Baselines pickups, will thry give me moer than I already have now?

[REME7178]

I found a pair a new Basslines SMB-4A alnico pickups and the STC-3M4 tone circuit that goes with at a guitar store by where I live. I own a EBMM Sting Ray, and I am contemplating installing the Basslines pickup and tone circuit. I am happy with my Sting Ray it has never given me any problems and it sounds awsome with the stock alnico pickups, I know that the stock PU's that the Sting Ray came with from the factory are really great PU's it's one of the selling points and reasons why people aquire and play EBMM Sting Ray bass guitars. I am not sure it can get any better then the way it sounds now. What I want to know is with the Basslines pickups and the electronics will it infact sound even better then it does right now with the stock pickups and electronics? I do not want to waste my time and money to getting them installed if their is no benefit to replacing the current MM PU's, or if after I get them installed I am going to be like *** and just want to rip them out. I can't find any reviews comparing the two, and the people and bass players that I talk to are mixed on their opinions, or they are super vague, or they just tell me IDK/ IDK it's really up to you (WELL NS) I know that, but I want your opinion. Most of the bass players that like the Basslines pickups Play Fenders.

By bass players I asked, I mean 4 and by people, I mean 3, but 2 of them work at the music store and sold me the PU's.

If the Basslines pickups are not as great as the EBMM pickups it's NBD because the PU's I do not use will go into an OLP that my niece plays. In your opinion what would you do, keep my current pickups's or replace with the Basslines pickups?

 

[REME7178]

Side note, how long does it take to get a response about the BOD of my EBMM bass guitars?

 

[Big Poppa]

bod?

 

[shredfactory]

born on date?

 

[bovinehost]

2 of them work at the music store and sold me the PU's

So let's toss that out of the mix.

Listen, I'm going to give you an answer then I'm going to close this and I'll tell you why in two parts.

1. You're asking for an opinion on pickups and every single person is going to hear something slightly (or even not slightly) different. And their opinion will be, obviously, influenced by what their desired tone is (which again is going to vary from person to person and sometimes day to day).

2. Bassline pickups are not a Music Man product and so we try to keep that to a minimum.

But the truth is this. Aftermarket pickups - all of them - are designed on some level to attempt to give you something you don't have already. I've been playing Music Man basses for a long time and I can't figure out what I can't do with the factory electronics. Any inability to get a given tone is my fault, not the equipment I use, trust me.

So given item 2 above, I'm going to keep the thrashing down by closing this thread and wishing you luck, whichever way you go.

If you had a MIM Fender, I'd say, "Hey, give it a shot, you can always put the originals back in."

But it's not a MIM F and so I say, "You already have the stuff that's going to sound best in that bass."

My apologies to your sales guys.

Jack