actives vs passives

Active pickups have a good tone but my vote goes to passive because Dimarzio are just something else

Actives thanks. Love 'em

err i have passive, but wuts the diff?

I THINK actives are high-gain, so they are especially good with lots of distortion. I'm not sure though.

In my experience, passives just have an all around weaker, shallower sound than actives.

That doesn't mean that actives are only for metal... They just have a very rich, full, thick sound. I know technical-death players that use the same actives as some Jazz players...

I haven't had a lot of experiences with actives. A friend of mine has a strat with EMGS, but I've only played it once or twice. My guitar has Seymour Duncans and I really like it, good quality pickups.

Passives are tonally superior. DiMarzios have the best crunch in my opinion. Seymour Duncans have the best thump while palm muting.

Erm... League, most experienced guitarist would stand by active pickups being superior for tone. They cost more usually though.

Yeah maybe but my favorite guitarists and influences use Passives.

Maybe so, but to claim they're tonally superior is wrong is a bit biased really.

Totally biased.Purely opinion. Those guitarists seem to agree with me though.

Dimarzio makes a D-Activator. its supposed to have the power of an active pickup but without the annoying battery

I like EMG's.. I played this Godin that had 'em in it and I love it. I forget the name of the guitar, but I think it looks like my Godin, but it was silver. So metal.

There is nothing annoying about the battery haha, they are supposed to last for 5000 hours of playing.

I changed mine once in the year I've had it, just for good measure, I just opened the compartment, took out the battery and popped the new one in and went on my way.

i dunno................................

Actives.