Best Seymour Duncan Pickups

[Ironderby]

i'm looking for bass pickups, probably seymour duncans (unless you can reccomend any others) for about £80 max. For a Precision bass, playing metal/classic rock/hard rock.

i was thinking:
SPB1's
SPB 3's

what are your views?

 

[randysmojo]

SPB 3's for sure. Some of my favorite Metal tones came from these PU's. You didn't have a choice in the poll for those so I picked Other.

 

[Gord_oh]

dont you mean "carrots"?

 

[ReDnEcK_SaMuRaI]

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These should have the best TONE for Metal

 

[ReDnEcK_SaMuRaI]

Everyone knows Broccoli is more METAL than Carrots!

 

[Gord_oh]

Everyone knows Broccoli is more METAL than Carrots!

more iron in your diet? iron is a metal.

 

[invalidprotocol]

its the gas you get afterwards that makes broccoli more metal

 

[ChrisCassisi]

The Lundgren P pickup is great for metal.

 

[rojo412]

The SPB-3 Quarter Pounder. It's a great pickup for aggression and power.
(I happen to be selling one, too!)

 

[Hapa]

Nordstrand NP4 best P pickup ever.

 

[4StringLoser]

Definitely the Quarter Pounders

 

[butcher]

I have a set of Dimarzio Split P pups and they are hot, aggressive and dead quiet.

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I originally had them in an older MIJ BC Rich Warlock and used to get comments about the sound from sound guys, even direct through a DI. Something about that combination worked.

I got rid of the Warlock (couldn't stand the neck dive) and now have them in a Frankenfender P with a maple jazz neck.

Also, you can get them in white which may look really cool in certain basses. Like these

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or could make this a pretty great cheap 5-er
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[M.Wrenn]

Poll lacks carrots.

Broccoli DOES NOT suffice.

 

[M.Wrenn]

Everyone knows Broccoli is more METAL than Carrots!

and everyone knows that a redneck samurai is a cultural impossibility, thus your opinion is void and we return to the realm of carrot supremacy.

 

[JGR]

I love the SD hots - the SPB-2 and SJB-2's. The STK-2's are also great pickups. The quarter pounders are the best way to KILL your tone - totally scooped and boomy - nice big hole where all the tone is. Probably the worst pickups they make.

 

[39-Bassist]

1st problem is your asking a question that is very diverse.
Each pickup is actually quite good in its own right, BUT each one also has a tone of its own and works with different neck and body woods. I use a SPB-1 with my ash body and rosewood neck and it sounds great. But with the SPB-3 it's way too boomy. I then put the SPB-3 in my maple neck , alder body and wow nice sounds.....so it just depends on what you use and your taste in music. Just my 2 cents.
I also put the SPB-3 i my PJ bass with a STK-j2b and the sounds together were punchy and smooth and worked well together.
The SPB-2 is middle of the road and not to aggressive and you need to tweek your eq for the tone you want of course.

 

[1954bassman]

I Like dimarzios
and
EMGs

 

[mcrawfordmusic]

Seymour Duncan SPB-3's. They have a lot of bite! Pretty well priced too.
Dimarzio apparently make a few good P-pickups to cater for heavier genres of music. I came across this review on youtube of a pre-wired Dimarzio pickup/pickguard set. Check it out.



MC

 

[Lambic]

Everyone knows that the Italian company Broccoli S.p.A. makes the best pick-ups for metal-oriented P-basses this side of the sun. They are very present on the veggy market as well, I'm told, especially in the carrots segment.

 

[countrybass007]

Mighty Mite