Hey, I just had a few questions. I have a 7621 with two EMG 707's installed, one in the neck and one in the bridge. I think that the bridge pickup sounds absolutely amazing with distortion, it's the most clear, defined, non-muddy, edgy, heavy tone you can get out there (unless someone can convince me of a passive that can otherwise do this, all of the one's I've tried don't do it for me distortion wise :wink: ), but the neck on clean doesn't sound good at all! I mainly use my bridge pickup for rhythm playing and my neck pickup for clean or to fatten up solo's, and it wasn't until I plugged in my old stock 7620 and played with it's neck 'bucker on clean that I realized that the EMG sounded severly harsh, dry, sterile, and ear piercing compared to the passive on my 7620 (it shouldn't really be a suprise to me, the 707 is basically a 7 string 81, and most people don't play an 81 in the neck for clean, they use an 85/60 for the neck. I don't see many people with a 707 anywhere but the bridge anyways, and the one's that do have it in more places than just the bridge don't play clean that much anyways. Now if they could only make a 7 string version of the 85/60/89...). I'd like to have a full, open, nice, warm, clean, sweet, shimmering, bright (pleasing, defined, clarity bright, not painful bright like the EMG, and NO MUDDINESS), and I was thinking about taking the EMG out of the neck and putting in either a Seymour Duncan '59 7 or Jazz 7, or a DiMarzio Blaze neck or PAF 7 (this way I could also coil tap the neck for those single coil tones I sometimes crave, although this would leave gaps in the sides from the EMG routing. Shoot, that means I may have to get a body and/or neck from Mr. Kolesar someday when I can afford it :wink: ), but can you even have both active and passive pickups on the same guitar and have them both work? And if you can, are there any downsides or compromises to it? What do you people suggest? Keep the EMG in the neck, and mess with the tone knob on my guitar or the EQ settings on my amp? Could my Marshall Valvestate running through an Ampeg 4x12 with GT-75's also be the culprit behind the horrid clean sound? If I do change the pickup in the neck, what do you suggest? One of my ideas or something else? Anybody else experience the situation I'm going through right now? Any help and opinions is very appreciated.