Taste varies, but I personally can't stand active basses. There's something special about the humble passive P-bass, and there's something special about a passive J-bass too. Especially this one, which has fat sounding pickups in vintage positions that makes it sound a little darker than modern J-basses. And that has just a tiny bit of acoustic tone character added from the semi-acoustic build, while still being rigid enough to fully support a solid-sounding B-string (not true for all semi-acoustics!).
While this is now one of my most cherished instruments, and one I'll never sell, I should probably mention that it wasn't love at first try! It has a 660 mm fretboard radius, which is unusually flat, and that just didn't feel right in my hands. I sent it in to a specialist tech for PLEK treatment and had the fretboard reshaped with a smaller progressive radius, and refretted with stainless steel frets while he was at it. After that it feels perfect in my hands and plays like a dream.
Having this done wasn't a cheap procedure though, it added substantially to the cost of the instrument, but it was still well worth it IMO. But maybe the flatter fretboard radius isn't an issue to you?
Mine is stringed with Thomastik Jazz Flats, which are the best flats IMO. The combination makes it a very "vintage" sounding instrument, it has a sound that you don't need to reshape with EQ, it's already right where it needs to be. I only use both pickups and all knobs on full, every tonal nuance I need is in my fingers.
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