Rammsteinbrit Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 Heres the deal, just bought a very nice Marshall head, the High input WORKS, the Low DOESNT, cant see any input problem, and i dont really have the time to take it to the repair shop... My bass (Fender Aerodyne) is a passive, so i always (on my Ashdown combo/both high and low too) just plug it into the Low input, is this the right thing to do? I always thought that the High was for Active Basses, and the Low was for Passive... [b]Am i wrong?[/b] If so, can i plug my Fender into the High input on the Marshall head, and itll sound good without it ruining it? Any advice on this subject would be GREAT Thanks Darby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 I'd assume the "high" would mean high gain, which is what you'd want for a passive bass anyway... Hi / Low / Active / passive whatever, it's just that one or the other has a resistor wired into it to stop hotter signals overdriving the preamp. I bet it'd tell you in the manual which one is which. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon1964 Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 [quote name='Rammsteinbrit' post='724301' date='Jan 25 2010, 05:27 PM']My bass (Fender Aerodyne) is a passive, so i always (on my Ashdown combo/both high and low too) just plug it into the Low input, is this the right thing to do? I always thought that the High was for Active Basses, and the Low was for Passive... [b]Am i wrong?[/b][/quote] High means "high gain", so would normally be used with a lower output bass (typically passive). In reality, assuming your bass has an input gain knob, you can generally just adjust the gain to an appropriate level whichever input you use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcrow Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 on my combo there are two inputs...passive and active...the passive has twice the gain as for the active most passive and active work ok on the passive input jack.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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