Best bass guitar pickups & pickup covers according to redditors

If you're looking for that Pop-Punk bass sound I would recommend getting a P-Bass and putting in some Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound pickups. This is pretty much the go to set up for that kind of sound.

So first you'll need to decide what loop pedal to get. There's a lot out there. Ed's current one is called the "Chewie Monsta" - it's custom made out of a few Boss-RC30's I believe. He started using this on x, I think, and up through + he was using just a single RC30, so maybe that's your best bet.

The most straightforward setup I can think of would be:

Guitar -> Soundhole pickup of some sort, similar to this -> RC30

Vocal Microphone -> XLR (microphone cable) -> RC30 (which has phantom power, so that's good)

then, RC30 -> 1/4" instrument cable -> amplifier

You can definitely get amazing pickups for way cheaper than $300.

EMG Geezer Butler Signatures cost around $110

Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounds cost around $75


Rio Grande Muy Grandes cost around $150 but it seems silly to put these kind of pickups in a Squier.

Personally I'd go with the Quarter Pounds. That's about the peak of cost/benefit, and you're running these through a Squier.

1)
How can I fix the crazy neck dive on my p-bass? It's a cheap 100£ lefty.
Previous to last week it went unplayed mainly because of its poor playability. But a setup and a neck shim later, I've got the action lowered on par with that of my SR300e; low and light.

2)
If I were to replace the pickups with something like these,
am I likely to hear anything different? My amp is an Ampeg BA210-v2 (2019). Bass was a gift from my dad, which is what started me on this path of enlightenment, so cost isn't as important as not sounding pish poor.

Found it.

https://www.amazon.com/Kona-Guitars-KEJBN-4-String-Configuration/dp/B003YJAAEU

Cheap Chinese J bass copy. What did you pay for it?

I gave up on the accelerometer and got these piezo disks instead. I then flashed ESP Easy on it and had it report the piezo voltage to Home Assistant over MQTT. However, I wasn't able to find a good threshold (walking or talking in the laundry room registers about the same as the dryer running) so I pretty much abandoned the project :(

I recently got a ibanez artcore bass (http://www.ibanez.com/products/eb_detail18.php?year=2018&area_id=3&cat_id=2&series_id=57&data_id=185&color=CL01) for really cheap. the previous owner stripped the pickups and strings. so now im looking at new pickups for it but I've never changed pickups in my life (beginner). would these fender jazz pickups work (https://www.amazon.com/Fender-Custom-Shop-Jazz-Pickups/dp/B0002E3DAS/ref=as_at?creativeASIN=B0002E3DAS&linkCode=w61&imprToken=WbdKrvOvlQozzfBY86O6yw&slotNum=1&tag=guitarfcom-20)?

Yes, with some changes and a lot of noodling (I'm sure you can probably find DIY instructions for this).

The way electric guitar pickups work is the magnetic field from the pickup senses the vibration from the STEEL strings and translates it into current.

Most acoustic guitars come with some sort of bronze or non-steel alloy. The idea behind that is that bronze is more resonant, and will help minimize sound loss in an acoustic guitar, which depends on transferring as much resonance as possible from the strings to the sound board (think about church bells: they are made of bronze, not steel -same kind of thinking).

so yes, you COULD modify an acoustic guitar to accept an electric pickup, and all you would have to do is:

• Change the strings to electric guitar strings (some people think that the change in tension is bad for the acoustic, but in reality, high gauge acoustic strings have much more tension).
  
  
• Wire up a pickup (and additional tone, volume pots if you wanted) to run directly to a 1/4" plug.
  
  
• Find a way to mount the pickup (hopefully without modifying or de-valuing your guitar).
  
  Or, you could forgo the science experiment and buy something like this:
  
  http://www.amazon.com/Dean-Markely-Strings-ProMag-Grand/dp/B0002GXW5W/ref=sr_1_8/187-4993316-6758846?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1395894341&sr=1-8&keywords=pickups+for+acoustic+guitars
  

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0002KZB0W?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

You can probably find a used set in the $60 range. There's a set of used ones on Amazon right now for $58.53: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0002KZB0W/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

My band's other guitarist uses these in his blacktop jag:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007TYPYQ/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
along with
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002AKONB0/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Those mounting rings took some work to install without destroying the original pickguard, but now that he has them in there, he really goes to town dialing in some wide varying tones.

I've got a J Bass, I chose it mostly because of the two pickup versatility and the looks. Two of my favorite players Carlos D and Mikey Shoes play a jazz bass on records I liked so I went with the J. The neck also played faster in my opinion and I liked how the body sat against me. I've swapped the pickups with split coil ones because it got me closer to a P, and on top of that I couldn't deal with the hum and the pickups weren't hot enough for me. J bass has the feel and the looks, P has the sound (in my opinion).

I've played just about everything with my jazz and it works quite well, it really shines on really aggressive percussive stuff like Rage Against the Machine and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, but when I'm not playing stuff like that I really wish I had a Precision.

If you can buy the J and put P pickups in it, or buy a Blacktop Jazz Bass, that would get you the best of both worlds.

EMG Geezer Butler Signature P Bass Pickup https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J8POGWQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_a6TZzb9SHPM3Z

You can also get them for ~$40

I was not a believer until on an impulse buy I picked up the "Surfing Triple Rails" loaded pickguard for a perpetual project guitar, to my amazement they sound as good as pickups I've paid five times the price for.

If you're willing to take a chance, I strongly recommend trying them. Like I said I got the "Surfing" ones myself, which you can find here.

But I was also able to find the same pickups in a standard white or black pickguard as well.

If you do take the plunge, please let me know what you think! :)