what changes in your recording when using a active pickup guitar and a passive one?

[Goodfellas453]

Like if I'm recording a non active pickup on guitar does this have that much of a difference in tone? i am trying to work on my guitar tones but when using "the patch" i find it sounds too clean, could it be the patch was made for an active pickup guitar? to fix this would i only adjust the gain? sorry if this is a strange question

 

[ahjteam]

you mean passive pickups?

 

[Goodfellas453]

haha uh...yes passive! i dont really know that much about the difference except one type needs batteries and the other doesnt. my guitar i have available doesnt take batteries so im guessing thats passive? but the tone sounds so much more different than everything i hear in peoples samples...i understand the mastering tools and extra plugs but this tone even after using the starting point doesnt quite have the sound im hearing in everyone elses samples

 

[Beneath_the_Bliss]

i switched to emg 81/89 set a few months ago. I'd say the difference in the recording is pretty noticeable. Cleaner distortion for sure and tighter lows! Majority of Joey's productions are recorded with active pups. Miss May I used Schecter Hellraisers w/emg's and Prada used some Schecters too.

 

[Trevoire520]

I find I tend to increase the tone on the tubescreamer to brighten it up a bit. If you're finding the sound too clean then raise the gain.
Generally you won't get as tight a bottom end from passive pickups. You could try removing some low end before the amp sim to tighten it up.

 

[OneDaySky]

I find that Active pups give more level. Crisper sound and great for feedbacking through the studio monitors. I'm recording a Thrash hardcore band atm and the 1 guitar is a 7 string active pups and the other is a 7 string passive pups and the active I have to pad the input.

 

[Goodfellas453]

ok so heres a sample of my guitarists guitar,
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19141991/with tone.mp3

i have four tracks with "the patch" on them and two tracks to one bus and two to the other with the with the following chain settings on the gutar bus's:
High pass at 100, low pass at 12K and cut out 4k, a cut in 800hz a bump in the 5k range a cut in 8k, then c4 with sneap presets

Heres the Raw DI tracks, i was wondering if anyone can see if they get the tone with these DI tracks, and if anything help me figure out what i might be doing wrong

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19141991/Archive.zip

 

[ahjteam]

with "the patch"

The most famous thing I've ever done. "the patch"

 

[Fandus]

Also not having enough gain could come down to the playing. Hitting the strings harder will let you get away with less gain, especially on passives.