Mixing Active/Passive Q?

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

Alright...just got my 85 bridge today...holy crap, this thing ****ing rocks. I like it better than my DD. Quiet as a mouse, too. I have it wired up with the neck pickup, each with it's own volume/tone pots. The tone pots are in the cavity, so I have a volume for each on the guitar itself. It works, and the volumes are balanced, but the neck (passive) has this ungodly hum, and it gets worse when I touch anything in the ground loop (Bridge, strings, tuners, etc...) I have the passive pickup grounded to the bridge, and it's 2 pots grounded together, and the active's pots grounded together (you dont ground the actives to bridge). Did I do something wrong, or is this just the nature of mixing active and passive?

 

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Re: Mixing Active/Passive Q?

it's the nature

 

[theodie]

Re: Mixing Active/Passive Q?

it's the nature

+1

 

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

Re: Mixing Active/Passive Q?

Blech...time to save for a 60a.

 

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Re: Mixing Active/Passive Q?

yep

 

[Imp]

Re: Mixing Active/Passive Q?

i got 89b,85n - dont think much of the 85 in the neck

thing is with EMGs, try *everything*. swapping positions can have surprising results

 

[some_dude]

Re: Mixing Active/Passive Q?

i got 89b,85n - dont think much of the 85 in the neck

thing is with EMGs, try *everything*. swapping positions can have surprising results

I like the 85n for distorted lead, but not for cleans. I was about ready to swap it for a 60 or 60a when I started messing around with my eq (I have a Boss GE-7 frist in my signal chain after my guitar). I cut the lowest 4 sliders between -12db and -15db, plus -3db on the level slider, and I got a really nice sounding clean tone out of it.

I still plan on putting a 60 in there and tossing the 85 in the bridge of my Strat, but I figured I'd toss that little story in there as a testament to the power of an EQ when matched with the flat responce of EMGs...

 

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

Re: Mixing Active/Passive Q?

I'm perfectly fine with the 85b, I hated it in the neck of my RG, too bassy. I only use neck pickups for sweeping, legato, and cleans/light distortion, so the 60A is going in the neck. Warmer than the 60, which will be good, since the guitar is Alder/Maple capped.

If I end up putting EMG's in my Schecter, though, it'll be 81/60, because it's mohogany/set neck.