Ultra boutique P bass pickups

you could add alleva coppolos to your list too

 

sound clips may or not be helpful. ive heard pickup makers post clips of their stuff installed in total piece of poopie basses and its made me not want to try their stuff.

 

I have owned two sets of Novak P's now, one set gone in a bass I sold, another set (PB-90) I've kept because I love them so much.

Curtis is a great guy to work with and will wind pickups to any "tone" you're looking for, just suggest a sound you're going for when you order them.

 

I just installed a set of JBE (Barden) pickups in my Matt Freeman P Bass. Amazing sound. You can buy direct from their website or from Musiciansfriend.com. Frank (JBE president) is very responsive if you email him.

 

I would really like to hear a Charlie Cristian P-pup. On the site, there are options to click to hear the pickups, but it goes to a YouTube page with a bunch of guitar samples and no bass samples, at least for me.

 

They are higher output and more modern/hifi sounding; however I can also get good P bass thump. I currently am using Fender nickel strings and a .033 capacitor.
My MIJ fretless P has Fender pickups and sounds more like how you'd imagine a traditional P bass would sound.
I have JBEs on my bass vi, Ric and jazzmaster and Nordstrands on my jazz basses and Sterling. So that gives you some context of the sound I like.
Here's a link to a demo video that JBE posted to YouTube.

 

Yes sir I won't use any other pup than that one in my P's it has the thump I love along with some edge to it so you can cover a wide range of sounds from Punk to Motown and everything Curtis does is top notch so there is zero worry about receiving your pups on time.

 

Posting soundclips would be tacky. They aren't of much use, anyway. You won't know what a pickup sounds like until you have it in your rig and play it with your fingers.

 

The link is lame. I had to search but eventually found the clip of a James McMurtry gig live in europe with Ian McClagen (?) on keys.
Bass sound is buttah. Big deep tone, even and clear. No mud. No idea of the signal chain involved but according to Curtis the pickup was the PBCC- Charlie Christian.

 

Laurent, voici mon commentaire d'un pickup « 1959 Precision » de Klein Pickups:-

Review: Klein Pickups hand wound Precision/Jazz (P/J) bass pickups pair​

Soon I will post a review of a P/J pair of Flying Mojo pickups, which are even more "ultra boutique" than Klein.

 

Joe Barden's

 

Oh, and I missed your interest in Bullock pickups. Of the several Bullock pickups I acquired recently, one is a P pickup: custom "1962 reissue" alnico 5 Precision Bass pickup, underwound, no potting.

I have not installed it yet, but when I do and review it, I will let you know.

 

and this is my beef with clips and such; a pro payer on a pro gig through a pro system like you're gonna see a national act like mcmurtry use, you could shove a stock squier P into the guy's hands and i bet he would make it sound just as good.