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[quote name='Pow_22' post='1360703' date='Sep 3 2011, 09:24 AM']Ive been after some pups for my latest P bass project and have been offered this set. The pups have come out of a 2008 USA p bass. Would these then be the same as the Fender Originals you can buy for circa £60?[/quote]
No, the Fender Originals are the pups in the 57 & 62 Reissue. But the pups from a 2008 will be nice.

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Hmmmm, im a bit stuck what to do here. My original choice was going to be a Wizard THumper. Then i considered the Fender Originals, just because of the genuine old school p bass thump. However, this USA set have been offered cheap (circa £30) but im not sure how good the new stuff is? Say in comparison to what the MIM's come loaded with how would the USA's perform?

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In my opinion, the US pickups are better. I remember seeing a thread on here about the outputs of various Fender pickups, and the MIM was about 4.5, compared to the US 10.5.

Now what that all means soundwise I couldn`t say, but my US Precisions have a much fuller sound that my MIM did. The MIM had more "in your face twang", whereas the US is much more balanced. This I also find with the other bassist in my band, whose bass is MIM. His is a twangy Precision, mine is a thuddy Precision.

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[quote name='Lozz196' post='1362780' date='Sep 5 2011, 12:42 PM']In my opinion, the US pickups are better. I remember seeing a thread on here about the outputs of various Fender pickups, and the MIM was about 4.5, compared to the US 10.5.

Now what that all means soundwise I couldn`t say, but my US Precisions have a much fuller sound that my MIM did. The MIM had more "in your face twang", whereas the US is much more balanced. This I also find with the other bassist in my band, whose bass is MIM. His is a twangy Precision, mine is a thuddy Precision.[/quote]

Might be to do with other things. But I found my MIM was more twangy with an Original Fender pup than it was with the stock MIM with the tone rolled on - quite a bark, even with flats. Different beast with the tone rolled off (to the point of being unusable in a band setting). More bottom and more top. Great pups they are.

Stock MIM was darker. I quite liked it. Output was less though.

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