I have stuck up upon one website and it's about Bacchus guitar . But for the knob,It's not only for Bacchus but it's basically just for my knowledge .


What's the difference if the bass only have Master Tone , Rear Volume and Front Volume


and a bass with Master Volume, Pickup Balancer, Treble EQ and Bass EQ


I'm kinda interested in this one with a black oil finish

Bacchus Standard 4 ( 4 knobs ) ( Active ) AUD2250


Woodline Ash 4 ( 3 knobs ) ( Passive ) AUD1900


Price Difference - AUD300-500 ( Not Yet get discount )



The black finishes with look something like this ( Notice there's 4 knob )







Personal use : I will be using a Roland Cube 30 Bass Amp during practice

Gig : I'll get a 50-60Watt amp with the basic controls such as Master,Treble,Boost,High End,Low End and stuffs.

Which one will be the best one ? ( I know more expensive , more knobs will be better but it's expensive )

This post has been edited by Thalmes: Mar 8 2009, 02:17 PM

if im not mistaken, and if this is standard among all basses:

4 knobs = active (need battery)
3 knobs = paassive (no battery)

I thought that's for the type of pickup ?

could it be 2 volume, 2 tone knobs?

maybe, each pu have its own tone n vol

Well , Which is better ? I suppose the one with most controls ?

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not necessarily. i personally dont like having 2 volume knobs cuz i have this habit of rolling down the volume knob when i'm not playing..

as for the tone knob i dont really use it that much

oh.. it's just from my observation..... i think most active pickups have more knobs than passive pickups... so that was how i made my conclusion

Basses with passive electronics will have volume control for both pickups (for J & P/J configs).. They allow blending between both pickups with the means of regulating their individual volume.. No pickup selector switches like guitars here...

Basses with active electronics (which the pickups themselves are not active, just that there's an onboard preamp to provide better EQ and range) however comes with a pickup balancer (most basses) and bass, treble and sometimes mid cut/boost knobs.. The pickup balancer uses a different way of blending by panning the volume between the 2 pickups, which means you have better control over the sweet spot between the 2 pickups.. And because you have an active preamp, you get to actually boost (add more gain) to treble, bass or mids for the output tone unlike passives that only cuts...

Overall, actives are louder and have clearer response over a wider frequency spectrum ( lower lows, higher highs)... So there you go, hope that clears things up...

That's clear . Yeah thanks for that ... Still browsing for more though . But either way , Passive sounds good also right ?

get the 4 knobs
u may upgrade the electronics later easily

volume / blend / stacked-bass-n-treble control / mid control
or the volume /volume version

with 3 knobs...i might need to further drilled in...

If you have a good amp with proper balance and EQ in front of the amp, passives are just as good... just that you don't have a couple more tone controls onboard your guitar...

passive pu is more groovy rite?

u can listen more to the tone of the wood for passive system....
IF you guitar HAS body tone....
IF its build of solid wood and nt plywood

thats mean... if we set all the knob to max, active pu will sound more loud rite? so passive pu need a good amp laa

ooooo...minsat's bass.

Yeah...It looks really nice . Thinking of getting one in the future . But noticed that there's a lot of type,model for this design.


updated the first post with more information on the guitar's spec and how will I use it when I got it . Can take a look there then reply . Thank you

This post has been edited by Thalmes: Mar 8 2009, 02:18 PM

jz a reminder, acitve pup doesnt necesarry sound louder than passive pu
as oppose...passive pu usuali has a hotter output

with an active preamp in the cavity can make it active with passive pups...
and an interesting thing is wen u hav an active/passive switch



get an amp like 100w above...u wunt regret it
60w is abit too low...even wen u push up the volume max...
the notes wil get distorted and harm ur speaker....

I'm using a Active system bass now . 100w is too expensive to me , Still a student here. We'll see what I can do on this coming Thursday in the instrument store.

But the 2 bass also few thousand bucks already @.@

I wan buy a 1k yamaha also i think properly for a few weeks first.