Active Vs Passive electronics

[EBS_freak]

Am I imagining this or is it the case that there is a active vs passive argument such as the ss vs valve argument?

All the "purists" out there will say valve. Similarly I have been reading posts where the opinion is that passive is "purist".

For bass, I like SS and active. That makes me the bastard spawn of Satan I presume?

Edited June 27, 2008 by EBS_freak

[Merton]

I like passive and active basses, no preference really.

And I like hybrid amps.

I am therefore the greyist fence-sitter ever

[Dubs]

I like my active basses and the sound of my Ampeg valve head…I don’t have a clue what that makes me :wacko:

[molan]

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='228047' date='Jun 27 2008, 02:26 PM']For bass, I like SS and active. That makes me the bastard spawn of Satan I presume?[/quote]

Me too

Obviously old Satan has been spraying his seed around a bit!

[bnt]

After a few years studying industrial instrumentation (including electronics) I got the message that weak signals need to be buffered as close to the source as possible, if you're going to preserve them. So, when I heard about pickups with buffer circuitry built in to the pickup, that's what I chose to mod my first good bass with. I have no complaints with the EMGs I had put iin in 1991.

[bass_ferret]

I think there are a couple of guys making a lot of noise including one that took the pre-amp off his stingray cos it was too hissy. Millions of Ray's sold but his has a duff pre-amp so they must all be duff.