Sorry not trying to be an A-hole. I guess I was just under the assumption that it is general knowledge. Especially if you just take a glance at the pickups and electronics forum, kinda explains itself. By the way BASSING CHARLIE, as far as changing them out, there are different kinds of pickups you will need to watch out for. Yours being a standard I am sure is passive, you need to look for this when selecting pups or you will have to add a preamp as well. Frankly at this point in your adventure, I would suggest keeping it passive, whole lot less to mess with, especially when wiring. The other, of course is active which uses a 9 volt battery to power the pickup's EQ, or the knobs if you will. Of course different pickups produce different sounds so do some research before you settle on a brand. Trying to install a different style of pickups is USUALLY a huge project and an even bigger headache. In my opinion, if you ever get a different bass, go for soapbar style pickups. It's really an all in one design, some use p style magnet bars to recreate P bass, plus Jazz bass single coils, which are usually part of a dual coil soap with a coil switch giving all kinds of versatility. You can get ANY kind of pickup in the form of a soapbar. Superior in my mind. As far as your P goes, it seems most people lean towards Seymour Duncan 1/4 pounders, EMG's are really bright for a P sound, usually better suits J's. I really don't go outside these brands other than in house stuff like my Ibanez DFR - Dynamic Full Range pickup. Also, a lot of newbies don't know about them, but Peizo pickups. Peizo pickups are what you find in an acoustic - electric, they use a crystal that produces sound depending on pressure on the crystal. They put these in the bridge, and I am not positive but I believe they make a Peizo bridge for just about any instrument, which most are the same bridge design within the same company like Fender, most the bridges are the same, they use different ones for low range basses, intermediate, and your high dollar basses, but I think all Fenders are covered for Peizos. However, you may have to add a preamp to make this work making the bass active. But like my Ibanez EDA, the magnetic soapbar pickup is passive, just adding an active preamp which means if you hook up the pickup directly to the output jack, it will still work. ACTIVE pickups, always gotta have a battery. Just some things to look for. Again, sorry for being an A-hole, we were all there at one point, SOME OF US STILL ARE.
Do a search on the threads, and you'll come up with Alot of info on this.
