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EMG H3 Black

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Pickups for Electric Guitar

  • Passive humbucker
  • With over wound coils and ceramic magnets
  • Hotter than a traditional PAF
  • Very balanced sound with a transparent, ​​slightly lowered mid range and clear treble with great overtones
  • For neck and bridge position
  • Pole distance: 9.85 mm
  • Colour: black
  • Incl. EMG solderless installation system: 500k volume potentiometer, 500k tone potentiometer, output jack, two pickup in/ out bus, fixing screws & springs, pickup cables, 2x connection cables, output cable and grounding cable
Available since October 2010
Item number 254754
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Active No
Output High
Cap Yes
Colour Black
Position Bridge, Neck
$69
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Doesn't fall victim to EMG syndrome!
Anonymous 24.01.2015
This pickup is great and it doesn't fall victim to the EMG syndrome where most EMG pickups sound the same as you can tell this does not have your conventional Alnico V magnets but Ceramic magnets and you can really tell, it is a lot more punchy and kicks the metaphorical balls of the top end, it really does sing, it even has a Dimebag quality to it so if you have a Floyd Rose equipped guitar and want to replace the bridge pickup to get massive squeals then buy this pickup and drop it in you wont be disappointed!
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Just Wicket
Brocco 30.09.2023
I modified an ST to an HSH configuration with these little buggers on neck and bridge position respectively (the middle one is still an EMG single coil for mixing)
The sound is really full and round yet still gives some "straty" quality to the overall tone. To me, it sounds still sharper than a genuine 335 Humbucker, foremost on the neck position, which was exactly what I wanted.
Using the included roll-back (which is sadly not optional, otherwise the entire configuration looses its solder-free quality) knob can still make it sound more "jazzy" (more like the one on the 335)
Only down side - with the solder free option, as mentioned before, only genuine EMG parts can be used. But since they are made to fit together perfectly anyway, that's not really a draw-back to me.
All in all I'm totally impressed.
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highly recommended neck pickup
t-j-b 04.11.2015
I use the passive EMG H3 in the neck position of a Flying V with an additionally push/pull pot to coil split the pu.
You can play the typical EMG metal tones and even jazzy clean or other non metal music with this pu.
A coil splitted H3 will also sound very nice but it needs some soldering. It does not turn your V into a single coil Strat but it's sufficient to get a nice clear sc chime. The coil splitting is not working by design, you have to get a switch or push/pull pot and solder by yourself which is then not a "quick connect" solution.

Great pickup, highly recommended!

I only wish EMG would sell more quick connect stuff for passive humbuckers like they do for their active series e.g. switches, pots.
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klasse sound als hals-pickup, in kombi mit h4 (bridge) verbaut
Lobster 26.02.2014
fuer meine mit aktiven pickups bestueckte proberaum-explorer wollte ich passiven ersatz besorgen. da der sound trotz grosser lautstaerke differenziert bleiben sollte und die optik auch nicht ganz unwichtig ist, habe ich einen h3 fuer die halsposition und cleansounds und den h4 fuer die bridgeposition bestellt. ich habe nicht die a-versionen h3a oder h4a mit alnico-magneten gewaehlt, da laut meiner recherche die keramik-versionen klanglich klarer und stabiler und "sauberer" bleiben sollen.

die emg-produkte sind immer tadellos verpackt, mit anleitungen versehen und in diesem fall mit notwendigen kabeln, steckern und potis ausgestattet. grossartig!

der einbau war dann so einfach wie noch nie! ich habe schon einiges an bastelstunden an gitarren hinter mir und der umbau war dank der steckverbindungen innerhalb einer stunde tadellos und ordentlich erledigt. die mitgelieferten diagramme fuer die verschiedenen moeglichen optionen sind erstklassig (kann man auch auf der emg-seite im vorfeld herunterladen).

der sound ist so wie ich es mir vorgestellt habe. im vergleich zu meinen passiven gibson gitarren mit verschiedenen humbucker-kombinationen ist das output um einiges hoeher, der klang ist etwas bissiger und druckvoller, die mitten treten zurueck. trotzdem lassen sich alle sounds (funk, blues, stoner, metal) wie gewuenscht erzeugen.
der h3 kann sogar nach single-coil klingen und der h4 muss sich nicht hinter dem aktiven 81er verstecken, obwohl man das immer wieder hoert und liest.
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