P bass pickup recommendations

[Light]

To be honest, before Light's post further up I've not heard a less than enthusiastic word said about them!

It's not that they are bad, it's just that I think the Dimarzio's are better. Which, by the way, is the complete oposite of how I feel about their guitar pickups. Either company has excellent workmanship, so in the end it is simply a matter of taste. When it comes to classic style bass pickups, I like Dimarzio's. To be frank though, other than a P-bass for Bob Babbit style stuff, I would never use either myself, being more than a bit of a fan of Bartolini bass pickups.

If you want a hot P-bass pickup, go for the Quarter-pounder. It's a fine pickup. It just isn't as "classic" sounding as the Model P.



Light

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It's not that they are bad, it's just that I think the Dimarzio's are better. Which, by the way, is the complete oposite of how I feel about their guitar pickups. Either company has excellent workmanship, so in the end it is simply a matter of taste. When it comes to classic style bass pickups, I like Dimarzio's. To be frank though, other than a P-bass for Bob Babbit style stuff, I would never use either myself, being more than a bit of a fan of Bartolini bass pickups.

If you want a hot P-bass pickup, go for the Quarter-pounder. It's a fine pickup. It just isn't as "classic" sounding as the Model P.



Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

Hmm well it turns out we weren't even disagreeing then, because I'm pretty sure one of my first comments here was that the Quarter Pound wasn't a vintage/classic P-Bass sound in that sense. Lovely!

Seymour Duncan guitar pickups seem to be a little out of fashion round my way at the moment ... seems like everyone wants Bareknuckles and Kent Armstrongs, even though I haven't heard anything that suggests either of those are particularly special, let alone in a higher league than Seymours.