Does anybody out here have any experience yet with these new offerings from EMG?
http://www.emgpickups.com/guitar/single-coil/strat/ra-2.html
http://www.emgpickups.com/guitar/single-coil/strat/ra-5.html
And the big question is, do they sound more like traditional Strat pickups than the SAs or the Ss or the SXs, etc.
Also... The blurb for the RA-2 set, the pickups using AlNiCo 2 magnets, seems to make a claim that Hendrix, Clapton and Beck tended to use Strats equipped with AlNiCo 2 Strat pickups while the blurb on the RA-5 page seems to claim that Vaughan, Blackmore and Malmsteen used AlNiCo 5 pickups.
I've never heard this before.
I didn't even know that anybody used AlNiCo 2 on Strat pickups at all until various companies started offering it recently.
I knew about them being used on PAFs but not on SC pickups.
Any SC AlNiCo 2 lore appreciated.
http://www.emgpickups.com/guitar/single-coil/strat/ra-2.html
http://www.emgpickups.com/guitar/single-coil/strat/ra-5.html
And the big question is, do they sound more like traditional Strat pickups than the SAs or the Ss or the SXs, etc.
Also... The blurb for the RA-2 set, the pickups using AlNiCo 2 magnets, seems to make a claim that Hendrix, Clapton and Beck tended to use Strats equipped with AlNiCo 2 Strat pickups while the blurb on the RA-5 page seems to claim that Vaughan, Blackmore and Malmsteen used AlNiCo 5 pickups.
I've never heard this before.
I didn't even know that anybody used AlNiCo 2 on Strat pickups at all until various companies started offering it recently.
I knew about them being used on PAFs but not on SC pickups.
Any SC AlNiCo 2 lore appreciated.