pickups for mustang?

[Plaxy]

Hi
I have a mustang bass which I love the feel off, it is just right for me, as I have dinged up hands and wrist!! Is there any mods I can do with the pickups without having to alter the body etc?

[phreddy]

ill bet that if you baught a regular p bass pickups and used the oval covers they would fit. i have taken the covers off a p bass pickups and they are oval w/ rectangle covers.

[Chris Breese]

Eh, no. More like someone took a P pickup and shrunk it.

I have never heard of replacement pickups for a mustang bass. I have one myself and I am tempted to DarkStar it...

[A9X]

Rout a small bathtub under the pickguard and try other pickups. The SD Cool rails, DM Fast track1, Chopper and Protrack and the EMG FT guitar pickups all work beautifully in short scale basses. They're rail polepiece and single coil (Strat) size, so minimum routing needed. The SD and DM are humbuckers. All are very nice in this application, just depends what you like. Cheap secondhand too.

[ihateusernames]

It appears to be the same pickup as in the Bullet Bass, at least it's the same size. I'm about to install a P-Bass pickup into it for the same reasons you mentioned.

Without ordering a custom made pickup you will have to modify something to get into a different pickup.

[Whaaaapsh]

I had a Mustang for a while and found that I wasn't happy with the pickups, so I had them rewound by a pickup winder here in Seattle, Wolfe at Wolfetone.

He rewound them with the original wire type and gauge (it's black/purpleish!) and they sounded way fatter and more filled out tone-wise when he was done with them.

I think he overwound them because I did lose some top end, but imo they sounded better than when they started.