Stock Pick Ups

[Icarus26]

Just out of curiosity, has there ever been an instance where stock pickups were better than the pickups you bought and installed? If so, share your story haha.

[Bongolation]

Originally Posted by Icarus26

Just out of curiosity, has there ever been an instance where stock pickups were better than the pickups you bought and installed? If so, share your story haha.

I don't think I've ever personally swapped out a pickup in my own equipment in my nearly five decades of playing, but a number of people I know who went to SD SCPB pickups for their '51RI & "Sting" basses went back to the original MIJ mystery pickups, which are supposed to be very close to the original '55 Fender version.

[AREA]

I once bought a Set of EMG Select Pickups to swap them into my SX Jazz Bass that I have had at this Time. I found the the Stock Pickups Way better than the "Selects".....

[JTE]

OH YES! I bought a set of DiMarzio P bass PUPs in 1977 for my '73 Precision. They were nasty, and accentuated everything that was wrong with the sound of that POS bass. I had Seymour Duncan rewind the stock PUPs (they'd died) and that helped a lot.

jte