Laughing City

Active or Passive
Active
42%
 42%  [ 6 ]
Passive
57%
 57%  [ 8 ]
Total Votes : 14

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guitarfreak217
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Bartman wrote:
Active RULES on a bass guitar. But for jazz, it's got to be a stand-up Dorbo bass with a microphone on it!


Or a really nice piezo pickup. I've heard those used with very good results.

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Saellys
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My Tele has active pickups, while my Strat does not. It makes a huge difference, and in my regular routine (playing guitar in a worship band at church on a wussy 15-watt amp with no effects), I've come to prefer playing the Tele. It's so clear and crisp, and by comparison my Strat tends to sound muffled and weak. That's just my opinion, drawn from my meager experience.
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Well, active for me. It is true that it can cause some feedback when you use certain effects, but it gives the guitar a lot of kick! I LOVE IT!

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Oh you crazy kids and your solid state, active pickup liking ways. You'll learn soon enough.
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ryan fisher
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conundrum66 wrote:
Oh you crazy kids and your solid state, active pickup liking ways. You'll learn soon enough.


gibson explorer with emgs + diezel vh4 or bogner uberschall = heaven on earth
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conundrum66
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P-90's into AC30 = Tone
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ryan fisher
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ac30s are cool...i even thought hard about getting one for awhile, but i'm partial to the orange ad30 myself when it comes to that class a sort of thing
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conundrum66
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I don't like the way an AD30 distorts. I do however like the way a OD120 distorts. I'm weird like that.
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guitarfreak217
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ryan fisher wrote:
conundrum66 wrote:
Oh you crazy kids and your solid state, active pickup liking ways. You'll learn soon enough.


gibson explorer with emgs + diezel vh4 or bogner uberschall = heaven on earth


So freaking true. Very close to the guitar/amp setup that Claudio from Co&Ca uses too. Only he's using a Boogie Triple Recto.

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conundrum66 wrote:
I don't like the way an AD30 distorts. I do however like the way a OD120 distorts. I'm weird like that.


i'm just not that big of a fan of the original orange stuff. the newer ones, though, are stellar- both the ad series and the rockerverbs. i especially love the ad30's dirty clean sound (as opposed to an uberschall's clean dirty sound Razz )
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ryan fisher
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guitarfreak217 wrote:
So freaking true. Very close to the guitar/amp setup that Claudio from Co&Ca uses too. Only he's using a Boogie Triple Recto.


the boogie rectos are awesome, but the vh4 is even better. too bad they're 4 grand Crying or Very sad
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conundrum66
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Get someone in Europe to sell you a used one, they have really bad resale value over there.
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Squirly
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i prefer passive myself, for jazz too. sometimes active cool though
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boone
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I really don't like active pickups. Too flat. Onboard preamp, too many knobs. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to have two preamps in your signal chain, either. Call me old fashioned, but something like the P-90 or the Danelectro lipstick pickup has way more character than an active pickup. Having the tone built right into the pickup is nicer than fiddling with knobs anyday.

Lipsticks sound great on a bass, too. Lakland makes a bass with lipstick pickups and an onboard preamp. Active lipsticks. Weird.

I like the clean tone on the Diezel VH4, oddly enough.

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