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Active Noiseless Single Coil Pickup

Position: All
Output: Medium
The most popular EMG Strat pickup
Vintage single coil sound with extra mids and a higher output, giving the pickup bell-like overtones and more sustain
Connections: Solderless
Magnet: Alnico 5
Cover colour: Black
Made in the USA

Includes an EMGs solderless installation system:

1 x 25k Volume potentiometer (thread length: 9.5 mm)
1 x 25k Tone potentiometer (thread length: 9.5 mm)
1 x Battery bus
1 x Stereo output jack
1 x Two pickup in/out bus
1 x Pair of mounting screws and springs
1 x Pickup cable
2 x Connection cable
1 x Output cable
1 x Battery cable

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3-Year Thomann Warranty

Available since August 2002

Item number 156943

Sales Unit 1 piece(s)

Aktive Circuit Yes

Wiring 3-Conductor

Pickup Output Medium

Cap Yes

Colour Black

Position Bridge, Middle, Neck

Stacked - hum free Yes

Telecaster No

Stratocaster Yes

Other No

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The best PU of EMG for Blues Sounds!

TheRelact 13.02.2014

The "EMG-SA" is an active single-coil with an alnico 5 magnet. It stands for "the" classic vintage Strat single-coil sound that EMG offers. Internal shielding and a low impedance preamp provide most extensive reduction of noise even at higher output levels. The "SA" provides the warmth of the lower mids, sounds very creamy and gives the necessary expressiveness for multi-faceted and bluesy tone building. He brings in total more highs and upper mids than the "SLV", designed individually for Steve Lukather of Toto and basically an over-wound "SA". The "EMG-SA" is commonly used for classic and clean sounds and also very popular for crunchy and light distorted sounds. However, the SA can also rock really well. He is one of the most popular pickups of EMG. At the EMG DG-20 (David Gilmour) three "EMG-SA" are installed to fit the taste of one of the most famous Strat players ever.

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Very bright single coil sound-Feels underwhelming- A PAIN to install

Jackson99 24.03.2021

I took this as a set with the EMG 81 with the non-soldering switch etc.. 1. PAIN to install, schematics are rubbish if you want to do a simple circuit like V-V-Tone with 2 pickups....I had to figure everything by myself and it took hours instead of minutes with a solder. 2. Thin, Spanky strat sound perfect for cleans, but underwhelming for neck leads when combined with the 81. Needs to get close to the strings to balance. Still Spanky. Considering the SA is considered the more meaty EMG single coil...It will take some trial and error to get the tones going. 3. During installation the pickup wires have the clip ends which are thicker than the cable itself. It the guitar has small drilled holes for wiring, you are in big trouble as you might end up needing re-drilling.

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Great pickup

DT1980 12.04.2020

Nice sounding pickup, very dynamic for an active. The solderless connections are very easy to install the pickup. Like all EMG products, the build quality is outstanding.

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Great single coil pickup

SpyrosMargo 03.10.2019

Just an amazing sound overall!

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