Peavey made the Nitro Active from 1988 until 1990. It was like the Peavey Nitro I except its had a single low impedance humbucker with active circuitry. The Nitro Active had the Kahler 2710 double locking tremolo system. Peavey described the Nitro Active as follows:

"The Nitro Active combines the straightforward function layout of two controls and a single pickup with the latest in "micro" electronic capability. The massive bridge humbucker is "internally" active and will deliver.....from the cleanest clean sounds to the most harmonically rich. world-class distortion, the Nitro Active will “light up" your lead solos and let you drift into a smooth, flowing rhythm pattern with exactly the right tonality. The "active" Nitro can be dangerously habit forming....."