Precision P bass pickup Classic black. 8.56kOhm and 5.21 Henries.

I ordered one of these pickups a while back to put on a P-Bass kit I built with my boy during lockdown – what a difference it made! They are fantastic – outright – and highlight the vast gulf between “affordable” and “cheap”. They seems to be a pleasingly balanced, high-output pickup. Before the swap, the bass made a horrible glassy, brittle tone that didn’t change much whether the tone knob was up or down. And that’s not to mention the noise / interference. Cheap Chinese crap probably. Ugh. So the bar wasn’t high, so to speak, but the Warman pickup not only delivered, but delivered in _spades_. I wired it in with 500k pots (linear volume, audio tone) and a push-pull switch to choose between a .068uF and 0.022uF capacitors. The Warman pickup transformed the bass from something of an embarrassment that lived in a case, into a go-to instrument that’s actually playable in public / at gigs and which I now hang on the wall for easy access. Using steel rounds, I can get a fantastic range of tones from this setup. With the big cap and the tone right down, it thuds and thumps for England; with the tone up, it’s bright and crunchy. Plenty of mids / highs available for tone shaping if you want that, but plenty of lows too. Switching over to the small cap seems to brighten the treble a little more (resonant frequency shift?) which makes it almost painfully crunchy / spanky – perfect for slap. But all of that starts with the pickup: if the signal don’t go in, it don’t make a noise. And the signal is clean: you can tell it’s a quality pickup because there’s no detectable background noise, fuzz, interference. I’m here writing this review because I’m going to put another one of these on a PJ as soon as money allows. I’ll be ordering the equivalent J pickup to go with it. You should too. ��