Seymour Duncan Blackouts.

[upnorthbacon]

I recently bought a Epiphone prophecy guitar and the epi-active pickups are great!  It actually made me decide to go active with my Warmoth product so I ordered a Seymour Duncan Blackout pickup.  I'll post my thoughts when it comes, I was surprised to find it comes with both a tone and volume push pull pot, 9 volt clips, wires, and end jack for the same price as a passive pickup?  I'm assuming there must be more labor involved in the making of the passive pickups or more copper or something?  Anyway I was going to go with the EMG 81 but decided to try the blackout and see how it performs.

 

[SrDeMaFp]

EMG's include all that as well, only difference is you only get a push-pull pot with the EMG 89 (and now the EMG 81-TW). Which Prophecy guitar did you get? I played an SG at my local store but, didn't get a chance to plug it in. It was nice but, the figuring on the veneer was non-existent. I have to plug it in next time and check out those Epi pups.

 

[upnorthbacon]

I got the em-2, I'm really happy with it, the neck is a 14" radius and plays really fast.  I was going to buy another jackson or esp but decided to try the em-2 first just because it was something different.  I'm glad I tried it first!

 

[DiMitriR33]

I recently bought a Epiphone prophecy guitar and the epi-active pickups are great!  It actually made me decide to go active with my Warmoth product so I ordered a Seymour Duncan Blackout pickup.  I'll post my thoughts when it comes, I was surprised to find it comes with both a tone and volume push pull pot, 9 volt clips, wires, and end jack for the same price as a passive pickup?  I'm assuming there must be more labor involved in the making of the passive pickups or more copper or something?  Anyway I was going to go with the EMG 81 but decided to try the blackout and see how it performs.

i'm guessing more coper and higher demand.
the components of a preamp cost next to nothing. but raw coper is somewhat expensive. probably the most expensive part of a guitar pickup.