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Fender Classic 50's P pickup

#41
maplenecked said:
so how do they compare?
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I had the classic 50s and an Avri 63 so ill actually answer this for you.

The pv 63 is the best pbass pickup i have owned. It has strong output of 12.5k and has a ton of low mids that have a ton of richness and depth. What this means is that with flatwounds like chromes you will get an ultra warm sound with crispness that cuts without needing boosted high end. A pickup with more high end that is nice but not as warm is the geezer butler. The pv63 pickup records so well that it basically mixes itself before even being touched by eq.

The output of the classic 50s is lower. It is a nice pickup. Gets that old school headhunters vibe, but it doesnt have the same detail in the mids. It is a very solid pickup but the pv63 is fenders best offering in years and is a perfect match if you are into the pbass w/ flats combo.
 
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AngelCrusher said:
I had the classic 50s and an Avri 63 so ill actually answer this for you.

The pv 63 is the best pbass pickup i have owned. It has strong output of 12.5k and has a ton of low mids that have a ton of richness and depth. What this means is that with flatwounds like chromes you will get an ultra warm sound with crispness that cuts without needing boosted high end. A pickup with more high end that is nice but not as warm is the geezer butler. The pv63 pickup records so well that it basically mixes itself before even being touched by eq.

The output of the classic 50s is lower. It is a nice pickup. Gets that old school headhunters vibe, but it doesnt have the same detail in the mids. It is a very solid pickup but the pv63 is fenders best offering in years and is a perfect match if you are into the pbass w/ flats combo.
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And the 62?
 
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AngelCrusher said:
I had the classic 50s and an Avri 63 so ill actually answer this for you.

The pv 63 is the best pbass pickup i have owned. It has strong output of 12.5k and has a ton of low mids that have a ton of richness and depth. What this means is that with flatwounds like chromes you will get an ultra warm sound with crispness that cuts without needing boosted high end. A pickup with more high end that is nice but not as warm is the geezer butler. The pv63 pickup records so well that it basically mixes itself before even being touched by eq.

The output of the classic 50s is lower. It is a nice pickup. Gets that old school headhunters vibe, but it doesnt have the same detail in the mids. It is a very solid pickup but the pv63 is fenders best offering in years and is a perfect match if you are into the pbass w/ flats combo.
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Gianni "Orlandez" Orlati said:
Pickups may be these:

Fender Original Precision bass pickups,
#0992046000?
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Thanks for the usefull information guys.
I might give the pv63 a try later on then but right now I’m very pleased with the stock one, a very nice surprise to me. I have owned several different P-basses and right now I have 3. One original 62, one with the Lundgren vintage pu’p and one with the Augilar P60s. All great pup’s in their own right but the one in my recent P50 has less boomines and is a lot clearer and I appreciate that in a live situation where my other P-basses, all strung with flats, gets a little muddy and boomy on the lower strings whereas the P50 pup might lack some low mid but on the other hand with increased volume and different acoustics that’s often a positive thing. At least thats my opinion today ;)
Also I’m very pleasantly surprised by the craftmanship and quality feel of the instrument that I was not expecting due to earlier Mexican Fenders I’ve owned and sold.
 
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RedVee said:
And the 62?
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I have never owned a Customer Shop 62, but I have played through one,and I thought it was great. The 63 just has really strong midrange character to it that I love. I find it amazing for recording and it really captures the magic of those vintage Fender P's that every studio engineer fawns over.
 
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#54
R&B said:
I could see that. The AVRI is a case queen, while the MIM ‘50s (with Fender Pure Vintage ‘58 replaced pickup) was a player.
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I played the AVRI for a good 7 years, but I’d bought it to replace a black-maple American Standard that was stolen, and the MIM Classic is black with maple. I’d bought it in 2014, after playing the AVRI exclusively for four years. I actually felt that both basses were pretty much equal - the AVRI had a prettier finish (trans white on ash) but ultimately it wasn’t doing it for me enough to justify owning two more or less identical basses, so I sold the more valuable non-black one and paid for my kids’ Christmas with it.
 
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RumbleMan3 said:
So does anyone actually know the NAME of the pickup used in the classic/road worn 50s p bass and pre 2012 am. std. p basses?

Because I want to buy one of these pickups to put in my warmoth p bass build but don’t know what they’re called.

It’s not the pure vintage 58 is it?
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Nope. It’s the pre-2012 American Standard pickup. Someone around here will have the part number. The PV ‘58 is one for the ages. The pre-2012 AmStd OTOH is what @JimmyM calls “the worst P bass pickup ever made.” I wouldn’t go that far, but there are way better P pickups IMHO.

EDIT: It just occurred to me: the actual worst P pickup ever made is a tie between the older MIM Fender P and the DiMarzio Model P. Both ceramic magnets, both brittle and crappy-sounding as heck. (IMHO of course.)
 
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