I don't understand the hangup about batteries. I own dozens of active basses. I play several of them on a very regular basis. I have NEVER had a battery die on me at an inconvenient time. Or even by surprise. In fact only once on my very first active bass. Batteries last a LOOONG time in an active bass. Even a very active gigging pro could ignore the battery for 6 months or more without incident. The less-than-professional user could easily get a year out of a decent quality onboard 9 volt. I change mine about every year & 1/2 just to play it safe. They always test good when I take them out, but I worry about leakage so I refresh them occasionally. Most modern basses have a quick change battery box that makes changing the battery a 30 second endeavor. To totally modify an instrument over having to install a $2 battery once a year is over reaction IMO.
FWIW on most of my basses if I want passive tone I simply flip a switch and the bass becomes a completely passive instrument.
I hear ya!!!....I'm the same way about onions.
The onion is the noblest of all vegetables.
The oldest known harvest dates back to around 5,000 BC, over 7,000 years ago.
The sulfuric compounds in onions cause us to cry when we chop them.
To cut down on the crying, chill the onion, and cut into the root end of the onion last.
Eating parsley will help get rid of that pesky onion breath,
so there is absolutely no logical reason to despise them.
Real men eat onions, and the sexiest women I’ve known always had a spare in their purse.
Onions are very healthy to eat.
They are filled with complex sugars that keep our metabolism healthy, vitamins, minerals,
dietary fiber, beta carotene, folate (one of the B vitamins), and they have no fat.
But can you believe there are still people that deliberately order burgers without onions?
I just don’t understand this either….057912
