Thanks so much Max! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🔥

@SilverMusicAndGaming

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh Gus G Just casually walking in and leaving a comment on his own pickups

@GuitarMAXMusic

3 жыл бұрын

No problem. Thanks for making these awesome pickups!

@SilverMusicAndGaming

3 жыл бұрын

@@GuitarMAXMusic i respect you max. Just wanted you to know this. *salute*

@amitabhkunchey9342

3 жыл бұрын

Holy crap it's Gus G I'm just the hugest fan of yours...and ofc G Max I love your videos n try never to miss even a single one... I'm 16 and from India, hope to be able to play like Gus and Max one day... Such awesomely cool people...

"I think I just accidentally wrote some Manowar lyrics" 😂😂😂

The separate pre-amp design is similar with what S.Duncan, Fishman & even Kiesel Guitars use in their active systems. Like already mentioned, you can install either a mini-switch or maybe a push-pull pot on the tone or volume knob, to go from active to passive, like the Fishman Fluence "voices".

Gus took this idea from Seymour Duncan, as his Seymour Duncan pickups were identical with passive pickups with a outboard preamp. I did some beta testing when Frank Falbo worked at Seymour on the preamp to do active and passive. Frank is at Fishman now with the Fluenece line.

+5points for wearing a shirt with your picture on it. + 5 points for Manowar reference. Nice tones and a wicked blacked out look Great review Danzig 🤦🏽 Max

those pickup through that marshall are worth dying for! heavy fucking metal!!!

I have the Immortal set...they are fantastic!! Being that they were ordered during the preorder, they came to me in a hand signed box from Gus.

@GuitarMAXMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!

It would be nice to hear the fire blackouts vs the fire pickups just to see how Gus evolved his sound through the years

The only thing that would make those pickups more metal is if they were forged from the steel of a genuine battleaxe.

not only is Gus one the best metal guitarist out there hes like a super cool dood

Those pickups are tight. They sing. They cut through. Definitely on the mid range side which make them chug nicely. 🤘🏻 they sound good.

The upload schedule offlate has been incredible and I couldn't be happier

It's always cool to check out new gear with you. Thanks for making things interesting and fun!

O.M.G. Max I think you found your voice brother! You sound awesome with this guitar and pickups and you put them together bro...

That's a cool feature with it still being playable when the battery is dead. I'm definitely guilty of leaving my favorite guitars plugged in to the point where I don't want to buy active pickups again.

Dude that thing sounds badass! Amazing mod to an alright guitar! Lol

Double THUMBS UP for the "Gus G" / "Kenny G" reference...a Black Metal/Saxophone concept album would indeed ROCK!

Awesome pickups and video as always. Please review the passive version as well

Man I feel like I'm watching a 80s video with all the color saturation. Love it.

Man this shirt is great! Gus is a really great musician! The company name is cool! The tone is very nice!

Whoa, nice new intro dude!

@GuitarMAXMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

They do sound fantastic. And in my 30 years of playing, I've never liked active pickups so that means something.

@prs149

2 жыл бұрын

Me either And I've been playing for 45 years

Thankfully I work in electronics so the soldering part for me is a no brainer.

Is wiring pickups like some magical stuff or something? I've been trying to find good info and a video on someone soldering and wiring pickups and it's like a unicorn. Great video btw

@juvedoo99

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently companies are very hush on how they wire their pickups. This would be a good question to ask Phil McKnight though. I think he would show people how it’s done.

@Madchris8828

3 жыл бұрын

@@juvedoo99 seriously though, you can't even find a video of someone showing themselves attaching the wires and soldering them on camera to show people how do to it. Do they issue a legal warning to that or something?? Like I want to learn how to repair and build guitars but the barrier for entry seems crazy bad

@greekfreak1980

3 жыл бұрын

Go to Gus G´s off. youtube channel, he has an installation tutorial for his pickups.

@xdreampcs8554

3 жыл бұрын

Great post and I agree. This is something I have been wanting to do as well.

@Madchris8828

3 жыл бұрын

@@greekfreak1980 very cool. Thanks

Million dollars idea of active / passive pick up in one. They sound awesome next time demo them both ways.

