Excited about swapping pickups!

[tallulahsdaddy]

I have a Peavey B-Ninety I bought used on the cheap a few years ago. It's got a really nice neck, and the active pickups were fine to my taste, although I prefer passive pickups. Well, the P pickup gave up the ghost, and though I like the sound of the bridge pickup soloed, I have also heard good things about the EMG Geezer Butler pickups. They've been out of stock everywhere I've checked, but a store on Amazon had a P/J set in stock so I just ordered them! I know they come with the pots and wires, supposed to be easy to drop them in. I'm hoping the shafts of the pots are long enough, as my bass doesn't have a pickguard. Anyone have experience putting this set into basses without a pickguard? Any advice gladly welcomed!

 

[NoiseNinja]

The shafts on the pots will be plenty long enough, but you need to be aware that these got non split, non knurled, solid shafts, so your current knobs might not fit on them, depending.

Also if your bass utilizes a barrel type output jack socket you can't use the regular one these pickups come with, and you might need to solder, though when I first installed the pickups I was able to just clean the taps on my barrel type jack socket for old solder and then squeeze the solderless output connectors that these pickups come with down over them, nice tight and perfectly secure.

Otherwise these pickups are really pleasantly easy and trouble free to install.

And yes, the Geezer P sounds no short of amazing.

Kind of a classic vintage P tone, but with a bit hotter output and slightly more aggressiveness added, a bit more punchy, snappy and bity than your typical vintage pickup, but with a beautifully clear, well articulated, tone, with exceptional definition, and very dynamically responsive.

And then they are also absolutely dead quiet, even without a bridge ground connection or a properly shielded bass, as these pickups are internally shielded, the wiring as well, with the ground wire going all along the insulated hot wire as a braided shield around it.

 

[tallulahsdaddy]

The shafts on the pots will be plenty long enough, but you need to be aware that these got non split, non knurled, solid shafts, so your current knobs might not fit on them, depending.

Also if your bass utilizes a barrel type output jack socket you can't use the regular one these pickups come with, and you might need to solder, though when I first installed the pickups I was able to just clean the taps on my barrel type jack socket for old solder and then squeeze the solderless jack plug connectors that these pickups come with down over them, nice tight and perfectly secure.

Otherwise these pickups are really pleasantly easy and trouble free to install.

And yes, the Geezer P sounds no short of amazing.

Kind of a classic vintage P tone, though with a bit more output and slightly more aggressiveness added, a bit more punchy, snappy and bity than your typical vintage pickup, but with a beautifully clear, well articulated, tone, with exceptional definition, and very dynamically responsive.

Awesome, good to know! I think the knobs on there will fit, they get tightened on with a small allen wrench. I don't have a soldering iron, but if I end up needing one it'll be a good excuse to get one. I'm pretty amateur when it comes to repair, esp. electronics. I'm eager to learn though, and it seems like this'll be a good starter project for me. I'm gonna start yanking the old stuff out now! Okay, maybe not yanking, but gently removing...