Need help with pickups!

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Michael C.

I recently bought a ESP LTD EC-258 8 string guitar and I want to upgrade the pickups.

I don't know what type of pickups this guitar uses.

Every single 8 string pickup I find requires a battery which the guitar doesn't have space for

 

metalhobo

https://www.seymourduncan.com/products/pickups/electric/humbucker?swoof=1&pa_strings=8&paged=1&pa_mounting-type=active-mount&pa_output=high

but, also, you should be able to fit a 9 V battery in the control cavity. you don't need to have a separate battery compartment in your guitar to support active electronics.

regardless of what you choose, you should do some measurements of the original pickups and make the replacements are close. especially the overal width/length/height and the distance between the mounting screw holes.

and FYI I think you would really be able to "fit" any kind of eight string pickup (emg, dimarzio, duncan, fishman, etc.) in there. I just suggested the duncan "active mount" passives as doing a direct mount open coil might look kinda funny with those big square spaced routes around.

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