How do you install an emg pickup on a guitar but the guitar has one pickup only?

Answer 1

through a guitar with passive pickups , take out the old pots (things under the knobs in the guitar) , take out the old input jack and replace them all with the new active pickup ones. After words put in all the new stuff, connect the pickups and you're done.

I recommend the X series ones as they are a lot easier to do, plus once their in properly you can switch them any time you want. If its hard just pay the 50-100$ for a guitar tech to do it. Craigslist has some cheap ones.

Answer 2

if you have one humbucker pickup slot on your guitar you use one EMG 81 pickup or another active pickup of your choice. if your guitar only has single coil pickups, buy EMG single coil pickups. if you have already bought humbuckers and have a single coil pick up guitar, you have a problem. you must:

a) buy a new guitar

b) sell your humbucker EMG set and buy the single coil

c) use a router to make space in your guitar for the pickup

(which is a bad idea unless your a very experienced woodworker or know one well)

- shred til your dead

Answer 3

yes its very possible.!!

you must first determine what pickup you have currently in your guitar and buy one that is the same size and configuration and change the existing pickup with your new one.now you've put a guitar pickup(new)into your guitar with one pickup,but this is an exchange!!

but if you want to add a second pickup to a guitar that has only one to begin with,you would have to do extensive surgery to make it work.first you would have to:

1.)router out a hole for the new pickup and drill holes for new wiring to include the pickup

in your original configuration.

2.)you'll have to re wire your guitar and also drill holes for separate volume and tone and possibly selector switches to switch from one pickup to the other.

so,in reality its usually easier to sell or just keep your guitar with the single pickup and possibly buy a second guitar the way you want it configured from the classified ads,an online used marketplace,pawnshop from a friend or even new but the work required for adding a pickup is very intensive and not for an amateur at all.