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Thanks for all this, loads of great advice. I've just talked to the Wizard, who was very helpful and patient, even with my long winded explanation of what I wanted. He ended up recommending taking out the original P at least for now, and putting in a matched passive PJ set. Or would want to make an exact match for the existing P, which would mean sending it there to be checked out. So at a very reasonable £90 for the Wizard PJ set, and the many rave reviews they seem to get, seems like at least worth a go to me. Though any more recommendations still very welcome - I'm learning a lot here!

I've got an early 70s Precision, modified a lot over the years. 20 years ago it was routed and fitted with an active EMG jazz pickup in the bridge position. All worked fine, and I used the P pickup for an authentic sound, and dialled in the EMG for added modern honk when needed. It then was not touched for years, and picking up recently the electrics needed fixing. The local shop tech cleaned it up, but says the active and passive pickups will never work properly together, and should be either all passive or all active. I'm still slightly confused how in that case it used to work ok (the EMG fit was done by the Bass Centre), but this does seem to be sensible advice. Any thoughts? I love the sound of the original pickup, and the instrument itself has a great smooth mellow tone. I've currently got 20 year old round wounds on it (which actually sound great), but will probably experiment with La Bella-style flats. I'm playing mostly jazz, and looking for a classic smooth, thuddy walking sound, with just enough attack in the highs to solo, and just a touch of mid punch to cut through when playing fusion. So the main question is, what pickup to add? Definitely want to keep the original P, but need a recommendation for the bridge J. So far, it seems that a Seymour Duncan STK-J2B Hot Jazz Stack, SD Antiquity IIs, or Fender 62 might give me the sound I'm after. Any recommendations? Price not too much of an issue, as I want to do the instrument justice