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I think there's a reason it's extremely rare...

Quality!

I've never found them particularly inspiring and I wouldn't pay as much as £100 for one.

The machines don't look stock Far Eastern to me. But the over-glossy body does. The control cavity though - it's almost worth going just to check that out!

[quote name='Joebethell' timestamp='1485983022' post='3228318'] Don't do that sell me the fretless neck and buy another status fretted. [/quote] I'd be up for doing a neck swap...

Ones which are tapered over the bridge are better.

I'm not so struck on Fender/MusicMan/G&L, because I'm not 6ft tall; I think they look a bit daft on a 5'7 short-ass. I like Rickenbackers, just because... I like Status Graphites because they are comfortable.

Darn - I was chatting to someone who had a 'faker, but it turns out its treble pickup doesn't work and the bridge has tail-lift, so that's a bit of a damp squib.

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1485900105' post='3227640'] So is that for sale for the same money? If you don't have it I will pay you to buy it amd send it to.me! [/quote] I think I'm going to have it, though I might look to get it re-fretted...

[quote name='Joebethell' timestamp='1485892048' post='3227588'] Big deal again? [/quote] Yep - the same person had the two made. I may have that one too; just having a conversation with myself about head vs. heart...

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1485880697' post='3227469'] I think it's obvious that i was exagerating a bit on this . Active is active and passive is passive, etc... My example was to point out the amount of users saying that they use a passive bass so they don't have to fiddle endlessly with the EQ section of an active bass but then they go and add a preamp pedal to their signal chain to be able to obtain the desired tone. The forum is filled with threads about "achieving this tone" that end up with the addition of a sansamp/vtbass/BDI/etc. In those cases the fiddling avoided on the bass will move on to the pedal, don't you agree? [/quote] Well, I think it relates to the design of the given bass's sound; in the case of a passive one it has been optimised in one way, whereas an active one will have been targeted at the result after the electronics (or even the versatility of the electronics), even if they are just simple volume and tone.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1485806420' post='3226886'] You could argue that if you used a passive bass, passive amp and a passive pa mixer ALL of the sound has been produced by the instrument as only some of what the pickup 'collected' is being amplified (same but louder), once you introduce an active eq in the bass, amp or PA mixer that can create something that didn't happen the final amplified sound is not what went in at the bass pickup and is essentially synthetic. It's not an active bass but it's no less synthetic once it goes through an active EQ. How many amps are purely passive these days and who has a passive EQ PA system? [/quote] You can't have a passive amp. There was a short fashion in Hi-Fi of having passive pre-amps, but they were really just a potentiometer in a box front-ending an active power amp. If you want passive end-to-end you have to have acoustic instruments.

Mine is my Status. It was preceded by a Warwick, which I didn't get on with at all. The Status is rather nice.

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1485773632' post='3226490'] Mine wasn't much more impressive. I was shocked at how much it went for, without complaint. Jon - Bassasin - made me a new one from clear plastic and laser-printed paper for much less (you can see it in my avatar). Holographic sounds fun though. [/quote] It looks good in the avatar.

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1485783826' post='3226629'] Now that would be neat! - I'm sure someone could do it [/quote] Something like "Rickenbacker"/"Rickenfaker" alternating. Now, you can get cards & sometimes magazines which have them - I think I might keep an eye out for one and see if one might work for a background. I had been thinking about having a guitar body painted in the dual-tone finish (like some TVRs) - maybe a deep blue and a deeper crimson.

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1485797896' post='3226789'] Using a preamp pedal allways on EQ'd to achieve the desired tone (as i've read about a lot of BC users doing) between a bass and a amp isn't different from having a preamp mounted inside the bass, is it? [/quote] The difference is it's not in the bass. Actually, I have a SansAmp which I use to boost passive bass to match the active. I do get the point, and indeed I have said on occasion that the instrument includes the amp and speakers too! However, looking at the component parts, an active bass is one which has onboard active electronics and a passive is one which doesn't.

Oh dear - it has a cousin... (Fretless, EMGs.)

Straplock buttons come with a longer screw too, so you could combine the matchstick with a longer screw. (I wouldn't be inclined to use a wider screw though.)

Adding an effect or amp after the output of the guitar does not make the guitar active. By that token, all amplified live music is active and all recorded music is active, since it is processed via a mixer, and reproduced via a replay system with an amplifier. Clearly the term "active" (bass or guitar) refers to the instrument itself and not post-processing.

[quote name='Bassman Sam' timestamp='1485709954' post='3226005'] Thanks, It is. Really happy with it. The GAS has gone , for now. [/quote] It'll be back!

I don't suppose you used an iPhone for the picture, did you? I think that they may not put some info into the photos, as I've had it happen of late when I've uploaded photos to tinypic. I've found the answer is to open it on your PC (in my case a Mac mini) and save it as-is; it then uploads fine. Oh, and nice bass, btw.

It depends how the bass was designed; some are intended to work around the actives, whilst others' distinctive character is because they are passive.

That looks like a nice bass.

[quote name='bumnote' timestamp='1485684738' post='3225721'] Nail varnish will do the job [/quote] I suppose that's handy to know if you're in a glam-rock band...