pickups recomendations?

[vnat]

hi,

years ago, someone gave me an epiphone by gibson bass.

the bass has a p-j configuration.

the guy owning it is a tech himself and he had made the bass into a fretless ( with wood in place of frets).

the bass had no pickups though, so we just got a pickup back then (fernandes if i remember correctly) only the j-pickup and connected it straight through, no potentiometers etc.

now i started taking lessons for some months and we getting into walking, i thought to undig that bass from the closet and do something with it. it's a fretless after all, so will be closer to the sound of a doulebass right?

which brings me to my question that:

what electrics (P-J) would you recomend for this bass so that i get a round sound as much as possible for walking bass playing???

i repeat that the bass is epiphone by gibson, with very average woods so the pickups must kind of match the price for the instrument, and should be able to have reasonable performance on a bass with average (or below average) woods.

thank you

 

[luknfur]

FWIW:

I personally don't see a relationship between given woods and the choice of pickup. As it basically says on the bart site, if the bass is acoustically bright you may choose a darker pup to balance it out depending. A bass can be bright, dark, or midrange regardless of the woods. In fact I have 3 Ibanez basses all made of Agathis, one's dark, ones midrange, and ones bright and I've put everything from Alembics, to Dark Star, to Epi T-birds in them.

Your instructor ought to be able to give you some direction, given he can hear the bass and it's properities. Make him earn his money.

 

[LoveThatBass]

I recommend Seymour Duncan APB-3 P pup and Classic Stack J Pup (Noiseless).