Active/passive switch with passive tone control on a Fender Pbass american deluxe 98

[FMartinez]

[color=#141414][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3] Hi guys!
I have an active 1998 Fender precision American deluxe bass with no passive option and I want to have that feature.
Anyone knows a way to do it?
My technician says that it can be done but without a passive tone control and it doesn't convince me.

Maybe changing the preamp will solve my problem?

Please help!
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Edited October 4, 2016 by FMartinez

[fretmeister]

There are many preamps with passive options. Some have a passive tone control and some don't.

The East ones do, and I think the Sadowsky ones do. There must be others. The Sandberg basses have that too but I'm not sure what preamp is in them.

[ikay]

This may help, see schematic part way down the page - [url="https://www.talkbass.com/threads/fender-jazz-deluxe-push-pull-preamp-bypass.217603/"]https://www.talkbass.com/threads/fender-jazz-deluxe-push-pull-preamp-bypass.217603/[/url]

[JTUK]

I swapped out my Fender pre to get a passive option...I believe the newer ones have it, but older ones like I had don't...??

Anyway, I was never convinced by the Fender pre...I regard it as agricultural, so I had a glock put in and that is a big step up in quality.

However this was for a Jazz config, but I assume you have a jazz pickup so this would be the way to go, IMO.

[markstuk]

The Glock in my z3 also does passive...