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@mcnach thanks for the tip, good idea. I'm just waiting and hoping that the lads at Parcelforce haven't snapped this in half, and that it reaches me as nature intended. Fingers crossed. 👍

Cheers dude, just a shame we didn't have more time to chat. It's a hell of a bass! 👍👍

@AndyTravis it's a Stanford acoustic I bought used from a guy in Portugal - in fact a (snappily named) Stanford Robot. A damn good acoustic bass, the best I've ever played and sounds about as good as an acoustic bass can sound in my view. That trusty snarling beast of a Geddy Lee Jazz was purchased from @LewisK1975

Here's my concise lineup - just the two:

Once again I am super grateful for the knowledge imparted here. As a result of people's input on this I am feeling pretty hopeful about the DiMarzio PJs going into the bass without any problems. I haven't yet received the bass in question, it's still slowly making its way to me. At the moment I have absolutely no idea when I'll be able to get the pickups fitted to this Ibanez TR200, as there are no guitar shops open to do the work. I'll send an update with photos to let you know the outcome of this...eventually 😁

Cold As Ice by M.O.P. I'm not crazy about the song - a pretty unremarkable shouty hip hop track from the early 2000s but that bassline is pretty wild.

Awesomely helpful! Thanks so much. Damn I love Basschat!

Big thanks for all the responses. Whilst having a look on the internet for some information on this I found a post on TalkBass where a guy discusses how he had an active Peavey Randy Jackson signature bass that he had taken into his guitar tech to have the stock pickups replaced with a passive PJ set and his tech had told him it couldn't be done as the pickups already in the bass were active. A lot of the responses were 'all bass pickups are passive'. That's what got me thinking. @linear EMG do a set of active PJ pickups but I notice there is a lot more in the set than just the pickups: https://www.emgpickups.com/pjset.html Once I get the bass I think I'll just run the test as @ikay suggests and see if there is a strong signal. I only want to upgrade the pickups with the ones I already have if possible, I don't want to put a new preamp in, I bought this as a back up bass and am factoring in the import taxes into the overall cost so was just planning on changing the tuners and pickups. Many thanks for all the excellent and useful responses. I'll let you know what the outcome is when the bass arrives. Cheers, Ed

Hi all, I hope everyone is managing to keep healthy and sane during this bizarre lockdown situation. I have a used Ibanez TR200 bass from the mid 1990s on order which has PJ pickups, and the bass is active. Here's the thing: I have a set of DiMarzio DP126 passive P J pickups (my favourites), which I would like to use to replace the stock pickups in the Ibanez when it (hopefully) arrives; however I am unsure if these can go into an active bass. From what I can gather most active basses have passive pickups running into an active preamp but there are some examples of active basses with active pickups. My question is how do you tell if the existing pickups in the bass are active or indeed if passive pickups will work with the bass? Apologies if this is a totally dumbass question but I'm really not that up on technical side of bass hardware. Any help or advice would be most appreciated. Cheers!

Thanks for the super swift reply. I should have thought to look in my junk folder as all the email notifications are in there! I've put Basschat on a non-junk email address list so hopefully that will solve the problem. All the best, Ed

Hi, I've got a problem which I'm not sure how to resolve: since Basschat upgraded the site (when everyone lost their avatars), I have not been receiving notifications by email that I have been messaged. I have checked this and my notifications are still set for me to be notified by email when I am PMed or someone replies or reacts to content I post but I am not receiving email notifications. I used to though. Any ideas on how to sort this out? Many thanks, Ed

I sold a fretless bass book & DVD set to Aidan, easy to deal with, swift payment and a great guy. Highly recommended Basschatter. Thanks dude!