what I learned at HCBF blog or...

[someotherguy]

...or guitar geartards or the peril of borrowed gear

 

So I'm playing bass in special music-heavy worship service at my church on Saturday night. We had a chance to spend more time practicing & arranging songs than for a Sunday. We are doing one band set all acoustic with upright bass (not me) and one all electric (me) including electric 5-string violin(fun). So my usually acoustic guitar playing buddy is playing electric through my Bass V-amp's guitar settings (great for small settings--no cranked amps needed). He's borrowing an Epi Les Paul from another singer/acoustic player who is borrowing it from his brother. Well, the thing has almost no output. I keep saying there is something wrong. I see EMG p/u and I'm asking them, Is this thing active? I think it has a dead battery. He thought it was just quiet because he's used of active pre-amp acoustic/electrics. I do like the guitarist's ingenuity, he ran it through a recording pre-amp. But no one ever checks behind the panels. So I finally just take off the back last night, and there's a very tired generic battery. Now it's fine. Being a passive instrument I wouldn't have known, if not for discussion here. Now is there a thread around here about getting people to listen to the bass player? Anyway their good guys, I just wanted to blog.

[jonathan_matos5]

all of my basses are active makes me want to get something passive for a vintage vibe though:thu:

[SpaceGhost]

 

all of my basses are active makes me want to get something passive for a vintage vibe though:thu:

 

Active/passive switch!

[jonathan_matos5]

Active/passive switch!

 

but then i wont be a gear whore.

 

ive got an active passive switch on my tribute l2000 but humbuckers dont have the vintage thump im looking for.. ive got it narrowed down to a cic 51 reissue p bass or a tribute sb-2(when they are available) after i buy myself a rig of course.