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I have searched and searched for peoples experience with this and found very little (which I found odd)
After purchasing a Peavey VIP-3 not long ago, I was somewhat discouraged to find in the manual a warning regarding its use with active pickups. It advised that when used with active pickups the amp might encounter what the manual described as clipping.
it wasn't a problem for a while because I only played a Gibson es175 and an Agile les paul style guitar, both with standard humbuckers. HOWEVER,,,,, last week I bought 2 Jackson guitars. One is a soloist SLX, and the other a RRXMG with an emg85 and an emg81.
What I have found is it seems to work fine. especially with high gain settings. when attepting to play clean it reminds me of playing through the clean channel of my brother ancient tube amp (play lightly you get clean, play hard it breaks up and distorts a lilbit)
but lets face it, who buys an rrxmg and trys to make it sound like an ovation acoustic?
so short story: high gain, sounds great. clean sounds like medium gain, but at least to my ear, not bad.
After purchasing a Peavey VIP-3 not long ago, I was somewhat discouraged to find in the manual a warning regarding its use with active pickups. It advised that when used with active pickups the amp might encounter what the manual described as clipping.
it wasn't a problem for a while because I only played a Gibson es175 and an Agile les paul style guitar, both with standard humbuckers. HOWEVER,,,,, last week I bought 2 Jackson guitars. One is a soloist SLX, and the other a RRXMG with an emg85 and an emg81.
What I have found is it seems to work fine. especially with high gain settings. when attepting to play clean it reminds me of playing through the clean channel of my brother ancient tube amp (play lightly you get clean, play hard it breaks up and distorts a lilbit)
but lets face it, who buys an rrxmg and trys to make it sound like an ovation acoustic?
so short story: high gain, sounds great. clean sounds like medium gain, but at least to my ear, not bad.