@markusT752

Жыл бұрын

EMG Alx - Alexi Laiho pu is passive with gain boost and eq. So one can change not only output, but tone as well. Best pu I ever used, in 40 years of playing gtr.

That Kenny and Gus joke got me big time! Hahahahaha

@GuitarMAXMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching to the end! \m/

@bpabustan

3 жыл бұрын

@@GuitarMAXMusic loved your videos always Max 😀

I agree with your assessment of Guss G. Love Firewind! 🤘🎸😎

Hey max your awesome great show dude. And your one of the greatest players out there besides having a killer show. Keep shredding brother.

@GuitarMAXMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks dude!

These do sound pretty nice. It’s nice to hear stuff sound awesome from the smaller companies (not SD, Dimarzio, or EMG) I gotta find a pair somewhere 👍🏼

@vladimirpoutine7522

3 жыл бұрын

Go with Dragonfire, Calig, Entwistle etc. as an alternative to the big guys. I'm the same way and tend to prefer Calig pickups.

Great information. Nice video. I enjoy Gus’s music. The pups sound great, powerful, and have mucho articulation.

They pick up a lot more "slide on the windings" sound when clean than most humbuckers.

They sound great.. and in that sawtooth.. very articulate and powerful..

5:18 That riff made me think of DOS Doom, just without the tritone! Sweet demo!

these paired with the blackstar is pretty sick

to all the many players out there I can not any pickups , I will say Dima - X2N & semor -- Super Distortion which are both "passive" and I will say they also have are very clean sound if people role off the volume,& will agree with him 100 % percent if you do not know how to solder do not to try to do it alone, they are very expensive. Peace out.

Saw Gus G open or Ritchie Kotzen. It was awesome

Awesome video as always Max, Great sounding pickups. Been a long time subscriber and have learned so much from your GSE course set. Might get me a set of those to put into my Schechter Blackjack Diamond series Guitar

Just wondering - wouldn't it be bad that the pickups continue to work even if the battery died? People (me) would use them passive and wonder if its just my playing or the battery dying that made the tone change.

Good sounding p-ups . The p-ups that come w the Jim Root Squier sound similar. Rich powerful bass w a bit of the nasal cocked wah mids and smooth highs. Good note definition w high distortion.

Cool pickups

hey Maxx, This is not a new idea. Old 80s shred guitars like the Charvels came with this kinda concept as well. Even, EMG does this with the retroactive set. Seymour Duncan also did this for Gus G with his signature pups with them. Duncan even sells the Blackout modular Preamp where you can combine your existing passive pups and add the blackouts preamp for some of that blackouts added output and sound.

Hi max, Big fan from Colombia, I have bien wacthing Your channel for over 7 years, just sending some love ..... PD: I want to try this pickups , someone day I Will get them

Great review sir!

I think I hear a touch of clear upper mid crunch, as well as the full lower mids - compared to your typical humbucker. Maybe they just cut the treble a bit. I wonder how much of the tone shaping is pickup design, and how much is preamp. Reminds me of an experimental guitar I built once that had a built-in EQ pedal. In the end, I decided its easier to just put the EQ at the front of the pedal chain.

Would be cool if you could activate the active portion with a switch and use as a boost

rofl @ the kenny g bit :)

I they sound killer man.built to shredd kick ass

glad I watched until the end lolllllll

sounds SUPER Compressed, I guess there is a place for those pickups....... but to me they seems not very flexible sounding

Those pickups sound awesome. I wonder if Gus is still using the Duncan signatures or of it's just the Blackfires.

I think that’s the finest shred guitar ever!

Mah dangy....mah ding dang dangy twitched

MAX, Why dont you ever do a FAQ series? Just wondering, I really like your content but I just wonder why you dont do more contact with your audience? Thanks man if you read this and answer, maybe I would pay if you did something like that. Keep up the good stuff, your right up ther with OLA and some others.

@GuitarMAXMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! And that's a good idea!

so you should be able to wire it in such a way that a toggle switch would switch between Active and Passive. bypass the preamp.

@GuitarMAXMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Hey good idea!

They do the same on seymour duncan blackout AHB-10

That white guit is sick

I think we finally know who unboxing knight is 0:56 😂😂

Sexy beast of a guitar. Fantastic work on the pickup install.

