How Are Passive Soundhole Pups Different from Electric Pups?

[MarkLee]

Originally Posted by douglasfan1

I would like to ask a question further:
Since magnetic pickup of acoustic guitar and electric guitar are basically the same, could I plug the signal from sunrise pickup into an electric tube amp to get a electric guitar tone?

Have a listen to John Butler; 'Take', 'Pickapart', 'Attitude' etc... for a taste of an overdriven soundhole pickup. He uses Sunrise and Seymour Duncan soundhole pickups.

My Vintage equipped with a Gretsch Deltoluxe sounds very electric, although I prefer a cleaner tone to John Butler in the above examples. It sounds more like a big hollowbody archtop guitar than a flattop.