I've been looking into the hot jazz bass pickups. would that work well with my spb3 and if not any suggestions on something that will?
Ah, in that case, since you have to route a new pickup hole anyway, I'd be tempted to get a set of SJB-3 quarter pound J pickups, route the holes for them about an inch apart, and use them as a humbucker in the bridge position. That's something I would do. Admittedly, I'm an odd bird. But bass players seem to exist in two broad categories -- traditionalists and boundary-pushers. A traditionalist would probably keep the P bass as a P bass and put a pickup in it that gets a vintage sound. You're converting a P to a PJ and you're using a P pickup most traditionalists don't like, so maybe you're up for something way outside the box. I really like unique basses. Doing that would give you a bridge pickup that could definitely keep up with a P pickup that most pickups would struggle to keep up with. It would allow a flexible single-coil tone in those situations where noise isn't an issue depending on which pickup you want to use, and in those situations where noise is a problem, you'd still have a usable bridge pickup. Plus it would look cool.
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