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Active pickups

An active pickup uses fewer turns of a heavier gauge wire, where a passive pickup would use more windings of a lighter gauge wire. Since the active uses that method of winding, that yields a lower output, but a more broad frequency response. Since that ouput is low, the pickup is boosted by a preamp built inside the pickup. This kicks up the output to around 1.5 to 2 volts for most models. That means that they will hit the amp harder and cause it to distort a bit more. That’s where the idea that active pickups are really high output. Technically speaking, they aren’t. The high output comes from the preamp, not the winding of the pickup.

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Another aspect to active pickups is that the preamp needs a battery to function. Both of the major active pickup makers use 9V batteries with the ability to go up to 27V (using 3 9V batteries). More volts will give you increased headroom. There is a difference in using 18V as opposed to 9V, but the jump to 27V didn’t seem to yield any significant change. However, the argument is that they chew through batteries. While it is true that they do need a new battery, let’s look at the numbers. With one pickup, you’ll get 3000 hours of battery life. That equals out to a little over 8 hours of playing a day every day for a year, including a leap year. If you have dual active pickups, you’d have to play 4 hours a day every day for a year. Those numbers are for the EMG systems. Seymour Duncan’s Blackouts use a little more juice, but you’ll still get a lot of use before a battery goes dead on you. I replace my battery every 6 months.

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Passive pickups

Passive pickups don’t need a battery because they have no preamp inside. The current goes from your pickup, to the switch, to the pots, to the jack, and finally goes to the amp. And after more moving around finally ends up at the speaker where you finally hear it. On a note, amps boost the current from guitars way up to be able to make sound. So the guitar is sending current to the amp, the amp sends no current to the guitar. Still, ground your amp properly or you might end up medium well done.

So now you want to know how they sound. Up until recently, all active pickups were sealed and instead of pole pieces, they use bars of metal. However, EMG recently did a new set which combined the pole piece/bar. You might wonder why that matters. Well it equates to a different sound. Passive pickups with the pole pieces (some passives, such as the BL 500XL and SD SH-13 used a bar setup instead of individual pieces, occasionally referred to as a blade style) have a pluckier, more percussive tone. Actives used a bar which is not as percussive sounding, making for a smoother type tone. With the new pickup, you get the percussive tone but with the clarity and focused tone of the active pickup.

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Passive pickups do sound a bit more natural, a more open type tone. They work well in a variety of areas and good ones are clear under high gain. They don’t have the sort of compressed tone that actives do. Think big AC/DC type rhythm chords. Active pickups can’t get that sort of open and airy sound to them. So if a more natural sound is what you want, passives are what you’ll want. Active pickups do have a more compressed type tone to them and yes, the preamp colors the tone a bit. However, they do not sound the same in all guitars. Different woods, different hardware, and different construction (solid, semi hollow, neck through) will have an effect on the overall tone. Anyone who tells you they all sound the same has either not tried actives or is making a generalized statement based on things they’ve heard others say.

Intinya, jenis musik yang kamu mainkan juga dapat menentukan jenis pickup yang akan kamu gunakan. Berbagai macam forum, musisi dan gitaris dapat menyimpulkan bahwa kedua jenis pickup ini sama2 memiliki karakternya sendiri, pickup pasif (tanpa baterai) memiliki karakter sound yang wide, open, versatile, less feedback, "emosional", hampir dapat digunakan untuk seluruh jenis musik yang ada di muka bumi ini serta yang lebih disukai oleh para gitaris adalah, perbedaan jenis kayu dapat menciptakan karakter tonal yang juga bevariasi.

Sedangkan pickup aktif (menggunakan baterai biasanya 9Volts) memiliki karakter yang cenderung high gain, high output, karakter yang khas, dipakai di gitar dengan kayu apapun, neck apapun cenderung menghasilkan sound yang sama dan "flat", serta butuh perhatian ekstra untuk baterainya.. Pickup aktif lebih menunjukkan taringnya especially apabila dibawa untuk memainkan jenis musik metal dengan distorsinya yang menderu-deru. 

 

So guys, kira2 kamu mau pilih yang mana?!!

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