I am very very surprised and will be putting them in Black Les Paul Custom with Duncan Black outs as well as my Suhr Reb Beach. You can get the switch is either a toggle or a knob.

More info here: http://www.emginc.com/products/index/135

My guitar:

 

[thegame]

I leave mine set at 2 or 3 out of 10. Any more and it boosts bass & noise too much.

 

[jasonP]

I think using it with blackouts would be pointless in my opinion. Those pickups are already have about 2 twice the output of EMG's. I can see for using it for a single coil.

 

[King Guitar]

I think using it with blackouts would be pointless in my opinion. Those pickups are already have about 2 twice the output of EMG's. I can see for using it for a single coil.

Hard to tell till you try it.

 

[jasonP]

I think using it with blackouts would be pointless in my opinion. Those pickups are already have about 2 twice the output of EMG's. I can see for using it for a single coil.

Hard to tell till you try it.

I think it would be alright for EMG's as I've used the SPC control with them.. Now for blackouts that is a different story. Those things are flame throwers and took them out of my guitar after the first couple of gigs, just way to fuckin hot. I can see them working great for boosting and pushing an amp off the edge with the clean channel but as far as using them on the distortion channel with this I think it would just muddy up the sound.. . Just comes to the point where your not really doing anything but creating more noise.

 

[jasonP]

Looks interesting. I use passive p-ups and would have to use the switch version. After reading the PDF, it appears that the switch will change the "stock" tone of the EMG (high impedence) p-ups...even if the switch is off?

Switch the pickups from high impedence to low in both positions. Not really sure how that would effect tone?

 

[Code001]

I leave mine set at 2 or 3 out of 10. Any more and it boosts bass & noise too much.

Pretty much what I thought when I had mine. It's too noisy/compressed to be useful, unless you're running a heavy gate.