EMG 81 Active Guitar Humbucker Bridge/Neck Pickup, Black

EMG’s have been THE pickup for metal and high gain sounds for years. Their solder-less wiring system makes everything super easy to install. Great sounding pickups. As a side note, EMG’s customer service is top notch. Great company to deal with!

Emg 81 is just a gold standard pickup.

Item was New In Box.... Good price, but no longer trust "next day or same day delivery... Almost never happens... took me three days to get... But product is 100%...

Great pickup!

Hey what can I say that hasn't already been said about an EMG 81? It is the sound of metal. It is the bridge pickup for both of the electric guitar players in a little band called Metallica. It is also one of the pickups that a little known guitar player who plays for Ozzy Osbourne uses. You also don't have to know how to solder to install this into a guitar.

EMG is legendary for a reason but they are not for everybody. These things absolutely slay on downtuned metal playing, im using them for a B standard doom metal guitar build. They fit my cheap Silvertone Paul Stanley Apocalypse perfect and the red was a perfect match for it as well. Easy completely solderless installation that took me 20 mins. Plan on ordering the 60 neck pickup, their solderless 3 way switch, and their pa2 boost switch soon.

So I've been using EMG for about twenty years. It's supposed to be a solderless system, but I prefer a v shaped guitar for whatever reason. The kit that EMG sends you seems to be geared toward guitars that have the jack closer to the electronics cavity. On a v shaped guitar, the jack is on the complete opposite side, so I have to chain link bits of wire together. If I'm missing something here please let me know. The wire that they include in the kit isn't even close to what I would need. I've googled the hell out of it for the past ten years, and nobody has said anything about it. Is this not bothering you guys or what? I have to solder bits of wire together on a, "solderless" system. I can only assume I'm doing something incorrect here, but I don't feel that this is right if EMG claims that their pickups are, "solderless", because that has never been the case for me. Five stars for sounding very good and because I don't like to leave negative reviews. These people work hard and have provided an exceptional product for decades, and I respect that very much.

It’s a classic emg 81. Metallica, Zakk Wylde and other bands have been using since the 90s. Just buy it and put it in the bridge of your guitar already. Emg comes with Solderless installation. Makes it easy but just go to YouTube and take your time if you’ve never done it before. I have a Wylde Audio Bullseye Les Paul “Odin” that has 81 85 Emgs. Have a epiphone with 57/66 Emgs. I got this red 81 emg for the bridge on my cheap Dean V and a 85 in the neck just for a cheap guitar to jam on. And have a LTD Explorer with. A 81 60 combo Emgs and a LTD Viper 401 SG type model with EMG HET SET!Anyways point is. Any passive or active Emgs you can never go wrong. Just buy the thing and see yourself