If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

  • Passive

    Votes: 86 92.5%

  • Active

    Votes: 7 7.5%
  • Total voters
    93
Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

I can't really say. Could be active, could be passive. I suppose I could do with either.
 
Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

Passives each and every time....Actives were popular for the guys that wanked through refrigerator sized racks in the 80s..
 
Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

STRATDELUXER97 said:
Passives each and every time....Actives were popular for the guys that wanked through refrigerator sized racks in the 80s..
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Wanking through refrigerator sized racks...what a great way to use a poll!
 
Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

Passive. For the stuff I play, there's enough overlap that I wouldn't miss my EMG's. I'd just find passives that sounded close.
 
Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

This is turning out to be a much closer poll than I expected...
 
Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

I hit Active on poll by accident, I definately would pick passives.
 
Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

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Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

Passive...with an onboard preamp that lets me switch to active when I get the urge ;)

I seriously like both passives and actives...they each have their uses and I've always rocked both in different guitars.
 
Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

Phantasmagoria said:
Passive...with an onboard preamp that lets me switch to active when I get the urge ;)

I seriously like both passives and actives...they each have their uses and I've always rocked both in different guitars.
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Best of both worlds...like a G&L L-2000.

I had my L-2000 for over 10 years before I ever looked up what any of the three switches did. When I first got the bass, I just monkeyed with them until I found a tone I liked, and then left them there. Turns out I had the bass set to use the neck pickup, pickups in parallel (not that it mattered with only one pickup selected...and that is why I could never figure out what the switch was supposed to do), and I had it set in passive mode. All those years I thought it was active electronics, like the '77 Music Man I had come from. And I had been changing batteries on the thing all those years! :D
 
Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

My favourite humbucker right now is the EMG 81 in my Tele, so I'd have to go with that. That guitar will sing and crunch with the best of them and it sounds alright for clean playing too.
 
Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

pinto79 said:
My favourite humbucker right now is the EMG 81 in my Tele, so I'd have to go with that. That guitar will sing and crunch with the best of them and it sounds alright for clean playing too.
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Run for cover!!! :firing:
 
Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

List every thread poll in which you have ever inserted inappropriate language!

Also, where is the Rob Option? I lurve my Stingray basses - passive pickups via active EQ - what category does that count under?
 
Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

I'd say passives. However, I've only tried regular Blackouts, where as I've tried a ton of passive pick ups so I guess I'd really have to try more models from Seymour and EMG to really make an assesment.
 
Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

clcwarlock said:
I hit Active on poll by accident, I definately would pick passives.
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Using my administrative superpowers I have reassigned this vote to passives. It's a tough job but someone's gotta do it.
 
Re: If you could have only one tupe of humbucker, would you take active or passive?

Passives with an outboard buffer...?

Or just passives with high quality cable with minimal effects.

So, yeah, pretty much passives...

I'm pretty much sold on the sound & feel of ceramic based passive pickups for my bridge 'buckers and alnico 2 passives for my neck 'buckers.

I haven't heard anything other than those (yet) that gives me the sound I want out of my amps, though the EMG-81 comes close with two fresh batteries at 18 volts. But going through two batteries every few months kinda seems unnecessary when I can get as good or better of a sound with ceramic passives.
 
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