Kevin Pope Posted on Feb 07, 2013

What is wrong? my active bass whether i put a new battery in or not sounds passive no change whatsoever. quite a bit of the low end is severely missing. Schecter STARGAZER 5 bass.

I took this bass and another active bass, played through the same amp, same settings. what I did to one bass i did to the other. played with battery in, played with battery out. the other bass lost low end without the battery, but upon putting the battery back in the low end returned in a huge way. my Schecter STARGAZER 5 BASS however stayed the same with or without the battery in place. its went from a thundering beast to a shadow of its former self.

Kevin Pope Feb 07, 2013

the PA at a church. I rotated the knobs the whole bit and regardless the low end never returned like it was. regardless of battery change as well.
Kevin Pope Feb 07, 2013

i played through a direct box and PA.....everyone elses bass they play through sounds fine unchanged, but mine. (the other guys play a fender jazz and the other a Ibanez SG) my bass was blowing them out of the water..not now

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That bass combines passive EMG pickups with an active preamp (which provides the bass and treble controls). Sounds like you are never getting the preamp to work, and if that is the case there could be numerous reasons...a dead battery...jack wiring that is broken (meaning the battery ground wire is not attached or is grounding out)...likely should see a tech, but that is a good sounding bass when working correctly.

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