Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum

Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Tricalibur on February 11, 2006, 09:30:47 PM

Title: Pickup Combo
Post by: Tricalibur on February 11, 2006, 09:30:47 PM

Im thinking about putting an EMG 85 humbucker between two warpigs on my epi SG. So my question is, can you mix an active p/u with passive ones?

Title: Pickup Combo
Post by: dave_mc on February 11, 2006, 09:48:09 PM

^yes, but afaik, you need different valued pots etc. for each.

basically, you can do it, but it's more effort.

EDIT: and what mr pig said

Title: Pickup Combo
Post by: Steve-Mr Pig 2U on February 11, 2006, 09:48:22 PM

You can but it is not avisable, active pickups use 25K pots, and have no ground, so you would need a seperate curcits for the passives and the actives, also you would have a volume imbalance because of the loads that each delivers to the amp. With actives and passives its best to choose one or the other, not both.

Title: Pickup Combo
Post by: Tricalibur on February 12, 2006, 03:58:20 AM

yeh I agree with ya'll on that now that I think about it a little. Also, this should prob have been posted in the 'pickups' section :D . Thanks 4 ur help