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recommend me a p-bass pickup

I know you're going to say search, but I know what I want! :hyper:

It's finally time for me to put some new pickups in my Precision. I've held off for a long time because I didn't just want to ask for a random recommendation and try some new pickup without not knowing what it was exactly that I didn't like about the old one.

The stock MIM pickups I have does too much in the high mids and lower highs. I like to run my eq as flat as possible and I'm cutting the 800 and 2k on my equalizer considerably to get a tone that I like. I like vintage sounding instruments, and have had good experiences with Fender Custom Shop pickups before, I have a set of 60's in my jazz right now.

I'm leaning toward Fender original 62s at the moment, but am open to the minds of TB. I'd like something with a present low end, nice and punchy mids, but not too much in the high mids, and clear highs. At the moment the pickups are just too blatty for my taste, if that makes since.
 
I just got a a seymour duncan antiquity II for mine, havent installed it yet.

If you do a search you will see that basically you have to try and hope for the best.
Loads of people are going to tell you the Fralin are the best, or the lollar, or the nordstrand NP4, or the seymour Duncan SPB 1 or the antiquity II...

I went with the SD Antiquity II cause it has a bit more low end bite that any other i heard and since i am planning on using my P bass alongside a very bass heavy Jazz (darkstared jazz) i wanted something that wasnt going to be bassless when switching from one to the other at a gig.

Read this thread, i posted a link to a page with loads of audio links that could help!

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=699970&highlight=seymour+duncan+precision