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Geezer uses enormous gauge DR Black Beauty strings. (Makes sense for down tuning.) If the outer wraps are stainless steel, that might explain where he gets some of the high frequency detail.
Alnico 5 rod magnet polepieces and 11k is the formula. Elderly flat wound strings complete the picture.
I toy with the idea of combining a P middle pickup with an Oil City Pickups Overkill J. Unfortunately, those pickups would be worth more than my Squier bass.
Then again you might find that every example you find has the same tone problems then you could listen to some other pickups in videos to see which get you where you want.
On the other hand, I'm with ICBM on the P only setting - if you haven't tried turning the bridge pickup all the way down (soloing the P pickup) then try that and you might get there instantly.
I put Wizard 84s in it and fitted a Badass bridge, sounded great. I'd agree with other folks regarding the usefulness of the J bridge pickup though - a good P pickup can get you all the tone you need. I certainly wouldn't go to the trouble of wiring the two pickups to individual outputs as you mentioned.
In my experience, the best way to vary your tone on bass is through right hand technique and picking position. Even on twin pickup instruments I only use one at a time - usually the neck pickup - and just moving your right hand position from the bridge up to the neck gives you huge tonal variation, much more so than on guitar. Between that and the different techniques across fingers and plectrum playing, you can find a tone for any occasion without ever touching the controls or worrying about which pickup you're on.
Seems a bit counter intuitive; I'd have thought the lowest cost basses would omit the J pickup to save even more money.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.
At the entry level, Squier has to be seen to offer the same features as rival manufacturers such as Yamaha, Cort, JHS/Encore/Vintage and Ibanez/Soundgear.
When I bought my first bass it was a jazz because I foolishly believed people on forums telling me the neck pickup sounded like a p bass.
Years later I love P (and even getting really in to MM) but still trying hard to get in to J.
39 years later I still have it & still play it. Several studio engineers & live sound engineers have commented that it`s the first active bass they ever liked the sound of. So I would go with the EMGs!
Earlier in this Discussion, I shared some of guitarfishbay's reservations about the treble response of EMG-GZR pickups. I now suspect that some of this was caused by the host instrument. (Squier VM P, agathis body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, high mass bridge.)
The same pickups sound far happier in an alder/maple J/P mongrel of my own devising.
… unless I fill the coffers of John East again!