Need Help wiring Peavey Cirrus Active Pickups

[kodiakblair]

Any thoughts on the volume? It sounds like this is a lot louder and is distorting quite a bit. Are those pickups that much hotter? And thanks!

Best I dig out my RSB.

It's a pair of VFLs going to passive Vol, Blend, Tone.

Distortion from VFLs is generally a battery power issue.

@Kinetic Bass

How you considered just going all in on the passive set up ?

Empty VFL shells can be found on Ali-Ex for maybe $4 each. Then it's just a case of getting 2 humbuckers, popping them out their shells and dropping them in the VFL shells. My prefference would be be Warman Jazzbars but Armstrong Claymores should fit.

 

[PeaveyPlayer]

I don't want any of that with complex switches, I have no room in my cavity for extra battery or the pre-amp. I could try to wire both into the jack without any pots at all, just to see what it does. EMG has nothing to do with VFL, since we don't know how much winding is on EMG vs VFL and what type of chip both companies use inside the pickup. That's why i asked how can i measure them, do they need to be connected to the battery to measure how how hot they are or not. In genral is 25k/50k the gold standard on a any active pick up or it's all differnt based on winding and the chip they use inside it.

If anyone has stock BXP then it would be easy to get a picture of wiring and the pot values

That’s fine then wire it 9V

Any thoughts on the volume? It sounds like this is a lot louder and is distorting quite a bit. Are those pickups that much hotter? And thanks!

Yeah VFls are pretty hot

 

[Kinetic Bass]

How do I wire these without any vol or tone pots at all, both in parallel direct to the output jack?

 

[PeaveyPlayer]

How do I wire these without any vol or tone pots at all, both in parallel direct to the output jack?

Wouldn’t you just take the to hots and extend them to the jack
Ground to the ground and red to a 9V?