Being able to switch sounds
Mid-song and mid-note add no
End of
Options.
I don't think you read the words right before what I said. Here they are again:
"I don't even use tone controls on passive basses"
Think about that. I have two volume controls and two tone controls on my main, and a volume control and a tone control on my backup. Of the controls already available to me, I only use the volume knobs.
That's right, the tone knobs might as well not even be there. As for the volume knobs, I pretty much never actually change where they're set. They may as well be locked into the position that they're in. I don't use what controls I do have. So why would you conclude that I would use additional controls?
The only control I really use with any regularity is the pickup selector switch, for when I want to go between my loud, aggressive sound (bridge pickup), and my quiet, smoother sound (neck pickup). I do this in the middle of many songs, depending on the passage.
I don't need "no end of options." Why would I need a bunch of options that I'm not going to use?
Writing your own tunes and you want the kick to boom so you can walk back to your amp have your back to audience and take a hand away from
The bass or......... keep playing not need a gap of sound and roll it up with your pinkie.
I do write my own songs. But I'm not sure what you mean about wanting the kick to boom. I definitely don't want it to. Pretty much ever. I want a nice, tight thud sound from the kick. I'm not sure what you're talking about with the gap in sound, either.
How many times I want to change my sound mid song is down to the set and band I'm in. In particular if I'm doing non originals at functions etc then
Mimicking the original tones makes you stand out more. Or a
solo comes
Up and you need to drop some boom perhaps bring yourself out of the mix with The mid and treble, switching from
One style to another , funk to reggae ('commercial examples' , long train running with it's middly sound into a police or Marley reggae dub heavy sound)
Look, if I'm playing covers, it's with my folk rock band, and we generally aren't going for sounding identical to the original. If we aimed for that, we'd never match up. Besides which, most of the stuff we'd be covering was probably recorded with passive basses anyway, so my sounds work fine for it.
I never need to drop some boom, because I don't have a boomy bass sound unless I'm using the neck pickup, in which case I can just switch pickups. And I don't play funk or reggae, so I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.
Me personally , I set my bass eq to flat at the start of the night. Get the perfect Nass sound for
That room for Me through the amp, leave the amp as it is and spend the rest of the night riding the bass and have an arsenal of tones and sounds at my finger-tips all night.
All I need from the electronics are two sounds. Neck pickup and bridge pickup. Everything else I want, I can do with my hands.
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but you supplied a lot of reasons why
you would want an on-board preamp. And that's fine, and given what you like, an active bass is right for you. But that wasn't the question you quoted. The question was why
I would want an onboard preamp. And none of the things you talked about really apply to me.
My musical situation and preferences are likely different from yours, as we're different people. The reasons you might like an active bass with an onboard pre might not be (and apparently really aren't) factors for me at all.
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