The G&L SB-2 OEM Split Pickup Is Good. Really Good.

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I recently bought an SB-2 from a fellow TB'er, and feel the need to share with the world that the 'P' pickup on that bass is just ridiculously good. Crispy, rich, full, and growly. Everyone should have one.

That is all.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

I had a plan to drop those into a really lightweight Yamaha a couple of months ago, but the truss rod on the Yamaha turned out to be wonky.
there was also a lot of concern from me as to whether those pickups would fit into a standard Precision style route

I'd have wired it in parallel to get more highs out of it, as they already have plenty of output.

They're also not crazy expensive:

Pickup - SB-2 / SB1 MFD

 

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there was also a lot of concern from me as to whether those pickups would fit into a standard Precision style route

I'd have wired it in parallel to get more highs out of it, as they already have plenty of output.

Shame it didn't work on your Yamaha. Regarding the series/parallel I have now wired it up both ways myself just to hear the difference. I left it in parallel for now as I wanted to be able to solo the bridge, but I'm realizing that's not what an SB-2 does- it needs the 'P'. That said, I didn't lose too much of the highs in series so I may go back- it gets super growly at full throttle but still clear.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

No big loss, I paid $65 for it & sold it for $40. (shame though as it was only 7-1/2 lbs)
The neck will be fine as long as no one puts overly thick diameter strings on it or tune it higher than E Standard.
but that wasn't good enough for me

 

[rojo412]

This is my favorite P pickup ever. (Pretty sure that pic was mine, too!)
It's got a really thick smoothness to it. Personally, I'm not a P bass fan, but if I were to have one, I'd put one of these back into it.

 

[sunbeast]

I love these pickups! I had built up a collection of them at one point and had 3 basses with them, but actually don't have a P with one right now- the output is so high that a few of my pedals don't get along with them so it didn't work so well going back and forth between these and Ric single-coil pickups (which are quite low output the way I use 'em). I do still have one- May be time to refresh one of my Ps! They are one of the few high-output passive pickups I've tried that don't seem to sacrifice anything in the frequency-range to the output. You can set them up to sound quite traditional, or total balls-out aggressive!