A new bass built from different brands/good idea?

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After some searching I found that my idea of having a filter was a bit lame as you would need a battery per filter (didn’t think about it). The guys over at the Moog forum explained this to me, and the filter will just be an outboard MF101, not in the bass itself.

Still waiting on those guys from Sandberg to make me their offer.

For the pick ups I’m probably going to go with 2 passive humbuckers.
Haussel seems to be top notch from what I hear, and I don’t think Seymour Duncans are bad either. But if I want a passive bass with 2 humbuckers that has a lot of mids and bags of growl, what pick ups do you guys think would be appropriate?

Gave a Stingray with a 2 band preamp a test drive last weekend. There’s something I don’t quite like about its sound. It was set up pretty poor though. The guy recommended me the Ray HH, but I don’t know, at this time it’s just not doing it for me, there’s no spark.

So, throw in your thoughts!

You could try MEC MM-style pickups, like what are in the Warwick $$. Those are passive, have lots of midrange and mine growl like crazy. Also can be coil switched any way you want. The ACG Filter preamp has been compared to the Wal sound, and that's a good thing. I bet it would work well with the MECs.

 

[Bright Midnight]

You could try MEC MM-style pickups, like what are in the Warwick $$. Those are passive, have lots of midrange and mine growl like crazy. Also can be coil switched any way you want. The ACG Filter preamp has been compared to the Wal sound, and that's a good thing. I bet it would work well with the MECs.

Had a look at the ACG site but preamps are quite a new thing to me so nut sure what type would suit my needs. Like this idea though! Here's my preamp nooby question: can a preamp work passive? Isn't having a preamp the same as having an active bass?

 

[Bright Midnight]

ACG all the way man! My God! I knew Wal used filters in their preamps but I figured that's where it stopped. Just read the specs of the filter based preamp and this thing really got me thinking. I mean my first thought was to get a Moog filter for each pick up, but this ACG even lets you dial in resonance and has a high pass filter with dedicated volume! Man, these are the things I fiddle with on synths, but not on a bass! TB is becoming my Bass Guitar Discovery Channel!