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6 minutes ago, hooky_lowdown said:

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So the APB-1 has a fixed pre-amp in the pick up and works with a passive tone knob as per any other passive P bass. You have no control over any other aspect - it is not an ‘active’ preamp where by you have 2-3 band EQ etc.

The original APB-1 has a fixed pre-amp which had 3 settings that you flicked a switch on the pick up to select and again worked with a passive tone knob. The majority of people mainly used 1 setting so they fixed the newer generation ones as this.

Pick up ‘x’ which is passive is wound a specific way for more Mids, treble etc. Whatever and works with a passive tone knob.

How are those 2 different practically speaking aside from one needs a battery to work?

If you are talking about a pick up with an additional onboard active pre amp to sculpt the sound vs a passive pick up then yes - you don’t compare and that is not what I said to compare.

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My HW One is pretty much as Fender made it with the honourable exception of the pickguard which is cheap replacement item sprayed matt black for added stealth (apart from band sticker).  I recorded some samples of it to compare with my '66 P and it did very nicely so Greasebucket is fine too.

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