Controls preffered?

[Ramirogg10]

Hey everyone! Hope you all are good! i just wanna know whta do you preffer in a bass:
simple design like just a volumen Knob and you master your sound in another hardware?
or a eq, phase inverter, and tone control knobs in the bass? Thanks

 

[Riff Ranger]

Sounds like you need a poll

Either a single volume for a passive setup, or 3-band EQ and volume for active, for me.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Generally I prefer a master volume, pickup blend, and a bass, mid, and treble control with a mid frequency switch (or stacked lo/hi mid controls) and an active/passive switch. I’ve been using a bass for the past few years that just has a volume, pickup blend, and active boost switch and I’ve been getting by OK.

 

[Gilmourisgod]

I like it simple, master volume, blend, and master tone with two pups. You could expand that with coil switching, but just the three knobs works for me.

 

[TheLowDown33]

Volume and tone for me, and I always prefer a switch on basses with more than one pickup. Blend pots have never been gradual enough between the extremes and the center détente, and I want to quickly cycle the pickup combinations. I enjoy series and parallel options as well, whether it be between pickups or internally, although one wiring tends to sound best most of the time.

 

[Dave TB Killer]

As simple as possible. I have two basses that are wired direct from pickup to output jack. I hate the urge to fiddle with knobs. Now I just scratch my butt instead.

 

[4Mal]

I dig a P Bass stock. I also dig a 2 pickup active with Vol, Blend, stacked bass & treble, passive tone. Oddly, one of my fav active setups is the Lakland xx-01 import Bartolini setup with their lower end Vol Blend (pull for passive) B-M-T. Ultimately, in my stable I need both.

 

[KeithAlanK]

The usual active EQ setup of volume, blend, treble, mids, and bass works fine for me with the blend all the way to the neck pickup.
On 2-band EQs with just treble and bass controls I'll bump them into the boost zone a bit to effectively "cut" mids and leave it there.

Any EQ changes are minor--within maybe 3db of flat--and geared more towards matching the low and high frequency content between basses so the only apparent change in FOH sound is the midrange voicing of each instrument.

 

[butterfingers1]

Tone knob.

 

[Silthis89]

Even on my active basses I tend not to use the eq. I find a setting that I really like and leave it as is prefering tweaks to come from preamps and whatever else I have in my signal chain. So for me a master volume and pickup blend/selector are the most important. Everything else i tend to ignore

 

[Koog]

Two pups, passive set up, V, V, T, T. I can get anything I need with this.

 

[mongo2]

My preference now is a single passive pickup with no controls. I let my amp or SABDDI do the work.

 

[darren1970]

I'm pretty much totally passive electronics theses days.
Vol, vol, tone is my preferred although I have a Jazz with 2 concentric pots Vol/Tone stacked which is rather good.
I'm awaiting a passive Dingwall with Vol, 4-way pickup selector & Tone. Interested to hear what that can achieve.

 

[CallMeAl]

I prefer simple. My main is a VT p bass. My second is a VVT j-style bass.

for a bit I had VBT in that second bass, thought I needed the master V. But I found I preferred the tone with VVT. I “lead” with the neck pickup anyway, and use the bridge pickup more like a second tone knob.

 

[andrus108]

+1 to brave souls running no controls! :-D

The way I've been using my PJ Ibanezes so far, I had the P wired straight through, and J with volume / tone; of course there is a two way switch also. Because one of the basses had an extra pot hole, I put a tone with a guitar capacitor (very subtle change to the top end) on the P. Pickups are passive Dimarzio Model series.

 

[Naviiin]

I'm all about simplicity and a clean design, so it's a passive V(V)T for me. The stupid part is that I absolutely adore the playability of Ibanez SR basses, but none of them come with that setup.

 

[Hundred proof]

simple and versatile … volume/treble/bass for each pickup

 

[andrus108]

I'm all about simplicity and a clean design, so it's a passive V(V)T for me. The stupid part is that I absolutely adore the playability of Ibanez SR basses, but none of them come with that setup.

I have two late 80's SRs that come in PJ configuration, and totally right, they have 24 ACCESSIBLE frets, plus super thin necks. If that's what you want look at at old (are they vintage yet?) models, usually MIJ too.

 

[Durham52]

I have used and do use a few variations, current favorites are the ones with *
2 pickups VVTT,
2 pickups blend VT +varitone,*
3 pickups with mini switches for off/on (8 options/combinations) VT
2 pickups blend VV active LMT boost and cut preamp*
single pickup, VT+varitone*
single pickup VT active mid boost

 

[Rob1957]

On a passive bass simple controls.
Volume and tone is fine.
On an active bass volume,blend (if two pickups), treble, mid, bass are preferred