Adam.M

Hey there Bassworld/Basschat. Here is my first irritating and probably quite simple to answer question of many to come Now, I'm looking to change my passive back-up bass with utterly terrible pick-ups into an active bass as quickly, easily and as cost effective as possible. Being predominantly a guitarist for many years I've had a lot of experience with passive electronics and passive pick-ups (bare knuckle pick-ups being my personal favourite, but I shall start creating my own soon) but I've never even touched an active system with my soldering iron. So, what do I need? The bass is a P/J type bass with three pots on it, so it'd need a system with three pots on, hopefully pre-wired. I've been looking at EMG pick-ups and thought this would be quite easy, but I'm starting to think differently... Am I even looking at the right brand here? I'm looking for an all round good tone that i can use reasonably well for rock, stoner metal, alt.rock and singer/songwriter pop. Seymour Duncan Basslines seem to have a wider range than EMG, now I'd never go for SD's in a guitar but for bass, definitely. It's firework night and I just can't figure it out, the fireworks send me nuts, it never eeeeeennnnnnnndsssssss. I guess practising to a click is off tonight then Anyway, any help is appreciated. Adam.

Hey, I've been looking high and dry for a bass forum i used to be on years ago when i first started my musical adventure, bass world. Sad to hear it's gone, but glad it's risen like a phoenix in another name! Anyway, i'm adam, from leeds west yorkshire, 1985 vintage (good year!) etc etc. Started playing bass when i were 17 years old, then deviated to the dark side of guitar up until a while ago and now I'm fully committed to playing bass now that i actually understand what the bassists job is within a band. And my current rig is, a Stagg P/J bass through a Zoom G1 unit into my Denon hi-fi... and it's actually not all that bad, though the bass is 5 years old now and i've tweeked to be as good as it ever can be... It's weird how it's just recently clicked how awesome bass is, and how petty the people who joke about bassists are. All western musicians have to learn exactly the same stuff, all the same chords all the same scales, the same language, the instruments are just a different way of translating that language and knowledge into sound. And bass is certainly my most enjoyable instrument for that! Its sexy. Anyway, i'm babbling as always. Ciao.