D circuit changes for active pickups?

[markmalin]

Hi all,

This is kind of an obscure question, but has anyone done any mods to the #183 style circuit to more happily play with active pickups? I don't use active pickups, but was talking with someone who does and uses a #183 style circuit and it's not playing nice with the active pickups. He'd owned a Dumble in the past and mentioned that he thought it had a higher value resistor on the input to help with active pickups. Before I go too far I wanted to ask if anyone else had experienced with this?

Humbly,
mark

[pdf64]

A guitar with active circuitry should have a buffered / low impedance output.
Hence adjusting its volume control shouldn’t affect the tone.
So just turn its volume control down till it sounds best, then implement a potential divider at the amp’s input which replicates that setting.

[markmalin]

A guitar with active circuitry should have a buffered / low impedance output.
Hence adjusting its volume control shouldn’t affect the tone.
So just turn its volume control down till it sounds best, then implement a potential divider at the amp’s input which replicates that setting.

That should do the trick

[sluckey]

If it's just a matter of the active pickup signal being too high and ***IF*** you don't mind drilling a small hole in the chassis or face plate, you may consider replacing the 1M resistor on the input jack with a 1M RV6 style pot. Dial it down for active pickup or set it to max for normal.

You could even put the pot in a small external dongle for a non-intrusive mod.

[markmalin]

If it's just a matter of the active pickup signal being too high and ***IF*** you don't mind drilling a small hole in the chassis or face plate, you may consider replacing the 1M resistor on the input jack with a 1M RV6 style pot. Dial it down for active pickup or set it to max for normal.

You could even put the pot in a small external dongle for a non-intrusive mod.

Thanks, sluckey. I don't mind drilling.

[sluckey]

I would do a temp mockup before drilling.