GreeneKing

[quote name='niceguyhomer' timestamp='1356290501' post='1908884'] Yo Pete, if you're planning a trip northbound M6 to try the Aggy, let me know and if I'm not doing anything I'll come with you to see Pedro. [/quote] That would be a pleasure guys

John and I have previous We met in a car park, goods and cash exchanged hands and two furtive bassists made their way. John is a star! Peter

Pete. I have a 2 channel Aguilar AG500 that I've owned from new. It's surplus to requirements. You're welcome to try it out if you're interested. It's in a neat Boschma flight case but I have all the original packaging. Peter

There's more to this than a simple active vs passive thing. I've played passive basses that were poor. Poor pickups and that's the end of your tone. Active basses have an ability to rescue poor inherent tone imo. Generally I prefer active but my Yamaha BB2024MX with the Hollywood pups is huge in terms of tone and just doesn't need a boost.

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1314203509' post='1350506'] All people are different. Some like to plug and play and not worry too much of the nuances of "tone", while others enjoy an understanding of "tone" and like to play about with it and use it as an expression of the music. Sometimes a passive bass can fall into the hands of an aural-ist but although being slightly limited by it's passive tone, fits the players criteria perfectly well. Sometimes an active circuit is added to correct or give headroom to an unenjoyable tone (often with less than spectacular results), sometimes it is added to enhance an already good tone and sometimes it is there by design. Sometimes the active circuit is taken away entirely because the player doesn't grasp the concept of their active circuit. The most fundamental thing to remember though is that with a passive circuit the rule of thumb is that you can only remove frequencies (tone) but with an active circuit you can boost and cut frequencies (as defined by the circuit) giving the player an expanded pallet to play with. I like basses which can do both. [/quote] Nice response, sober then Rich?

Congratulations. Beautiful indeed.

[quote name='Hutton' timestamp='1356170993' post='1907550'] Why bother to post then? [/quote] +1

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1356006406' post='1905543'] Partly guilty although my made for me bass will cost less than the US made Fenders, and I am having lessons... [/quote] Your ACG will help inspire you to greater things AND as you say, less than a mass produced and very basic US Fender

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1355939563' post='1904844'] Pretty much every single thing that comes with this logo attached: [/quote] Nowadays and sometimes perhaps, but go back 20 + years and you'd be so wrong.