Are all pots the same? Active/Passive?

[lavmonga]

I don't know if this is a stupid question or not, but can I used regular pots from my passive P bass in a chain with pots that came with my active emg pickup. I only have the one (emg) vol pot and I wanted to add another volume pot for the neck pickup.

[Craig_S]

Usually, active pickups use pots with lower values. I have a set of EMG Jazz pups with 25k pots. I would never use less than 250k pots on a passive bass.

[lavmonga]

Yea, my 500 and 250ks I have laying around probably would destroy something. I'll pick up a 25k.