Hi guys.
As many of you already seen i've recently finished my bass build and what interesting about it is that i used the onboard preamp in guitar/bass for the first time.
Before this build i never understood why are so many knobs in most of good basses and why bass players need them and guitar players does not.
So when choosing electronics for Rhino bass i was looking for best pickups (so i choodes Nordstrand DC). Then i explored several forums and found that these pickups combination with Aguilar OBP is the best. It have 3-band equalizer, 400/800 Hz mid frequency swithc, active/passive switch, volume and blend controls.
What can i say? I now fully understand why so many high class basses (like Alembic) have so much controls. The sound changes drastically when you use EQ, you can make almost any sound you want from bass - it can be warm, sharp, round, bright. There is no noise. After active mode the passive one looks poor. Of course i understand that you can use passive bass and external preamps with equalizers but this is another story.
So what's the question? If the bass preamps work so well and used in so many high-class products why can't we see anything like this in guitars?
Do any of you have experince of using built in preamps with EQ in guitars?