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Re: Active Pickups vs Passive Pickups
Thanks Dr!
i've kinda gone off of the Active thing...just cuz it will cost too much right now...and i'll need my gutiar routed to do it...prolly $200 for the pickups and another $200 for install
am now thinking to stay with passives but gonna thinking of a Bill Lawrence L-500XL in the bridge ala Dimebag and the L-500R in the neck but if you say the 59 Seymour is cool maybe i will put the 59 in the neck instead
that is one guitar....
as for my main axe...I am mulling putting some alnico II ABH-1's in my Epi LP Standard...i like the covered alnico V's that are in it right now though
but that will give me ceramic in one guitar and alnico II's in the other
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Re: Active Pickups vs Passive Pickups
Are you any good at soldering? If so, just install them yourself. Check out where your leads are soldered now, then just solder in the new ones the same way.
Have you played a guitar with the Bill Lawrences? I had a Washburn N2 that had a L-500XL in the bridge, and it sounded very nasally to me. It also could have been because the guitar was made of Alder, which is a very trebley wood.
Re: Active Pickups vs Passive Pickups
no i havent played anythign with duncans, emgs or lawerences thats my problem 
my guitar that i wanna mod is an epi explorer - mohogany body, mohogany set neck, maple fretboard..with 10, 13, 17, 30, 42, 52 guages with a top bar tail peice bridge (same as a LP)
right now its got some alnico v's (stock epis) they sound ok to me but i wanna make it sound mean ... I'm playing through a Marshall MG50FX combo
Re: Active Pickups vs Passive Pickups
picked up a set of seymour duncan distortions (mayhem set) for $93 on ebay..they retail for $159 and you can get them on musicians freind for $130
high output ceramics so we'll see how it goes...i figure that i can always resell them (maybe even make a few bucks on the deal) or trade them for something else if i dont like them
Re: Active Pickups vs Passive Pickups
if anyone even cares...haha i jsut get the feeling i'm talking to myself in this thread...anyway I got the pickups in the mail last night...now just waiting for new pots and caps to arrive ... once i get it all together i will try to upload a vid of the sound difference...see if all this shit was worth the hastle
I ordered new pots (500k CTS) ... new caps (.033 Sprague Orange Drops) and new wiring (50's vintage cloth pushback) cost an extra $30 but sound quality in the epi's is supposed to be like night and day with a wiring upgrade ... we'll see 
Re: Active Pickups vs Passive Pickups
dude...its insane how much research i've had to do to figure this crap out
so yeah if you ever decide to do it i will def let you know what i know though if you got doc love then maybe my input isnt necessary but yeh i've been reading about this stuff pretty much non stop since i decide to upgrade .. finally got a handle on it...a little bit
