Respectfully, I couldn’t disagree more. I find the Heritage 3 preamp controls on my Sires logically and conveniently laid out. That said, I set the preamp where I like on my Sires and rarely touch them thereafter.
Also, you don’t have to interact with the preamp settings often, or ever, if you don’t need to.
If you don’t want to mess with your preamp at all, you can simply leave all knobs at the 0 position, or simply bypass the preamp entirely and play in passive mode.
I’ve been that guy for the past 4 years. It feels great. I only make adjustments when I need to replicate something.
The staggering of those bridge saddles does not look similar to multiscale at all, more an offset to compensate for the limited intonation range of the split saddles.
Exactly what came to my mind too.
Hell no. 
The old pink was only available with the 1000s and at least in the EU very rare.
Truth to be told, the only Shortscale left ist the 1505 DEL which is pricy due to higher numbering, five string and comes in the odd DEL colour.
I recall that we have debated the Sire preamp controls before and have to agree to disagree 
That’s fair enough. I wholeheartedly agree to disagree.
But the fact remains that active Sire basses can easily be played in passive mode. 
Indeed. But here I am talking about not liking the preamp and the controls…
I have other basses that are active, the Dingwall, the EHB, a Hohner that must be 35+ years old. I prefer the controls of these basses over the Sire.
It’s as pretty standard layout, B/T LM/UM Passive/Active and Passive tone control.
Wait till you start acquiring ones with Serie/ Parallel switch on top of that as both sounds great but when to use it, 
Worse, if you have control on all 4 Band EQ, Passive/ Active, Series/ Parallel on Each of the 3 noiseless Single coil as well as the Passive tone control. That and I’m obligated to know all of the differences after all the bass has my name on it.
I understand. Players have preferences in instrument features.
My active basses are my two Mayones Jabbas and my Sire M5 and V8. Their respective 3-band preamp controls layouts are similar, but the Sire Heritage 3 features even more granular adjustments.
Yep, I’m kind’a tempted by the Joe Dart…
I only turn my P Bass tone knob if I touch it by accident. I don’t even know what it does 
If it sounds good just leave it and mark it with nail polish.
It doesn’t do much just cuts treble.
Yep, on my P, I tend to leave the tone dialled fully off…
I usually put it in the middle, roll it all the way off, I just have to fight to be heard. Too much Sub is not so good for articulation signals unless I’m just chugging.
This^^^ 
If I had a preamp choice on a bass I would go with a 4-knob of bass/mids/treble/mids frequency.
As it stands now though I just record wide open/high noon and do everything EQ-wise in the box, so all passive works just fine for me.
I wouldn’t mind going without any as the matter of fact,
