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03-04-2013, 08:18 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Layton, UT | | | Classic 50's P Pickup?
I have a couple year old Classic which also has Lollar JJs. I wonder if it would benefit from a Lollar P PUP. What PUPs are in there and are most people happy with them? I mainly use the neck J PUP since it brings more beef.
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03-05-2013, 11:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: NYC | | | I have a 50's Classic P bass that I bought in 2008. Since its MIM, I thought that at some point I would need to change the pickup. I've grown to love it and I don't think I'd benefit from switching it out. In fact, call me crazy but I prefer it to the Nordstrand NP5 pickup that I have in my new Valenti. Whatever pickup Fender was/is using for that model is the classic P sound IMHO. I have 2 year old LaBella flats on it and it just works.
Hope this was helpful
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03-06-2013, 07:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Layton, UT | | | I appreciate the input, I have found the tone a little vanilla. The jpj is wearing GHS P flats and the Lollar J neck is used 90% of the time as it really thumps. I use the P PUP for growl but it sounds a little (not a lot) thin to me. Maybe it is the contrast with the Lollar which is closer to the neck then normal?
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P5, 5/1, SKB 3005, CS '59 NOS P, Fender JPJ
CMD 102P + 102HF, LMII + TC 115 Composite
Xwire, Tonebone, TU2, Compressore, VV volume, Pedaltrain
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03-06-2013, 01:52 PM
| | | | Is there a volume difference? The louder pickup will almost always sound better if you're doing a direct comparison. I didn't like the weaker J in my P/J until I started comparing them at equal volumes.
In a thread here on something like "pickup for the the classic/vintage P-bass sound" the Duncan SPB-1 and the Fender '62 Original got a lot of votes.
I've got a Wilde P-46 that I'm happy with, but I'm just a newb and have no idea if it's a "vintage" sound.
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03-06-2013, 02:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Layton, UT | | | I don't have a good rig at home and at band 1 tomorrow it is strictly a 5er (I leave one there). I'll see what my Pignose Hog will tell me though.
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P5, 5/1, SKB 3005, CS '59 NOS P, Fender JPJ
CMD 102P + 102HF, LMII + TC 115 Composite
Xwire, Tonebone, TU2, Compressore, VV volume, Pedaltrain
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03-06-2013, 10:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | The MIM Classic 50's come with an American Standard pup in them. I think it sounds great in mine. |
03-09-2013, 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Thumper  I appreciate the input, I have found the tone a little vanilla. The jpj is wearing GHS P flats and the Lollar J neck is used 90% of the time as it really thumps. I use the P PUP for growl but it sounds a little (not a lot) thin to me. Maybe it is the contrast with the Lollar which is closer to the neck then normal? | I'd love to hear what a bass like yours would sound like with the only difference being that the neck pickup is a single coil P pickup!
All 3 of the classic Fender pickup styles on one bass!
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