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Fretless passive Jazz through a mild valve overdrive and spank it like it owes me money.

Don't forget knobs! If I won the lottery and could go on a pedal building bender - these are what I would be thinking about for bass... PCPB Frequency interchange - awesome sounding high pass/low pass -made one Drebbel Bass Preamp/EQ - clone of Southampton Pedals Ictineo Preamp/EQ Capsize Preamp - Broughton Fliptop Mofeta Preamp is EAE modelFet - I think you have the real thing? Scabbard Overdrive - EAE dagger Byzantium Flanger - BF2 Chop shop -Barbershop, made one, you have to use the right spec J201 for the circuit so not sure about Musikding kits for this. SS/BS mini is similar and IMO better. Curds and Whey Distortion - prunes and custard ... made a load of these on my own PCB, love it! Fornicus Overdrive - SS/BS f- overdrive Obsidius Preamp - DG B3k Simulcast or duocast- hudsonbroadcast Parentheses Mini Fuzz - EQD life Desolate Fuzz - Fairfield unpleasant surprise CheeseMonger Fuzz - love tone big cheese - I built the Aion version... Kewpie Fuzz - Japanese muff varient - probably build one this year Nein Fuzz - Fairfield 900 Phase II/ Duo-Phase - mutron phasers Deflector Reverb - EQD afterneath AION Quartz Optical Compressor - Diamond compressor Spectron - Meatball TS-50 bass preamp Acoustic 360 bass preamp Binary - DG duiality Lab series L4 bass preamp - Pearce sounding thing, it's good, but cheaper to buy mine I'm selling! Neurotron - Lovetone ring stinger Quadratron - Lovetone doppleganger Xenotron - flange with no name Conspiracy to Commit Electronics (sushi box's diy stuff) Bassdude - fender bassman Nobelium - Nobel preamp Particle Accelerator - F2B preamp. Delyk - Up down daddy - Pearl OC7 octave Electric druid - Flangelicious Parasit for drunken guitar synth stuff No PCB that can be bothered to find... but schematics ... Phat Phuk B JPTR Jive/SHO Brassmaster

Agreed there is nothing, but what it does mean is that you can make very low impedance pickups (with a very low output), which means that you aren't choking your own frequencies with the pickup, which is what EMGs do. They are active because not only would the noise be an issue, even with 6" of shielded cable, but there would be no point using them without a preamp as the signal would be too small, so might as well put one there. Agreed - active has nothing to do with tone circuits, its just that if you have gone to the trouble of making it active, might as well make a tone circuit. Most of my basses are active, I rarely touch the EQ on the bass. In fact, nowadays that I play on a wireless all the time, there is little point me using an active, as I am already buffered by the wireless, hence most of the time I am using my Ric.

Thanks Lurks. My best wishes to all here - fine work, peoples!

I want to say how embarrassing it is for you to admit purchase of a 6 string guitar on a bass site, but I have Gibson SG GAS 😂

Well if there’s precedent…..

Oddly enough i found it last night by accident. Using Godin Shifter PJ bass for a change into my Handbox WB-100 and BF212 cab. Had the amp Gain 1 o'clock, Bass 1, Mid 3 and treble 12. Master at 11 o'clock. Bass tone midway with selector switch on PJ parallel position. I had the depth of the P but with a really nice mid cutting thru the mix from amp EQ and J pick up on the bass. It really was glorious. It was weird because when i moved the bass tone either way i lost it so i just kept it in same place most of the night. Dave

Agreed but there's nothing magical about active pickups that you can't do with 6" of shielded cable and the right preamp. But any instrument with an onboard buffer, even without tone boost is active. FWIW I have three actve basses but I don't consider it to offer any huge advantages as much of the tone shaping offered is too extreme to be useful.

Interestingly, one of those is wired permanently on, one is added by the tone control

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Depending on circuitry mixing the signals it could. On the other hand, even L-2000 should be allowed to be called active because of its preamp's ability to shape the tone when the treble booster is switched on.

From an electronic perspective having preamps in low-z pickups or having low-z passive pickups with an on-board preamp makes no significant difference.

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ive just got the m1001m tried it for the first time today. it was paired to a genz focus 2x10 i thought there was quite a lot of hiss introduced when the ultra high button in engaged

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So far these are the 3 that stand out as potential builds that would be super handy for me. The Euna is a definite. I’d probably grab one more while I’m there. The Compressor is tempting because it looks pretty easy and my Accountant is ace but noisy. The Muzzle noise gate looks a little more faffy but a noise gate would be extremely handy for me, particularly with the sidechain option.

Usually only some part of the electronics is battery powered, like the tone stack. Therefore the only "active" part of the system is the tone, while everything else, pickups, vol, and blend is hi-Z. There are very few systems that are active from pickups to the output. As an example, systems that have an active mixing instead of plain blend pot are very few: John East, some EMG sets, Noll...

@itu might have meant basses without active tone control (that being part of the preamp instead of "cut only" tone control of a P-bass), but merely with a sort of buffer (call it transparent preamp if you will) being described as active (like L-2000 apart from treble boost).