{"id":10581,"date":"2017-02-02T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=10581"},"modified":"2017-02-03T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T17:19:52","slug":"understanding-the-meaning-of-active-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/gear\/electronics\/understanding-the-meaning-of-active-bass.html","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the meaning of &#8220;Active Bass&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally speaking, the term means that there is a battery in the bass. Most commonly, the battery is being used to power a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/bass-preamps.htm\">preamp<\/a>. The preamp uses a battery and thus the instrument is powered (active). Occasionally, the pickups are active; a bass with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/catalogsearch\/result\/?cat=0&amp;q=active+pickup\">active pickups<\/a> would, of course, also be considered active.<\/p>\n<p>Most pickups (even in \u2018active basses\u2019) are actually passive. A bass can have an active preamp with passive pickups: This is the most common scenario.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/emg-pickups.htm\">EMG<\/a>, MEC and some others have models that are active and require a battery. Sometimes these pickups are used with preamps as well, but not necessarily.<\/p>\n<p>Many preamp manufacturers are designing their control harnesses with passive pickups in mind, as they are more common both as retrofit parts and for OEM use.<\/p>\n<h3>Systems with active\/passive switching<\/h3>\n<p>Some instruments have a switch which changes the signal from active to passive.<\/p>\n<p>This switch is not changing the pickups, or how they function: the switch is not making a pickup active or passive. It is changing the signal path for the controls.<\/p>\n<p>More precisely, an active passive switch is a bypass switch. When in &#8216;passive&#8217; mode, the signal bypasses the active part of the preamp (which is typically the EQ section).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally speaking, the term means that there is a battery in the bass. Most commonly, the battery is being used to power a preamp. The preamp uses a battery and thus the instrument is powered (active). Occasionally, the pickups are active; a bass with active pickups would, of course, also be considered active. Most pickups &#8230; <a title=\"Understanding the meaning of &#8220;Active Bass&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/gear\/electronics\/understanding-the-meaning-of-active-bass.html\" aria-label=\"More on Understanding the meaning of &#8220;Active Bass&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}