hi - need your help guys

[Vuts]

well, im getting a guitar soon and am a bit confused on what to get
passives or actives???

i did my search on the forum but i couldnt find a clear answer
i know it depends on personal taste and on a thread Andy mentioned that passives work better with marshals and actives with boogies
...i now play with a peavey EVH wolfgang and i like that dull heavy sound

how annoying is the battery issue with actives? is there a tone change when battery is dying?

btw i have my fixed on that Hellraiser C1 FR for quite a while now

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

how annoying is the battery issue with actives? is there a tone change when battery is dying?

To me it really isn't annoying at all. You can clearly hear the difference in your tone when the battery is dying, and one good 9V battery lasts pretty long if you remember to remove the plug from the axe when you stop playing. It's not like you'd have to be changing the battery every time you start playing

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

All my guitars have active pickups

 

[Noumenon]

and besides. an easy acessed battery box in the guitar and some recharge 9Vs solves it. If not, make a phantom power cable...

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Passive user here.

But I am the minority.

 

[AudioPhile777]

I use both actives and passives... I actually like them both for different sounds... passives sound warmer, actives sound meaner/grittier...

I also have the Hellraiser, no trem, though... hate em. Great guitar though... I use it more than anything else I have...

 

[Jaymz]

Actives, including the most powerful and devastating bridge pickup ever made *they claim*

 

[TheStoryteller]

I prefer actives for rhythm playing... right now I use the Seymour Duncan Blackouts which are great, and I also like EMG 81/85. In the end it's a question of what YOU like. My Krypt-compadre swears by his passive Duncans.

 

[-J-]

I'm passive all the way - I went from a Dimarzio Tone Zone to a Seymour Duncan Distorton to a Bill-n-Becky Lawrence L-500L. Something about a battery in my axe I don't like. Plus, the guitars I've played with EMGs sound kinda stale to me. Less organic.

I'm so happy with the Lawrence in my main axe, I stopped my search long ago. I still keep the Duncan Distortions in my other non-main axes though.

I learned it's nice to have different p/ups in different guitars. I don't like having 3 guitars with the same Duncan. I'm not going to switch them out, but I wish I would have mixed it up.

Just be sure to go with a good company: EMG, duncan, lawrence, bare knuckle, dimarzio, etc.