Something with both active and passive pickups would be beneficial, especially since many active basses have a HUGE range of output available and will clip the input of some pedals (like my Spectors with bass/treble turned all the way up which is how I run them).
I'd say look for something...
I've always been more rhythm focused since I wanted to be James Hetfield back in the day, but I've embraced playing leads where I can and where my abilities allow me to. But I'm more Jerry Cantrell than Yngwie, that's for sure.
I gotta get over to this fortress at some point.
Actually had a gig last night, and my rig of the day was a new to me MW Dual Recto through a guitarist in the other band's Mesa vertical 2x12 (which I now need one too bbecause it sounded great).
I sometimes miss mine.. and can't believe I sold it for $850 like... 8 or 9 years ago. Definitely remember it being on the darker side and I wasn't big on boosting at the time, but they do the recto thing well. Does he have the footswitch too?