woolly mammoth, how bad with active?

Never tried ti myself but Z himself says it sounds too compressed.

 

IMO it sounded horrible with active electronics. Usually I dig weird sounds but Mammoth just sounded weird in a bad way. Imagine extremely compressed low frequency drill. With passive electronics Mammoth is excellent.
I have jazz bass with J-retro and Mammoth works fine when preamp is bypassed.

 

sounded awful to me.

 

Really, really bad with active. Much better with passive.

 

i would go one step further and say it sounded bad with high output passive like my gibson ebo. that huge humbucker put out too much signal for the mammoth. sounded much better with fender p or the rick 4001

 

Sounds horrible with active. Its ironic that the best sounding fuzz pedal only sounds good with low output passive basses, which are not exactly what companies are pumping out these days. I do have to say i love this pedal. Luckily my F bass has passive mode so i can enjoy it!

 

Now i've got a bass with an active/passive switch I'm considering adding a Mammoth to my board.

 

The basses with the active/passive things don't work either. I had a Mammoth with a Warwick Infinity SN and it still sounded bad.

 

Are you 100% it's a true active/passive switch? On my thumb, IIRC all the switch did was bypass the eq section of the preamp.

 

I have J-retro preamp and when it is switched off mammoth sounds really good but when active electronics is on the fuzz is horrible.

 

No, and I don't know how i would tell, but I'm sure you can tell me later when i get home on AIM

 

Easiest way to check if it's truly switching to passive is to take the battery out of your bass and see if you still get a sound from the amp. If it's truly passive, you should still get a signal.

Cheers,
Alun

 

Yeah sounds aweful on bass almost seems to phase on the one I tried, but yeah seriously avoid