EMG 57/66 Set Brushed Chrome

I bought these because I like my EMG 81 & 85 set, and wanted to experience other models from EMG. I was impressed within the first few seconds! The 57 is richer and fuller than the EMG 81, while retaining the squealing harmonics that I desire. If you like active pups, you'll love these. If you don't, there's probably somethin' askew with your wiring. 🤣

I had a Schecter Hellraiser Hybrid FR with these, they were great for metal, but the FR added a metallic slant to the tone. Got a string through standard HH, and these are amazingly organic and close to passive tone, but with more presence. Similar to using a Duncan Distortion and JB. Great with pedals, may have to back off volume with some, or use a compressor. I play everything, wide range, and these pups handle it perfectly from jazz to metal.

These are as good as actives can get. I like active pickups. These are very good. High output of course and they do the high gain stuff like a champ of course. They also have a beautiful clean crisp quality to the tone. I'm not an active hater like some and if you hate actives you won't like these either. If you are looking for that high gain crunch with more versatility this is your pick up. They do have more of a PAF quality to them. Deep fat bass and sparkly top end with out being shrill. I like them better than the 81 60 for sure. I have no complaints.

Replaced SDs in old Cort 24 fret with a small control cavity. Wired for two sep vols no tone cleans up nice. 57/66 is a wide range beast run into DR504 EL34 clone amp or SS digibox. Had to back off the amp gain to match active p'up pre-amp gain. The incl. EMG solderless kit works great lots of options for tone / vol. Lookin to run at 24V soon to really crank these monsters. GC 20% off not bad.

Put them on my PRS SE custom 24. The stock pickups were good but not spectacular, specially the bridge PU. Bought a set of Duncans JB/Jazz and they sounded ok but so much noise freakin noise!!! Put on the EMG and wow what a difference! And no soldering, sound proofing, grounding required!!! They sound like the 81/85's but with a different flavor. I play in a professional cover band that does everything from Classic Rock to Disco & even Mexican Cumbias!!!! I can get a lot of different sounds out of these PUs

I replaced the 81/85 set in my Epi Custom LP EX with these and they are much more to my tastes. I think hotter than the 81/85 due to the hybrid pole pieces. I recommend not putting them too close to the strings. I play heavy fusion mix from toned cleans to massive gain and these deliver the goods better than anything I have used. Not sure what the difference is between the Hetfield set but you cannot miss on these babies.