Anyone ever seen an external inline (along the 1/4” instrument cable connection) vol/tone pot sorta gizmo. Something that hangs along the cable and can be adjusted without going to an amp or pedal.
Came up today in a convo.
Can’t believe it doesn’t exist.
Just sold my Traveler bass with a piezo only and the guy was asking since the bass has zero controls.
Googled but found nada.
I’ve not seen anything like that, but why not a preamp pedal? Seems to be the same thing but just a pedal, which I know you don’t want
The guy wants something close to the bass vs. being tethered to a pedal.
Something dangly that moves with him.
@John_E , wouldn’t an inline volume control from some headphones work? Just get some 1/4" adapters for each end?
I don’t get the logic. The only way he won’t be tethered is if he goes wireless, in which case it doesn’t matter.
But this might work
Something like this
Well, since the vast majority of bases have tone/volume controls and most people playing with a guitar with no controls will be close to the amp/preamp, the market for this type of device is probably very very small. I personally wouldn’t want something like that hanging from my cable. Sadowski did make a belt clip preamp… you can put any pedal on your belt if your belt is big enough 
Yes I get this, but thinking active preamp on a passive bass with no internal mods is kinda a cool idea vs. a pedal.
I like the belt clip idea, will give it a look.
Yeah I really don’t see the market for this. It’s covered by either the ability to get an active bass or a preamp pedal.
I guess that’s why Sadowsky stopped making theirs
Maybe? Sadowsky’s always done their own thing when it comes to this too, IIRC - I think their preamps are pretty nonstandard too, would need to check.