EMG S4 BK

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Noiseless Single Coil Pickup for Electric Guitar

Rail design with adjacent coils and ceramic magnets
Not overwound for a more powerful bass and midrange with the crisp highs of a conventional single-coil pickup
Position: All
Output: High
Connections: Solderless
Magnet Material: Ceramic
Colour: Black
Made in USA

With EMG's solderless installation system:

250 kOhm volume and tone grooved potentiometers (9.5 mm thread length)
Mono output socket
Bridge grounding connector
Bridge grounding cable
Adjusting screws and springs
Pickup In/Out battery bus
Pickup cable
Connecting cable
Output cable

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Available since October 2013
Item number 325888
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Aktive Circuit No
Wiring Prewired
Pickup Output Medium
Cap Yes
Colour Black
Position Bridge, Middle, Neck
Stacked - hum free Yes
Telecaster Yes
Stratocaster Yes
Other Yes
Passive Yes
Output High
Pickup Cover Yes

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Quality pickup - interesting tone

Richard708 07.09.2014

Firstly my pickup has the classic white EMG logo (looks like an S or SA) and doesn't say HZ which will please some as it removes a bit of the 'budget' perception of the passive range.

This is a nice pickup with quite a unique tone which I'm using in neck position - think single coil bite/shimmer with thicker smoother bass and low mids with not much upper mid. Gives that typical 'hi fi' sound EMGs are known for. It is also mega quiet! Much quieter than the conventional humbucker I have in the bridge position.

After an initial trial, I considered changing it for a lace sensor but it's staying in at the moment as it is pleasing whenever I play it. It also fits in tight spaces (mine is in a top mounted carvin where very few singles will fit) but is quite tall so unlikely to be able to mount it very low - eg I couldn't use in middle position as it would interfere with picking too much.

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direct replacement for bass pickup, too!

andreip 04.06.2021

Bought it as a replacement for the stock Roswell VTN-4 pickup in Harley Benton PB-50, not that it need it, but because I wanted to. Even if higher (5 mm) than stock pickup, it fitted without routing. Provided wiring kit replaced the stock pots.

I chose S4 because of humbucker rail construction and the advertised characteristics, favouring low & high ends.

It gave the PB-50 a smooth overall response, noiseless, with bright highs and well defined lows. It tends to distort at max volume.

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EMG S4 BK. Brilliant pickup for electro acoustic mandolin with magnetic pickup

AnthonyUK 09.02.2025

The magnetic pickups fitted to most electro acoustic mandolin are very poor. They have a lot of hum, noise and they sound awful. I fitted this EMG S4 BK to my new Ortega mandolin (with a small amount of work). No soldering is needed as it has push fit connectors on the pickup, controls and jack socket. The instructions that come with it are very clear and straight forward.
The sound from this pickup is brilliant. A nice rich bottom end, full mid range and a crisp high end with no harshness. Also there is zero hum and noise.
If you have a mandolin with a magnetic pickup, I recommend fitting an EMG S4 BK pickup. You won't regret it.

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Sehr guter, brummfreier Single-Coil

Thomas682 28.05.2014

Verwende schon länger den EMG S3 in meinen Strats, erzeugt authentischen , alten Stratsound. Dieser EMG S4 ist wärmer im Ton, klingt aber in der Zwischenposition immer noch ausreichend knackig, ist auf akustisch hellen Gitarren sehr zu empfehlen. Aber auch in Mahagony am Hals sehr zu empfehlen wenn man mal jazz-artige Sounds braucht. Sehr warmer, angenehmer Ton, sehr empfehlenswert!
Ich ziehe die HZ-Serie ganz klar den aktiven Pickups vor.

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