Active Humbucker Pickup
New guitar pickups help?
I want to swap from my passive pickups to new active humbucker pickups. Any help on a choice of good (from experience) pickups would be helpful. I was thinking of getting an EMG and a seymour duncan pickup as i play a wide variety of music so im looking for 2 very different pickups 
I've owned EMGs, and I don't like them. They are very compressed and have little dynamic range. A tad noisy, depending on how they're wired up, too. Nice tone, but feel artificial to me when I'm playing. I really like that whole "pick quiet, quiet tone, pick loud, harder tone" thing, you don't get that as much with EMGs. Not bad for rock and metal, though, where that kind of stuff is a little less important.
It's very difficult to have both active and passive pickups on the same guitar and have it sound right. Ask a tech before you decide that that is the absolute way you want to go.
Some of the active pickups have a split coil option, that would give you a pretty wide variety of sounds.
If I ever went active again I would go with the Seymour Duncan Livewires, specifically the Dave Mustaine model. I don't want a load of bass (the Blackouts have a lot of bass, good for detuned guitars), I want a focused midrange, and that model has that. I think I can run them in 18v, which gives a better quality of sound. The reviews I've read have said that the Seymour Duncan models have less noise, too.
At this point I use passive pickups with an onboard buffer amp, which is a preamp with a gain of 1. It gives me a more solid, consistent sound, it means I don't get the tone sucking thing no matter how long my cable is, and I can still use my passive pickups and still retain that larger dynamic range.
Saul
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