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Old 06-01-2013, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Nick Foster View Post
Personally, I like active for the tone control. It's also good to know that the bass can function in passive mode. For some reason I was under the impression that the active/passive switch was only to be engaged if your battery dies during a performance and switching over to passive was just a temporary solution. Learn something new every day.
Intentionally, yes, the By-Pass was meant for emergency originally being that the bass was designed to be used with active controls but there is no problem using it in passive mode 100% of the time.
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