P Pickups for Mark Hoppus bass?

[roccobladr]

I had bought a Fender Mark Hoppus bass for a great deal off a TB user a couple years ago. I am 90% sure the pups were swapped though. They are supposed to have duncan quarter pounders but these dont have the white writing on them and they really just dont sound too great.

I have some nice flats on there and not really looking for a "punk" sound, but I am in a cover band so I need something that has some good low end.

I hear mixed reviews about the quarter pounders so I am thinking maybe the spb-2?

Any mark hoppus bass users have any experience with different pickups?

any sound clips? maybe spb-2 vs spb-3?

 

[roccobladr]

hump de bump

 

[spaz21387]

fender 62s are great. same with lindy fralins, nordstrand np4s, and dimarzio model p's

 

[walterw]

are the magnets really big? like 1/4" big (hence the name quarter pounder)?

maybe under the pickup cover, if it was replaced with a regular cover, you have the bigger magnets.

anyway, for all-around cover band "sounds good for everything" pickups, look at regular vintage types, like the SPB-1. the 2 is the "hot", which might be muddy for what you need (they're darker than the 1 or the 3), especially since the hoppus pickup position is actually closer to the neck than a standard P-bass.

flats may not be the ideal strings for your purpose, unless you're in a motown/oldies cover band.