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That's cra-cra jwar

it's simple, active electronics suck

Yeah man, you use so much dirt and stuff I feel like the active electronics are kind of unnecessary. You could probably dial in the same thing on one of your many pedals and use that as a base tone. I do that with my Mini. If it doesn't work with Mini it doesn't work with my rig. Sometimes I think I should stop doing that like maybe I'm limiting myself, but that's just what I prefer. I don't want to tap dance and turn Mini off to turn something else on and I don't want an a/B switcher taking up space so the solution is to never turn Mini off

The point is, ditch the actives and use something as a preamp/foundation OD.

But I love my bass. The only thing I could see myself doing is installing a passive set of pickups but I'd have to ask Michael Tobias what he recommends. Don't want to fuck the value or the overall feel. I have found some passive electronics to be almost as punchy as passive ones. I've just played active bass for sooo long it's hard to go any other way you know?

Buffer first in the chain, maybe?

Iommic Pope wrote:Also, HighDeaf's patch cable game is a rainbow of win.

Yeah, it's such a googoogaagaa board overall that I can't even kvetch about the cheap colored cables!

Active pickups

active pickups aren't bad at all but how many boutique builders even test their pedals with active instruments? you can't really expect it to work the same as with passive pickups, there's too many variables involved.
if i went back to actives i probably wouldn't touch any analog modulation or delay and use a hi-fi rig instead. kinda defeats the purpose of having a great signal to noise ratio if you start using analog pedals, surely.

John wrote:

Iommic Pope wrote:Also, HighDeaf's patch cable game is a rainbow of win.

Yeah, it's such a googoogaagaa board overall that I can't even kvetch about the cheap colored cables!

Yeah man, I guess the advantage of the patchulator is that, in theory, the cheapo rainbow jobs should actually last longer as once they're plugged in that's that.
And yeah, pedal selection is HAWT.
My phone predicted I would type HAWT. And auto corrects it to capitals.
I don't know if I should roll with this or feel ashamed of myself, somewhat.

Jwar, my Spectre doesn't mind my ebmm sterling. I don't know how hot your Tobias is relative to mine.

jwar's spectre will start working properly once he goes back to a regular diet

jwar wrote:Your board is hot, so I assume so are you.

A safe and logical assumption.

backwardsvoyager wrote:active pickups aren't bad at all but how many boutique builders even test their pedals with active instruments? you can't really expect it to work the same as with passive pickups, there's too many variables involved.
if i went back to actives i probably wouldn't touch any analog modulation or delay and use a hi-fi rig instead. kinda defeats the purpose of having a great signal to noise ratio if you start using analog pedals, surely.

What the fuck are you talking about? LOL!

Active electronics 9/10 work just as well with analog circuits as they do with ANY other circuits. I've owned a metric fuck ton of pedals and have always played active. No issues. Repeat, no issues. I have a mixture of analog and digital, it does not matter. What matters if if the circuit can handle the extra headroom and power being pushed by the active pre. Which again, most cases it can.

Also, my signal is amazing in regards to noise ratio even with 25 pedals in line, analog, digital...again does not matter. LOL.

Almost all boutique builders are savvy enough to test their shit with actives now. There are only a handful, maybe not even that, that I can think of who do not push them that hard.

Regardless, the issue is the with the modulation being pushed more than it can handle, which means my pre is too hot or the trimmers again have been fucked with (more likely the cash). If anything, with an active bass I get more out of pedals than I do with a lifeless, dull passive.

Passive basses suck ass IMO. Now I love passive guitars. Totally different beasts.

resincum wrote:jwar's spectre will start working properly once he goes back to a regular diet

Most likely true. We will see in 6 weeks. lol