Seems overly complex for a single coil P bass.
Still looks nice
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I do not have a tone switch. I have volume, balance, highs, mids and lows. Thatās allā¦
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I agreed. Looks lovey, but waaaay to complex.
I found one in the UKā¦
Ā£2,650!!!
IIRC Xotic makes their basses in Japan at their Japan site, so this is right in line with what I would expect from a boutique small maker here. Many have price tiers around $800, $2000, and $4000.
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Yowzers.
I may have misspoken and it may be a musicman clone, but whether musicman (not the company) or 51 P, you play a single coil pup for simplicity and punch, and all of the switches seem to defeat the purpose of the pickup.
But itās a looker
A Musicman is a bass that had a single coil Strat guitar pickup. They sound cool.
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Interesting. I guess thatās the way Hadrien likes it.
My Jabbasā controls are: volume (push/pull = active/passive), blend, mids, treble/bass (stacked), and tone. And, as I mentioned, the tone knob is operational in either passive or active.
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Thatās what I was thinking, I have a Squier CV 50s P with a single coil pick up and just volume / tone. Obviously in a completely different league compared to the Xotic, but it is simple and it rocks. I really like the pink paisley finish on the Xotic and would love to have a go on it to see if all the knobs and switches are justified!
In the end having more options is never bad, IMO. See also, Alembic 
Oh thatās not true. The more complicated a system is the sooner it will fail.
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Is this a serious concern with high end basses with completely solid state preamps? 
No, but saying itās always a good thing is overstating it. My Offbeat (which has the same pickup) will never have a battery go out in the middle of a set.
And I have faith in entropy.
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Opportunities for defectā¦ Iāve spent much of my career helping people reduce the opportunity for defect!!
Iād also posit that most people twiddle knobs, find a tone they like and then leave the knobs where they are, so donāt really make full use of that optionally. I have previously posted that my Sire V7 is waaaaay to complicated for my needs, and my Dingwall is set permanently on stun (series)!
Absolutely, that and the ultimate heat death of the universe!
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I own two passive basses, but I much prefer to play my active basses.
I donāt randomly fiddle with preamp settings. I determine a tone I want for the piece(s) Iām playing on a particular bass, and I change any setting as the situation requires. No big deal. I donāt find the process either slow or confusing. YMMV
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I own four passive instruments and one active/passive. None are hard to figure out.
The most complicated one is passive, it has a five way switch where two settings are blends at 90 degrees phase shift, and the tone knob is a push/pull that engages a power transformer that acts both as a purely passive overdrive and a low-pass LR filter.
Compared to it, my active/passive bass is simple
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I am going to provisionally post this here because it is a famous signature model but damn Edwards this is borderline for me
Shape is good- colors and pickguard are a no though IMO
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Does it glow in the dark? Because that would be cool.
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That would be killer. Someone needs to do this. Not me.
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Whereās the pickup?
It looks like a piece of the jigsaw puzzle is missing
it has two soapbars