Active Barts and Active Preamp?

[Zooberwerx]

This has probably been asked before so just humor the ol' boy!

I'm thinking of an installing a pair of active Bart soapbars (yes, active) to replace an existing active EMG pup / harness setup. The EMGs are an excellent product, just a little too nasal for this particular instrument.

Here's the sticking point: the active Barts came with a passive control harness (vol, blend, treble roll-off) which limits tweakability. I'd like to couple the Barts with an active preamp. Is this practical and, if so, are there additional considerations I've overlooked?

Thanks for the help.

Riis

 

[luknfur]

FWIW:

seems the only active Barts I had were the 9E, 8TS (think it was - their PJ's). The neck in the 9E set was actually passive. So the 9E and 8TS I assume they didn't intend to be used together - and I didn't use them together (In recall anyway). Both these had a wierd wiring to them so I'd check for that with the one you're considering. The 9E had a strange tone pot wiring. Anyway, I didn't see any significant difference in the tone of them compared to the passive Barts so in my view it wasn't worth messing with aside from an education.

No reason I'm aware of a Bart pre (or other) wouldn't work fine with them - aside from maybe the wierd wiring. Most actives simply have 3 leads like the EMG's. Bart may have intended their actives to be used with a passive harness. Don't know. You can call a Bart distributor and find out. Each of these pups had like 5 or 6 wires.