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Ideas for a pickup/preamp upgrade for my SR300?

JT Foster

JT Foster

Dec 27, 2014
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O’Fallon, MO
#1
So I have a perfectly good SR300 that I play all of the time. It’s a cheaper bass, but it was my first and it’s still a quality instrument. It’s more comfortable to play songs in standard since it’s a 4 string, but sounds like trash compared to my SR506. It’s just a very low output, and very bland tone. The CAP pickups need to go.

I know Ibanez is known for being more modern and neutral in terms of tone, but I’d like it to have more grit. I KNOW I can’t get my Ibanez to sound like a Stingray, but I’d like to get as close as possible to that clanky/punchy sound as I can.

Any ideas? I’m open to anything, but it may get to the point to where replacing the hardware is so expensive that it just makes more sense to buy a new bass.
 
#2
This might be better in the pickups and electronics forum. The moderators can move it.

What are the dimensions of the pickups currently in it? What controls does it have?
 
#3
dwizum said:
This might be better in the pickups and electronics forum. The moderators can move it.

What are the dimensions of the pickups currently in it? What controls does it have?
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oops, probably why I’m not getting a lot of feedback! My bad, haven’t been on the site in a minute.

I believe they are 108x34. In terms of control setup, it has tone, pickup selector, volume, bass, and mid. Unless you’re asking about the actual preamp, which I have no idea what it is.
 

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