The Steve Harris pickups sounds better for playing Geezer, and the Geezer pickup sounds better for playing Steve Harris.

this is the best pickup demo that I have ever seen. keep up the great content.

I put Geezer's on my Mexican Fender P and the sound is awesome. I love them.

Geezers sound much more "open". Perfect for a P-bass with rounds!

They sound both great 👍 just different 😃 I need two basses, thanks for the useful video

I had the EMG GZR PJ set in my fender performer precision. They were good but just found them lacking in the low end. Swapped them for the Seymour Duncan SPB-3'S. Looking to get a second performer precision and put the SPB-4 and a SJB-2 in. Fantastic demo Oliver, thanks alot for these!

Useful comparison, it really gives an idea of the differences. Grande!

I own a bass that I put the EMG GZR P in, and I do like the pickup but I am kinda liking the slightly fatter (with subdued treble) of the Harris pickup on this demo. I play with a bit of overdrive and I think the SPB-4 would lend itself to that nicely.

Great comparison vid bro . I saw your vid where you did a shootout with stock pickups in your customized fender P with S.D. Steve Harris pickups . I liked the brightness and cut of the stock pickups . However I know you wanted the fatter sound of the S.D. magnets . I really like how compared Geezer and Harris on this vid . Easily the most influential bassist in Heavy Metal . Lemmy and Cliff not withstanding. Also for my needs I would choose the emg pickups out of these 2 . Just a personal preference . The notes have more clarity in my humble opinion between the 2

Awesome comparasion, I was expecting something like this on youtube

I'm sold 100% on the EMGs after this.

I watched your videos and decided to go with the GZR EMG Split coil with kick ass bridge and damn! That thing is HOT ROAST BEEF now! Make my Jackson bass with humbucker sound like little girl crying! Thanks for the demos!

I preferred the Steve Harris pick ups 👍

I liked the Geezer pickup through the Harris settings the best.

Excellent technique. Tones are both amazing too

The Iron Maiden tunes just sounds better on the Duncan’s than the EMG’s. Might as well go out and buy two P Basses to play each band separately 😅

Geezer pickup is perfect for rounds and the Harris pickup is good for flats. I thought that the Harris pickup had way too much treble but it seems that you are using rounds.

I have decided to go with the Billy Sheehan Pickups from Dimarzio.

They are both great pickups, it really comes down to the style of music you’re going to play over one pickup being better than the other. With quality hardware like that you’re really curtailing the hardware to the style of music. Both of them sounded great in their own right but I wouldn’t use them for all styles of music.

I don't necessarily think one is better than the other. It's a matter of personal taste and what tone you're going for the most. I have GZR's on two of my Fender basses (one P-bass and one PJ) and both perfect for my style of play, tone, pick or fingers, the type of strings, amp, pedals, etc. I have SD Quarter Pounds on two other Fender basses (both PJ's) and they sound amazing too. At some point I will try the SH pups but I have no doubt that they'll sound great on whatever I put them on.

I love the EMG GZR Geezer Butler pickups so much that I put them in both of my Fender P basses.

Love the EMG Geezer P, what I have installed in my main bass. So much clearer and defined than the SPB-4 which in comparison sounded somewhat muffled and blanketed in my opinion. The Geezer also have a nice amount of snap and bite that I love. Possibly the best P pickup out there, and then it is also absolutely dead quiet, even when installed in a bass that has not been properly shielded,thanks to it being internally shielded. Must admit I love the DiMarzio Model P too, but that's for if you want a fatter, more aggressive and punchy tone, the Geezer however still wins in clarity, definition, articulation, snap and bite, and also the Model P is also much more noisy in comparison to the Geezer.

GZR with rounds and some distortion are God like!

an EMG P pickup simply cannot be beat

The GZR 👍

I have Seymour Duncans in my Peavey Foundation S P/J bass, but after seeing this, I may want to switch them to Geezers.

I like the Emg. This particular sd , in the recordings i have heard on KZfaq, didn't really do it for me. One thing i like about the emg gzr is the top end clarity, and how well it works with overdrive. Spb4 just... i dunno, i think it would sound better for rnb than metal, it doesn't clang the way I'd like it to in this example here.

