This One Fact About EMG Pickups Just Blew Our Minds A Little Bit

It was RIGHT there in front of us... all along   29-Jun-15

You know when something is sat right there, staring you in the face for years, and you don't even notice.

Well that just happened to us with EMG pickups.

As the nerds among us will know, there are two main types of guitar pickup magnet - ceramic and Alnico.

You may also have noticed that the logo on EMG pickups only ever comes in two colours - gold, and silver.

This is because:

Silver EMG logo = Ceramic magnet.

Gold EMG logo = Alnico magnet.

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