E66 Pickup

Kenneth Kotsay · From: Davie/Ft Lauderdale, Florida

Does the E66 pickup replicate the original 1960's Emmons E9th pickup when you replace the factory installed pickup in a 1981 Emmons P/P? (tone, sound quality, drive etc).

KEN

Chris Lucker · From: Los Angeles, California USA

The short answer is no, because there is no such thing as a 1960s Emmons pickup. I have a lot of 1960s Emmons guitars and a lot of different sounding pickups. But then, not all these pickups were made by Emmons -- I do not know for sure, but Mosrite or Stratosphere could have made them.

If we just consider a plain 1960s Emmons single coil, with what everyone would recognize as the "usual" magnet length and arrangement and bobbin shape and no taps in the winds, I have 1960s pickups that measure 12.4K and have had others that read 22.3K. These pickups did not sound alike.

On 1966 Emmons guitars I have had middle 14Ks and I think the highest was around 17K. I may have more lighter pickups than would normally be found, but that could be because I may not buy guitars unless they lean toward the bright, clear, good string separation and lots of overtones end of the spectrum. I had a Bolt-0n from 1967 -- 1090D -- that had tapped single coils that read 13+K and 22K or something like that. I kept the pickups on the 13+K selection.

I do not think an E66 replicates any of these lighter single coils. I think an E66 does something else, and it does it well.
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Jon Light (deceased) · From: Saugerties, NY

I seem to recall reading here that the E66 was designed to go in an MCI (or was it an EMCI?) to replicate the sound of a particular '66 Emmons. Am I making this up or am I close to the real story?

Jay Jessup · From: Charlottesville, VA, USA

Jon,
I have heard the same story and will add that Buddy's tone on the Expedition E9 and Christmas album are some of my favorite of all his recorded tones and I believe they were both recorded with EMCI guitars with E-66 pickups.
I have several E-66 pups and they all check out at 17.5 ohms + or - they are humbuckers by the way, I assume everyone knows that.
I also have a very original 66 bolt on Emmons and both those pickups check out at 13.5K.

Jack Stanton · From: Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey

Pretty sure The Expo E9 was an MCI, which had the original Barcus Berry pickups, not the EMCI. I also could be completely wrong, but I'd bet good cash money that at least a couple of the tunes on EXPO are recorded on an Emmons guitar, probably a push pull since that was right around the time Buddy split with the Emmons Guitar Co. and had gone back to a black push pull (see the inside picture of the first Swinging album with the viceroy of the Emmons logo blacked out) I remember listing to the album and being able to tell which was which . I'd bet Nashville Alive, Cold War, and I Love You Because are all on an Emmons. Flint Hill is definitely the MCI. Maybe since Buddy had been around here lately he'll straighten me out.

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