Active or not?

[cheyenne]

Concerning Chris's other basses, Moradian, Tobias, Ranney ect... are they all wired passive or are they active electronics.?

Seems I read somewhere that they were all passive so they would work well with his amp settings.

[just_bassics]

Stumped me on this one, Scott, although I spoke to Jim Maroudian a few years back about Chris's custom basses. He described the pickups as EMG's with mid scoops in the bridge position for nice low end with a high end crunch. That sounds like active circuitry to me, but I could be wrong.

Jim's a nice guy, still fixing guitars at his shop in Cambridge but, alas, has no plans to build any more basses in the future. I had called him to get information on the Reality Bass that Chris uses, but apparently only fifteen of those were ever built.

As for the others, anyone?

[cheyenne]

Just curious. You dont read much about Squire's rig accept for the 2 ampegs, and the Marshall. He has an SWR but uses it for the bass pedals.

Seems like he'd have something seperate for the "active" basses. Maybe there's a processor in there somewhere that pads the input.

[BAD RONBO, KiLLeR DWaRfS]

i know his white mpc electra with modules was active. this bass crashed at the toronto drama gig. he tried to fix it on stage but was a no go. the grill in the floor opened on the round stage, down went the mpc and up came the rick and the house went nuts ! got that show on tape...trevor's voice was already blown out from rehearsals.