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John Paul Jones is a second rate guitarist?

Phil Lynott Lemmy Sting Charles Mingus and thats just off the top of my head just now

Yamaha Pacifica? Not sure how much they cost stateside but here they are the equivalent of probly $300......

Korn use a 5 string bass tuned down a whole step to A... much of the fat slappy sound to which you refer is a direct result of this as their bassist uses big fat strings that are slack and so slap about on the fretboard. Not sure about the recording side of what they do but there ya go.

EMG HZ pickups are most certainly passive. I have EMGs in my bass (dont ask me the specific model numbers) which are active but the HZs are passive. Hence the HZ suffix to differentiate between the two.

I believe Sonusman wins the "guess the price of the super-console" competition... theres an $800k estimate back there somewhere methinks... Dont get excited mate the prize aint one of them toys......

When I first got an active bass I foolishly left it plugged in. All it did was drain the battery. I dont see how this would fry the pickups tho.... if it did they would end up being fried through enough normal use wouldnt they?

That doesnt seem to make much sense to me for one main reason: Volume Controls I should imagine you have a great deal of control between pickup and recording medium when it comes to the level of the signal.... too loud? roll back the volume on the bass a bit, or the amp, or the mixer whatever...

i have active pickups in my bass collection 5 string with a 3 band active eq too. its all EMG stuff i added myself although the bass collection basses generally come with active eq i think. mine certainly did. I wouldnt say its "hyperactive" sound wise, but then theres a bunch of controls that...

Have you considered the possibility of sticking to your passive pickups but upgrading to active electronics? I have EMGs in my bass and they sound great but they do have a totally different character to passives... might be worth investigating if you like the tone of your guitar but just want to...

I used to play the trombone.... does that make me a musician?

I asked a friend of mine who knows a helluva lot more about music theory than i do about this whole B# business and she reckoned that C is sometimes written as B# in some instances where a part gets transposed to certain keys from other keys. She didnt know why just knew it happened. And that...

A good way to find out would be to take off the cover plate for the control/pickup cavity and see if there are any batteries in there. If not then everythings passive. If there is a battery see where the wires go... to the controls then its active eq, to the pickups active pickups.

I have only one thing to say: Musicman Stingray the most amazing bass ive ever played. Dunno what they retail for over there tho might be a little bit pricey. But they are amazing fluid to play and i think most of the models come with active eq as standard for tonal fun. Now all i gotta do...

Yes you can have active pickups in a bass (or a guitar for that matter) and these are a different thing from active electronics. Basically (as far as i understand it) active pickups have a built in preamp to give you a much higher output from the instrument. They need to be powered by a battery...

If memory serves there are at least two occasions in history where america has joined a war at the last minute to look like heroes without all the effort...... and besides if we HAD been invaded by germany (bass wise at least) we'd all be playing Warwicks....

I broke the A string on my bass once. It was towards the bridge end of the string so i guess that was aggressive playing.... In all fairness a string change had been overdue but hey, whats a guy to do.

Leedon, check out Halfords car paints.. im pretty sure they are of a similar nature to the stuff offered on that site although I would check the actual packaging for confirmation of the actual type of paint. When I used to work for them years ago they had a massive range of colours available...

Playing finger style rather than with a pick might help to smooth out your sound a bit. Using a pick gives a more defined sound with more of that twang of which you speak.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. They should have frozen the bidding at 11 grand.....