I don't understand active vs passive pickups. I'm wondering if you could do a video explaining their best uses.

Dope af

Gus G and Kenny G. Ha Ha Ha! That's hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i hope he makes the blackfire god of war set!!!

that may be the best neck pickup ive ever heard

Hi Max, do you think those pickups would work well for death metal tuned to C standard?

@GuitarMAXMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. These have great note definition and should work really well for lower tunings like that.

That neck pickup sounds great for a 24 frets guitar

I would have liked to see where you put the battery

@GuitarMAXMusic

3 жыл бұрын

I just put it in the existing control cavity.

Which pickup configuration is best for metal H-s-H or HH ? music like metallica within temptation and hard rock music?

Definitely a a ripper !

I hate batteries bro. Can you review the other set?

Sick man

Thanks great vids man. Jackson JS32 gloss black dinky with a better foie rose and better pickups. I'm a new guitar player and I don't know much about a Floyd Rose I was wondering if you could tell me the best one to buy instead of the Jackson Floyd Rose. And a pair of Seymour Duncan humbuckers that you might recommend. And also a new set of really good head tuners instead of the ones that are on my guitar. your opinion on these things would be greatly appreciated.

I to long for a day when metal, any kind, can groove with a tenor saxophone creating the most relaxing mosh experience full of pleasant despair....😏

Blessed by the Gods of Metal? How can that be? Mustaine plays Duncans.

Only person I have seen use Dava Jazz picks like I do.

Maxx you should check out Voodoo custom pickups!!!

Conversely, could you use the outboard preamp with other pickups? I don't see why not.

The slightly cheesy presentation not with standing, those pickup sound good.

I live in Brazil

@mannyfragoza9652

3 жыл бұрын

put your mask on

@silassilvaferreira

3 жыл бұрын

@@mannyfragoza9652 Thank you my brother

Pretty sure those are Seymour Duncan made. Same design as his last SD signature pickups.

I like your way of talking

are these f spaced?

I almost wish I play metal!

@gyslainbeauchamp9241

3 жыл бұрын

Join the club today🤟

You forgot Mystic Prophecy 😉

Hey Max, great vid.. Question: Wouldn't I have to rout out a battery box hole in my axe, to use these as active??..

@GuitarMAXMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Most guitars have enough empty space in the control cavity to hold the battery and the little preamp circuit board. That's what I did here, I just put everything in the existing control cavity.

@Dzo826

3 жыл бұрын

@@GuitarMAXMusic Thanx Max!!!.. I certainly hope so, because I am seriously considering getting some of these... Peace!!..

Awesome........👍

alot like emg 81 / 60 to me :)

The passive pickup / active preamp setup is nothing new .. I've used them since the 80s when I got my Charvel Model 6's. I do swap out the stock J50 in the bridge for a Gibson Dirty Fingers

Gus G! 😃

What you really need to do is install a mini toggle switch that turns the preamp on and off and place it near the volume knobs. www.guitarfetish.com/DPDT-ON-OFF-ON-Mini-Toggle-Switch_p_1207.html Now you can play the guitar with and without the preamp and if you can leave the cord plugged in as long as turn off the preamp.

@GuitarMAXMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!

Excelente 👌 👌 👌

Now make one with Semour Duncan Blackouts EMTY pickups so you can sound like slipknot on a acoustic😂

Greek pick ups will give you malaka tone vre! \m/

Does the output drop a lot when you disconnect the preamp?

@GuitarMAXMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but it's really only noticeable on a clean or lower gain tone.

@andrewk2352

3 жыл бұрын

@@GuitarMAXMusic is the passive setting still louder than a jb or a classic passive humbucker?

Hard to tell what they sound like actually, your metal tone sounds to tingy for me like a metal zone with the treble too high , but they are nice tho

Mávri Fotiá!

You should custom the guitar look now and make it more personal... Like Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch and, Brian May did...

I think you would look kick ass if you had a mullet

Hahaha. Black metal saxophone😂😂😂 Max just created Black Metal jazz Fusion

Black Metal Sax!!!!!!!!!!😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

I live in cleveland ohio!