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Passive pickups in EMG 808 route?
« on: November 03, 2014, 09:56:12 PM »
Would there be anyway to fit a set of Painkillers into the route for a EMG 808? I'm thinking about buying an Agile Septor 830, but it comes with EMG 808's which I'm not a huge fan of. Would it be possible to find an empty housing for an Extended range bass pickup and fit the painkiller underneath?

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Re: Passive pickups in EMG 808 route?
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2014, 11:31:24 PM »
Would there be anyway to fit a set of Painkillers into the route for a EMG 808? I'm thinking about buying an Agile Septor 830, but it comes with EMG 808's which I'm not a huge fan of. Would it be possible to find an empty housing for an Extended range bass pickup and fit the painkiller underneath?

a lot of people were doing this with 7s so I guess 8s will be out there too,. I think the 7 ones were called 35hz housings.

There are also these

http://www.fretsonthenet.com/Pickups_Info_Parts/ir%20passive%202%20conv%20rings.htm

It might be worth emailing BKP though as they do EMG sized 7 string pickups. I Imagine 8s will be in the works and could even be close to completion.
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Re: Passive pickups in EMG 808 route?
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2014, 12:41:06 AM »
Would there be anyway to fit a set of Painkillers into the route for a EMG 808? I'm thinking about buying an Agile Septor 830, but it comes with EMG 808's which I'm not a huge fan of. Would it be possible to find an empty housing for an Extended range bass pickup and fit the painkiller underneath?

a lot of people were doing this with 7s so I guess 8s will be out there too,. I think the 7 ones were called 35hz housings.

There are also these

http://www.fretsonthenet.com/Pickups_Info_Parts/ir%20passive%202%20conv%20rings.htm

It might be worth emailing BKP though as they do EMG sized 7 string pickups. I Imagine 8s will be in the works and could even be close to completion.
Yep, asking is in order. I do believe to recall them saying that they were working on it a couple of months back, so Iīd imagine a lot of progress to be made. How far out it still is...canīt tell, but I would imagine not much.
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