I went down the Seymour Duncan SCPB series pickup range in reverse order. The SCPB-3 Quarter Pounder was a good but a little over the top. Next I tried the SCPB-2 Hot, which is probably the best "Overall" of the bunch but it has a lot more girth and round bottom than the original pickup versions. However, having had the opportunity to play an actual 1955/56 Fender Precision Bass, and listening to Sting's bass (which has a stacked coil version), I know how those old basses were made to sound. Comfortable lows, juicy mids and highs good enough for upper register chord playing. The vintage pickups had a certain, delicious and raw, almost raggedy type of sound. The SCPB -1 Vintage model takes you there. Its got a little more boom than the Antiquity 1 pickup and looks newish enough to go in my Fender Sting Signature Mid 50s Precision bass. Nope, having one of these vintage sound pickups probably wont make your newer bass siund like a 60 year old P Bass, but its good enough to create a lot of your own good music memories.Read full review
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Simple original spec '56 p-bass w/ single coil pickup w/ original spec electronics. Sounds as an original vintage p-bass should, a great bass guitar. I have been asked to assemble 2 more early p-basses for my friends using the same components which includes the Seymour Duncan pickup.
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this pickup has a nice clear vintage tone. however, the A string pole piece is 0.060" above the flat work while the D string pole piece is 0.035" above the flatwork and the E and G poles are flush with the flatwork, making the A string much, much louder than the rest of the strings. i masked off the face of the pickup and ground the tall poles flush. this cured the uneven tone. perhaps duncan should offer "scpb-1a" with flush pole pieces
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Best vintage pickups for '51 fender tele bass.
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These give the sound an extra bump!
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