Hello everyone.
My younger brother has been playing bass in a post-punk band for a while now, and has been using a fretless Fender Jazz and a Squier Pete Wentz P Bass live with them for the duration. Lately, he's been playing the Wentz more and more, saying he digs the cut and twang that the duncan designed p-bass pickup and single pot give him over the more mellow fretless sound he's getting from the Jazz. With that in mind, he bought a Squier Jaguar bass for a great price. It's basically a long scale PJ with an offset body. Upon arrival, we polished the frets, cleaned everything up, and put on new Ernie Ball strings. It sounded somewhat muffled and dull, so we decided to swap the battery. At this point, the battery cable broke, so we decided to bypass the active bass boost and we added an old Duncan Designed J pickup. This *really* opened up the sound of the bass. The "blanket over the speakers" tone was gone from both pickups. He's played a few shows with it, and likes the tone coming from the bridge pickup, but has said that he misses some of the treble and pop he gets from the Wentz and the Duncan Designed PB105 pickup that came in it.
I know that some of that clarity comes from only having one 500k pot in the circuit, but is there a P bass pickup out there that is on the brighter side of things?
My younger brother has been playing bass in a post-punk band for a while now, and has been using a fretless Fender Jazz and a Squier Pete Wentz P Bass live with them for the duration. Lately, he's been playing the Wentz more and more, saying he digs the cut and twang that the duncan designed p-bass pickup and single pot give him over the more mellow fretless sound he's getting from the Jazz. With that in mind, he bought a Squier Jaguar bass for a great price. It's basically a long scale PJ with an offset body. Upon arrival, we polished the frets, cleaned everything up, and put on new Ernie Ball strings. It sounded somewhat muffled and dull, so we decided to swap the battery. At this point, the battery cable broke, so we decided to bypass the active bass boost and we added an old Duncan Designed J pickup. This *really* opened up the sound of the bass. The "blanket over the speakers" tone was gone from both pickups. He's played a few shows with it, and likes the tone coming from the bridge pickup, but has said that he misses some of the treble and pop he gets from the Wentz and the Duncan Designed PB105 pickup that came in it.
I know that some of that clarity comes from only having one 500k pot in the circuit, but is there a P bass pickup out there that is on the brighter side of things?
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