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Originally Posted by NervX5
I apologize to post about BASS in the Guitar thread but:
Hey Guinness! Hope all is well. I haven't been on much lately.
You said: "I'm a bass player and no one ever listens to bass players and we always get the short end of the stick  "
I SAY JUST TURN UP!!!
Be careful if you get that Active Zone bass. I have a Fender American Deluxe Jazz V that I REMOVED the active preamp. I found that it "colored" the bass sound too much. You can't turn it off or disable it by removing the batteries. I started with new pots and everything and made it passive. Much better! You can find a few people around the web that say the same thing.
I also just bought the Marcus Miller Jazz V. I highly recommend that! If you don't care for the 5 strings, the Marcus 4 is still a very good choice because it also has the active/passive switch. I leave the preamp OFF all the time on my bass. |
And here I thought everyone raved about the active stuff because it gives the bass more BOOM and just makes it sound "bigger". I've also heard there is new technology that is starting to bring some guitars into the active realm.
As for changing active to passive, when I used to play with a band back in highschool/college, the guys wanted to kill me when they found out I removed my active pickups for passive... and the shop I took it to was close to not doing it cause they said I was crazy
