Bass pups
Tio,
I did mod the Squier Affinity P bass with the hot GFS P bass pickups. This is a move that I regret, because for only a few more dollars I could have gotten the quarter pounders that I really wanted. Figured I'd save some money. Not so. The GFS P bass pups are better than the stock, but not by much. The Quarter Pounders would have been a big improvement.
On my red J bass I had a set of Fender Noisless J bass pickups professionally installed and it sounds great. It sounded great to begin with though, so I gained noise free pickups that have a great tone; but the tonality of the stock pickups was just as good.
I just got a mint '04 Fender MIM P bass, black, no scratches at all for 250. I put a Fender aged white pearl pickguard on it and new roundwound strings. It looks great and I need to post some pictures of it but I haven't taken them yet.
This Fender I would like to put SD Quarter Pounders in, although it sounds real good the way it is.
Having played basses with quarter pounders in them, I am anxious to put a set in one of my basses.
I will probably sell the Affinity P bass now. It is a cool bass, black with a new black pickguard and flatwounds, but it is chipped up fairly bad and scratched. Probably better off keeping it.
I would say, go for the SD Quarter Pounders.
What is it? A P or J and what mfg?
Duffy Bolduc
South Williamsport, Pa.
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