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EMG H4 Passive Electric Guitar Humbucker Pickup, Black

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Features

  • Combines the power of our active 81 with the soul of a passive PAF
  • Produces a well-balanced tone, with tight bass response, glassy mids, and crunchy highs
  • Utilizes over-wound coils loaded with ceramic bar magnets that are fully shielded to reduce noise
  • Often used in the bridge position where it shines with excellent range, responsiveness, and sweet harmonics
  • If you want a big rock or heavy modern guitar sound, this is the pickup for you

Description

The H4 is EMG's best selling passive humbucker for guitar. Combining the power of our active 81 with the soul of a passive PAF, this pickup produces a well balanced tone, with tight bass response, glassy mids, and crunchy highs. These tonal features are achieved by utilizing over wound coils loaded with ceramic bar magnets that are fully shielded to reduce noise. This high output pickup is often used in the bridge position where it shines with excellent range, responsiveness, and sweet harmonics. If you want a big rock or heavy modern guitar sound, this is the pickup for you.

Color: BLACK


Brand: EMG


Instrument Key: A


Material: Metal


Style: Modern


Item Weight: 8 ounces


Product Dimensions: 2.63 x 2.38 x 6 inches


Item model number: H4


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Date First Available: April 13, 2004


Body Material: Mahogany


Color Name: BLACK


Guitar Pickup Configuration: H


String Gauge: Light


String Material: Nickel Steel


Guitar Bridge System: Tune-O-Matic


Material Type: Metal


Instrument Key: A


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Top Amazon Reviews

    • The mistake that redeemed itself
One day I was just browsing the emg pickups, and mistakenly ordered this with Amazon's one click buy function. It was something I had wanted for a cheap guitar that I liked to play, but didn't think I needed it then. I was surprised when it showed up 3 days later, after thinking I only looked at it online. While it may have been ordered by mistake, I am glad I decided to keep it. Up until this pickup I had never done any work on a guitars internal workings and was nervous about doing so. But let me tell you, EMG makes installing these extremely easy, especially if you have a guitar with only one pickup. Their solder free installation is so easy and effective. They have diagrams to show the the setups for multiple scenarios. I was able to install the pickup in 30 minutes (would have been less but I had to modify the guitar a little to fit it), and it worked without any problems and made my cheap guitar sound much better. Not to mention I love looks of the emg pickups, and goes well with my all black guitar. I am extremely satisfied with my mistake, and will be buying more EMG pickups in the future. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2015 by Joe
    • This is a great pickup for bridge!!!
great pickup, use in bridge. Love it better for distortion than the H4A alnico which has great cleans....like seriously cleans like I have never heard before out of my Mesa Boogie clean chan. Simple install, GET THE GROUND WIRE WELL GROUNDED, used a bit of copper foil for under the bridge when mounting into the wood. Works great!!! highly recommend, not a fan of activate pickups and changing batteries. Have used these in my fender strat (tom delonge edition) as well as my ESP LTD TE-201 ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2024 by bob plapp
    • Achieving that metal tone I was looking for
Review Image by 85C 85C
Couldn't be happier. I installed on in the bridge of my Ibanez 450DX that I picked up a few months ago. I noticed an immediate improvement towards the tone that I've been trying to achieve. I considered putting an H4A in the neck but realized that I've rarely switch to middle or neck pickups. Perhaps in the future I will. Since I wanted to use my stock switch and 500k pots, I had to solder the wires directly to my switch. It was a little intimidating because a wiring diagram for the 450DX is no where to be found online. I think that in the future, I might just toss a H4A in the neck, switch out to the EMG pots and buy a 3 way switch to tie all together. My center single coil center pup will just be used for aesthetics. If you play metal and wish to switch out your old passive pups then the H4 is definitely worth a try. If you're worried about having enough room for a battery like I was, this passive pickup might be the right choice for you. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2018 by 85C 85C
    • Probably the best passive I've used
I bought this for a build and it installed super easy! No soldering whatsoever. I installed for use with only a volume pot, and the directions claimed that I may need to solder in 1 spot for the input jack, but I actually fit it on the input jack without any soldering. That's the best part of these new EMG's, no soldering! I find this to be the best passive EMG pickup before the active series (that's if your into those). It's just heavy dark lows that really rip with heavy distortion. They are relatively cheap too, a great alternative to active. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2013 by A$
    • EMG Greatness!
I purchased the EMG H4 to put in my Jackson PS4 Performer that I bought in 2001. I never cared for the stock Jackson pickups, and before the EMG I had a Seymour Duncan Invader in the bridge. I can honestly say that this guitar has never sounded as good as it does now. The H4 is a passive pickup and comes with a jack, wiring harnesses, tone and volume knob using EMG's proprietary wiring hook-ups, no soldering necessary. I still need to get the mid and neck pickups along with a switch, but will do that over time. I get an amazing sound from it, and it really does give new life to an old guitar. I love it. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2017 by Carlos Santos
    • It's pretty good.
Review Image by Mark Mark
I put a SD invader in my Les Paul and suddenly the Jackson was not doing it for me anymore, not wanting them both the same I went with this EMG. Supposed to be their hottest passive pup. So in it goes, first I bypassed putting the supplied pots in and just spliced it in the one I took out and I really didn't think it sounded that good. So I went back in and did the pots also. It's not as easy when you're not installing 2 at a time cause they don't put using only replacing one in a 2 pup system in the directions. But I got it in and I think it sounds better now. Not quite as mean as the invader though. But I like it. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2025 by Mark Mark
    • Great pickup. Almost sounds like an Active EMG
Great tone for metal. Almost sounds like one of the active models. Good for upgrading guitars that don't have a spot for a battery.
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2023 by Roflimus Prime
    • Excellent EMG81 passive version with great dynamics
Review Image by EL34 EL34
This pickup has warmth, edge, smooth mids, good power, bottom and dynamics like a well made pickup suitable for many genre and not limited to just rock or metal. Reminiscent of the active EMG 81 but with all the great traits of a passive humbucker. Super quiet with classic EMG looks.
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2023 by EL34 EL34

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