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Originally Posted by yellofury  Every active bass that I have owned has had
a passive pickup/pickups and active preamp combination
I've been looking into EMG's active replacement pickups with harness for my P/J http://www.emgpickups.com/products/category/24/2
I understand that with active pickups you do not have the option of a passive/active switch
Does the input jack complete the circuit? or is it sucking juice out of the 9 volt 12/7? |
1. With active pickups you DO NOT have the option of an active/passive switch. This is NOT a good thing IMHO. By reason of Murphy's Law I always have more warm fuzzies when I know there is a knob I can pull or switch I can throw that keeps the music going if my battery should suddenly Cack it in the middle of a gig.
2. There is supposed to be a switch on the input jack. (often it's just the "ring" terminal that grounds to the shaft of a normal mono plug to ground the battery terminal and turn on the bass. Some are weird. My G&L for example works without a battery in passive mode, but nevertheless keeps sucking juice in passive mod. Just something it does. It does disconnect when you pull the cord out.
