Growly P-Bass pickups?

[J03YW]

Hey, this holiday season I've ordered a TC Electronic BG250 amp, and to go with it I'm deciding to go with the Squier Classic Vibe 60's style P-bass. I'm trying to get that awesome Entwistle growl he had around 1970, and I think the amp's tubedrive will get me there (and please do tell me if I should get a Sansamp instead, I'm kinda reluctant to get one of those for their cost. I'd rather have a good amp), but I'll sort all that out. The main point of this thread are affordable, growly P-Bass pups. I'm looking for that throaty sound that Entwistle had, as stated before, and I'm not sure if the stock Squier pups can do that as well as some others, but if they can, please tell me. Please keep in mind that I don't have too much money, and passive ones would be preferable. Thanks!

[mjac28]

Get these you will never look back http://curtisnovak.com/pickups/pb-cc.shtml

[J03YW]

Those are well within my price range, got a vid/soundcloud?

[millsbass5]

An old-school DiMarzio P-pup. After all, that's pretty much where it all started.

[J03YW]

which model would you call "old school"? I'm new to pickups

EDIT: Lol I guess that means the Model P?

[J03YW]

Originally Posted by millsbass5

An old-school DiMarzio P-pup. After all, that's pretty much where it all started.

ok man, i think that's what i'm going with. thanks a ton!

[D.M.N.]

I find the stock pickups in my 62 AVRI to be pretty raunchy when used with Swing 66 strings and run wide open. Otherwise, I'd 2nd the Curtis Novak Charlie Christians.

[Bluedevilxx]

Put 500k pots in it lol I stuck some in my beater Squier and its super growly. Ymmv

[J03YW]

Originally Posted by Bluedevilxx

Put 500k pots in it lol I stuck some in my beater Squier and its super growly. Ymmv

thanks for the tip, i bet i have some laying around.

[jallenbass]

Originally Posted by Bluedevilxx

Put 500k pots in it lol I stuck some in my beater Squier and its super growly. Ymmv

Squiers should already have 500K pots.

[mjac28]

Originally Posted by J03YW

Those are well within my price range, got a vid/soundcloud?

I don't unfortunately but Curtis makes some of the best hand wound pickups around I have these pickups in a P and they sound fantastic you can contact Curtis for more info.

[vistacruiser]

I second the DiMarzio Model P to get you to the Live at Leeds tone, with of course, round wound strings. (a bone stock '65 P bass w/fender 7250's will totally nail that tone) And do the series/parallel switch option with the DiMarzio. Because this p/up has 4 wires (2 each side) it's easy to do the S/P mod. If you don't want to drill the 1/4 inch hole in your p/gard for the switch, get a push/pull switch pot for your tone knob. Series is how every P bass p/up set is wired together and if I had to choose I would prefer series, but you have the option to wire in a switch to allow connecting the two sides of the p/up in parallel. You get a brighter clearer sound, as if the p/up were closer to the bridge. A nice contrast to the DiMarzio's normal hot behavior. If I were doing a single p/up P bass, I would incorporate the S/P switch.

[J03YW]

Originally Posted by vistacruiser

I second the DiMarzio Model P to get you to the Live at Leeds tone, with of course, round wound strings. (a bone stock '65 P bass w/fender 7250's will totally nail that tone) And do the series/parallel switch option with the DiMarzio. Because this p/up has 4 wires (2 each side) it's easy to do the S/P mod. If you don't want to drill the 1/4 inch hole in your p/gard for the switch, get a push/pull switch pot for your tone knob. Series is how every P bass p/up set is wired together and if I had to choose I would prefer series, but you have the option to wire in a switch to allow connecting the two sides of the p/up in parallel. You get a brighter clearer sound, as if the p/up were closer to the bridge. A nice contrast to the DiMarzio's normal hot behavior. If I were doing a single p/up P bass, I would incorporate the S/P switch.

Ok, I may do that in the future.