Fender cowpoke upgrade

[AdamR]

Looking for ideas on upgrading the electronics on a Fender cowpoke active P/J bass

The budget is $300 for a new pre amp and a set of pick ups, I like hot pick ups, and was looking at the Bassline Hot P/J set and the Bassline quarter pounders. For pre amps I was looking as t the Aguilar wo ever the bass uses 2 stacked pots so Im not sure if that will work.

My other thought was just loosing the pre amp all together and wire it passive with a stacked volume tone knob and a master tone using a TBX pot?

any suggestions, I know very little about electronics so Im not sure if these parts even work together.

[acebase62]

I have Seymour Duncan SPB-1 and STK-J2 in a PJ with Fender TBX tone and 2 500k volume pots. It is wired VVT and I get a great variety of tones.

I used to have the SPB-2 in the bass, which gave a slightly hotter thicker tone (than the SPB-1). I found the tone descriptions on the Duncan site to be pretty accurate.

[4Mal]

If it were mine, it would be passive, Volume, Volume. I would load with an Alnico III and slight overwind P, Alnico V standard wind J from Vintage Vibe. You get nice & wooly P bass and a crisp punchy J to balance it with. My Dirnt custom is setup that way and it's dang, cool. The bridge pickup in my custom is in the 51 style form and it is wound side by side for humbucking but still single coil tone. It is electrically the same as. Side by Side J, but the look makes sense to me on the Dirnt style body... Still, it is at it's heart a PJ. Cool in it's own way... Like the Cow Poke which in by far the best Fender to have originated in Mexico! Great bass!