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Tricalibur

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« 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?
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dave_mc

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« Reply #1 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
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« Reply #2 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.
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« Reply #3 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
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