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Post subject: Seymour Duncan quarter pounders
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:59 pm
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i have a 2005 Highway one p bass
but i was thinking of putting in 1/4 pounders
for a more punchy sound

any one have any experience with them


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Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 2:53 pm
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I have three Precisions ('51 RI single-coil, 2 split-coils) and I installed QPs on each of them. Great pickups, very punchy. They retain the Precision personality. I use them with Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Flats.

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Well I disagree to some extent. The SCPB3 Quarter-Pounder I have has WAY more upper mids than the stock PUP on the 51 reissue. Way more sensitivity too. A great pickup but it is almost from another planet than the original. I love it anyway! It is on my number 1 favorite player. The Quarter-Pounder is probably the number 1 upgrade on a second generation bass too. I really don't see how you could not try it, but to compare it to the original P-bass sound is underselling it.


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Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:52 am
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I believe the QP retains the personality, as I said. It sure doesn't make it sound like anything else.

One other thing: I have a Classic '50s and a recent Standard FSR with a fretless neck, and I couldn't figure out why they sounded so much different (same pickup and strings). I discovered that the Classic '50s uses a .1 microFarad cap instead of the .05 in the other models, so I changed out the one in the fretless. Now it's much closer in sound.

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Yes the 0.10 would be twice as dark as a 0.05.


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Yes the 0.10 would be twice as dark as a 0.05.


"Twice?" Define that for me. :mrgreen:

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On a sunny day you put on one pair of sunglasses. That is 0.05. You then put on another identical pair over the first pair which would be twice as dark, representing 0.1.

Like that analogy the 0.1 cap will block way more highs. I tried one on a 54 P-bass for about two days. Had to put the 0.05 back in. The tone control did basically NOTHING with the 0.1 in it. No highs at all.

I'm sort of surprised they would put that dark a cap in there. It must have a very bright sounding pickup in the first place.


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Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:37 pm
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So it's 2.12765957446 X darker than an .047 cap? That should be easy enough to distinguish.

Ah...science brought to bass tone!

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So it's 2.12765957446 X darker than an .047 cap? That should be easy enough to distinguish.

Ah...science brought to bass tone!


Better bass through math? Glad you found a use for your TI Scientific!

Actually I consider the 0.047 and the 0.05 to be essentially the same thing due to the tolerance factor of 5 to 10 %.


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Post subject: Re: Seymour Duncan quarter pounders
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:21 pm
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[quote="taylorhill623"]i have a 2005 Highway one p bass
but i was thinking of putting in 1/4 pounders
for a more punchy sound

hi,i have a precision highway,is very good! but if you want change pick up ,i think that the best is scpb seymour duncan.great tone!(vintage single coil) ciao,sittin bull.


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Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 3:57 am
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Hi well I have a 2003 Highway one precision and for a year now I have SPB-3 pickups in it.
The thing I can tell you is that I´m Not half as satisfied with these pickups that I thought I´d be. I play thru my Ampeg SvT classic rig and these p-ups sound terrible man , they are way
too quiet, tone clarity sucks and you can barely hear the D and G strings when you play loud. If I could recommend you something do not get Seymour Duncan Quarter Ps. Better get a fender ˇ62 American Vintage pickups or Seymour Duncan Antiquity Pride way better tone then the SPB-3.


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