Which P pickup?

[keeponehandloose]

Im after the sound in this clip, but which pickup would get me nearest? I appreciate this could be a vintage bass but apart from that what would do the job? 

 

[KiOgon]

Any P pup will do, it's the fingers that matter 😎

[keeponehandloose]

3 minutes ago, KiOgon said:

Any P pup will do, it's the fingers that matter 😎

Are they original or re issue? 

[hooky_lowdown]

Reissue fingers?

[keeponehandloose]

12 minutes ago, hooky_lowdown said:

Reissue fingers?

Yep... 

Serious answers are also welcome 🙂

[hooky_lowdown]

1 hour ago, keeponehandloose said:

Yep... 

Serious answers are also welcome 🙂

Blimey, someone has no sense of humor. Anyway Tonerider TRP1 and nickel strings will get you the bass tone.

[keeponehandloose]

11 minutes ago, hooky_lowdown said:

Blimey, someone has no sense of humor. Anyway Tonerider TRP1 and nickel strings will get you the bass tone.

Thanks Hooky... tone is a very serious subject...

[Cat Burrito]

I always liked the Seymour Duncan Antiquity range for classic P bass tones but I agree you can get a good tone from good technique, whatever the pickup.

[dudewheresmybass]

Definitely agree technique wise. 

The best vintage p pup I’ve heard and played has been the emg gzr. 

Lovely mmmmm 😉😂

[Danuman]

I have a nice (expensive) Curtis Novak PB-V in my high(ish)-end bitsa, which sounds very good indeed... but I put a Tonerider in my MIM P that I ended up selling on a bit quicker than I had expected. I’m not sure I didn’t prefer that bass, actually.

[geoffbyrne]

Well, a few years agi I had a good copy Jazz bass (bass type not actually important here) that had the passive EMG Hz pickups.  I spent A LOT of money and bought a set of Joe Barden pups.  These promised me to reproduce the "authentic, original sound of the early Jazz pickups".  So I put them on and played.

Nobody noticed.

Nobody said "Gee, how wonderful your bass sounds now that you have spent large amounts of cash on your pickups!"  I kidded myself for a while, imagining I could hear more top, deeper bass, more complex mids, but sooner or later I realised I was probably kidding myself.

I went back to looking at the EMG Hz pups and discovered the blurb which said the would give the "authentic, original sound of the early Jazz pickups".   Yeah.

I re-installed the EMGs and - guess what - nobody noticed.

Draw your own conclusions.

 

G.