Preamp swap?

[Myke]

Hello,

I was looking to replace the preamp in my Yamaha TRB5 and had come up with the bartolini HR-5.2/918AP.

I was wondering where I could hear one?

Also, without replacing the pickups could I make it active/passive or not?

Thanks for nay information.

Mike

P.S. I did come up with a previous thread for this but it didn't really help.

Edited February 5, 2014 by Myke

[ikay]

The TRB-5 soapbars are passive so you can go active/passive. Here's a video comparing various preamps including the Bartolini NTMB (the pre you specified above is a configuration of the NTMB). The NTMB demo is towards the end at around 8m 20s. Obviously this demo doesn't necessarily reflect how it would sound in a TRB5. What don't you like about the TRB-5 preamp?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwxXVRxhndA[/media]

Edited February 6, 2014 by ikay

[Myke]

Nothing's really wrong with it, I just fancied a change.

And I'd like to see what my bass sounds like in passive too. It's all about experimenting really. Thank you for the video, I quite like the sound of the Delano in there as well.