Black Sabbath Geezer Butler is the world best Bass Guitarist in the world.

Hey really loves the video! I have one question: with the geezer pickups, can you also play with a more warm tone (r&b, funkier basslines), and have that classic pbass tone, with not much gain? Or any other sort of pedals and all that. Because most of the video it had that classic metal tone, so I was just wondering. Thanks!

Geezers sounds more open. I aquiered a p bass that had the Steve Harris in it. This demo shows me all the fuss about the EMG GZR.

Great comp video! Have you tried these pickups with more down tuned songs? Like I would love to hear how these would hold up for a song like “Into the Void” or doom metal.

Nice video. Both amazing pickups.

I prefer the GZR

Hi. Do you think that the Steve Harris SPB 4 with Flats can get a more overdrive sound ? Thanks

Part of me wonders, how would they compare with some old school flatwounds (Think, LaBella 1954)?

Thanks good comparison

I like both player but for MR I prefer the GZB EMG’s. Thank you for this comparison, it was great.

Buongiorno e buona domenica Thank for the video , you know i am a huge fan of "Harry" and Steve Harris is a fan of geezer !!

no comparison both guys have thier own sound and geezer has that low snappy sound and harris has the sharp snappy which works for their style both souns excellent!

I freaking love the tone of the GZR here! I currently use the Duncans SPB3 and really want to change them out just to change things up since I have rocked them for over 10 years now. Been really keen on the GZR P but also on the Dimarzio Model P. Do you like the Dimarzio or the GZR better for nice P Bass Punk tone played with a pick?

GZR PJ

Rounds or flats

I’d like to hear the geezer pup with flats and with a flanger or chorus..they both sound good for playing rock though the geezer one is definitely more punchy 👍🏻

GZR easily

I think I like the Harris SPB-2 better in these sound samples anyway. It has a more subdued attack without being bland ,closer to a more vintage or traditional Precision tone. The Geezer seemed to stray a bit from traditional P tone. They sound a little over the top. Or like they’re doing their own thing and straying from the norm, which is ok too, if you like that.

Excellent video 🤟🎸👏👏

EMG GZR

☹️ I went out and bought the GZR pickups, but they sounded nothing like Geezer's tone! Reluctantly, I read the manual, only to discover that having the pickups attached to an actual bass guitar was a prerequisite to achieving the desired sound. The news only got worse, as I was told I'd need an amplifier, along with something called "skill"... That last one requires things known as "lessons" and "practice", whatever the hell THAT means!!🥱 👌🤡👍 So I decided to adopt a musical genre that requires NONE of ^those things! That was my ticket to success! It's how I became the famous rapper known as "Eminem"! 🤑

Time to get a Steven Harris set and play it only with a pick

The EMG GZR pickups sound more Iron Maiden-y.

Im conflicted i was all for the EMG but the Duncan sounds better .. my question is can both these passive pickups be heard over a treble guitar with active EMG and drums.

I prefer the geezer They seem to have more articulation in the sound

Are these pickups ACTUALLY the pickups used by these artists?

Iron Maiden Steve Harris is the world best master Bass Guitarist in the world.

Shouldn’t you have flatwounds on your bass for this kind of test? :)

I have to give it to the Duncan’s

Emg

Your pick ups look pretty flat. IDK why I was always under the assumption that they need to be angled. I'm gonna flatten mine out and see what happens

Anche a me capita di avere richiami per violazioni, però alla fine non bisogna fare niente. L'unica cosa è che non si possono monetizzare i video.

Or just get a Lollar P pickup

*The Steve Harris model only sounds like Steve Harris if they're used with monel flatwounds... With roundwounds, they're WAY too bright and clangy...*

Achei o captador da emg bem melhor q o da saymour ducan

Steve Better

neither one sounds worth the money unless you have extremely cheap pickups in the bass you have now.

Steve harris , é fraco. Tem milhões de baixistas bem.melhores que ele