So do you guys prefer a tone knob on your bass or do you find your basses dont need one at all, even if they dont have active electronics.
Two of my basses are active, and I use the tone knobs...especially on my Carvin AC-40 who's tone is a little too "glassy" without turning down the highs a bit and putting up the lows a tad... One of my basses is a passive PJ and I like to roll off the highs when going to P-bass mode to get that classic tone. Lastly, one of my basses has a single soapbar with no tone control, and this bass sounds so sweet, in both series and parallel mode, that a tone control would be an absolute waste. By the way...I really LIKE the classic, lowpass passive tone control. Also, I think that sonically, you should always start with cut before active boost (to me, it just sounds sweeter that way)
I used to have one on my bass, but I never used it. So I took it off, replacing it with a very useful coil selector switch.
With only one bass to play, I use both the front and rear pick-ups individual tone knobs. As well as the sweep in-between the pick-ups. Without tone, anyone? DB