Best comparison on YT! I do not HATE the SD-QPs but that low mid from the 62’s is PURE magic.

I have to admit I like ‘62 pickups more! Something in the lower mids just appeal to me! That’s a great comparison!

Those Fender pickups sound great! More clarity, focus and they sit well in the mix.

I love both pickups but I think the winner here is your choice of songs and amazing playing 👏🏻. Great video mate 👍🏻

Best bass reviews ever on youtube! Merci beaucoup ! For me, 62's...

I would think the QPs are the way to go here. A very strong fundamental bass tone. Plus, if you ever want something close to the vintage 62, you can just roll the volume back a bit.

I prefer the fenders, at least from this video they seem to be more versatile. The SDs do sound good, but the Fenders seem to "understand" the bass better

Now that's what I call a meaningful side by side comparison! Great! Thank you very much Obrad. For me, the 62 is the clear winner.

Based on this video I'm going with Quarter pounders all day. Fatter and better clarity. Especially on lower notes is abundantly noticeable.

They both sound GREAT... The diff. Is so slight. It is mostly your PLAYING that is outstanding and maybee the Bass. Great demo. Thanks! That was so revealing.

Everything in this demo sounds amazing. Fabulous playing!

Great comparison! I recently got a Nate Mendel p-bass and have struggled with finding a tone that isn't overly dark and heavy. The tone knob only does so much. Glad to know a simple pickup swap can make the tone more classic! Thanks for your efforts and great playing!

This is a great comparison video. Thank you so much for doing it.

This is outstanding and very helpful. I really thought I was going to prefer the Seymour Duncan’s but I ended up leaning more toward the Fenders in most instances. Thanks for the video.

Fantastic playing! I have the Fender '62 and the Duncan SPB-3. I have always liked the SPB-3 but they get a lot of hate from the online bass forums etc. The Fender '62 (similar to Duncan SPB-1) is a much more neutral/natural sound so it would be easier to apply any number of EQ or other processing to but the baked in sound of the SPB-3 is exactly the right sound for my tastes and I always preferred it in this demo. Thanks for making this!

Classic on the ‘62, modern on the QP3. Matter of taste. For me, SQ3. They sound great pick, slap or fingerstyle. Gotta love the aggressive sound on them

Smooth playing. Great comparison. Great sample tracks.

Thank you so much for this demo I personally perfered the Seymour Duncan's with flatwound strings that combo sounded deeper to me as was still clear and distinguishable

I have to admit...after making alot of fender and rickenbacker bass style pickups this year, I have learned that - more is not always more. 62 pups for me. Great vid

Loved this video! Thank you. The Duncan sounds fine. The girl in the front row isn’t gonna know and nor does she care. My ears though are telling me that the Fender ‘62 pickup has the edge.

Your comparisons are the best on YT. Changing the Himas bridge for the classic one was a good idea, I never liked the look of modern bridges, at least on Fender basses. Bass sounds good with both pickups, perhaps the 62 is a bit more nuanced, but you can't go wrong either way.

I changed my pickup in Nate Mendel to the Fenders you show and now love the sound as much as the feel of the bass

Excellent review👌 Fender pups sound a bit warmer to my ears. But like them both. Like your playing.👍

I own both sets of pickups and like both sets of pickups. I used the Fender 62 pickups when I played in a surf instrumental band with flat wounds and the Quarter Pounders with round wounds in the guitar heavy garage band I was in to cut through the mix. From your comparison, I can hear the Fender pickups are a bit more "Burpy" and the Quarter Pounders are a bit more even with a wider tone spectrum. Almost like they are slightly compressed. So, I would choose either one depending on what type of music I was playing.

Wow... "Born To Be Alive" as the disco sample!

Thank you so much. I am restoring a 1978 Precision and the PU seemed a little worn to me, I bought a barely used Fender 62 second hand. It's a good choice. When you take a precision one from this era you want the unmistakable Fender sound. And I agree with the other comments regarding your groove and choice of title, perfect.

This is the perfect comparison video. You can't really judge a pickup until you can hear it in a mix with other instruments playing.

Fender should've pay you for this great comparison demo. Superb smooth playing & awesome selection of songs. Going to buy myself a Nate Mendel Pbass soon. Been looking for a good rosewood Pbass for quite some time. This MIM artist series is something else

Outstanding video! Great playing, sound quality and presentation of both pickups. I like Fender for 60s and 70s stuff and Duncan for 80's and beyond.

Really great playing! One thing I notice is the first, second and third strings when fretted are louder on the Quarter Pounders that they are on the Fender '62s. Really great comparison video. Thank you!

Very nice comparison. To me the SPB-3 is clearer, and the Fender one is warmer, more growly. I do prefer the fender one in this comparison. Thank you ;-)

I find the Seymour D punchier and easier to cut thru the mix, I guess if you want the old fender sound you coukd just eq it?, great comparison very useful thanks!

Fender all the way! 🎸

For the life of mine, I can't tell any difference. I'm just enjoying the songs and the basslines :)

Maybe it's due to the roots music I play, but when I once bought a P-Bass with QPs, I couldn't get rid of it fast enough. Fender pickup for me.

This was great well done for me the 62 pickups win To my ears the spbs sounded a bit muddy and the 62’s cut through better

Great job bro, solid clean playing to some good songs and sounds. Not over the top showy nonsense you see so much on yt.

Best ever tone comparison video on any instrument. New to bass and I’d say the ‘62 sound is more my bag. Great playing mate.

The QP is really bottom-heavy. If you're into that it's fine, but a word of warning: you can always dial in more bottom from any P bass pickup by changing your amp EQ or using the tone knob, but not every pickup is tuned to deliver good mids or high end. I prefer the vintage style pickups for this reason.

Thank you for playing bass lines that actually allow for a distinction of tone and articulation, instead of playing noisy-clattering improvised slap-lines, harmonics or tapped lines to show-off your technique. What you did was demonstrate your musicianship, which is a far more rare thing on KZfaq. In blind tests it is the case that my ears are so preconditioned by experience that I always chose and prefer the Fenders, because it seems that anything different, better or worse, is too much of a deviation from what my ears expect and want. The challengers as such are always either too much of a thing, or too little of it.

Very useful and precisely made video comparison. Although I like instruments with a more modern sound, in this particular case the Fender sounds more serious and characterful to me personally - it has enough volume especially in the mids and lows, it's more focused, and in the recording fits very precisely. The Duncan is a good alternative for experimentation, but it doesn't really differ much from the pickups that are massively put on budget Squire instruments (which also sound quite passable for the price). But still, it's all a matter of preference, so here's a good choice between one and the other world of P-bass.

One thing it would be great to hear is how the full frequency response changes when rolling off the volume a touch. The Fender PV '63 is vers this way, the better handwound late 50's even more so.

Damn! Gonna get those Fender Originals and put them in my Player Series P Bass. Thanks for the comparison.👍

Well 😅 Thanks to this video I’ve bought Fender original pickups for my main precision bass, and they are AMAZING! Exactly what I was looking for! Classic P bass!Thanks again!

Wow. Never mind the pickups. Super delicious playing. Deep pocket. Nice job! I like the Seymours better.

They both sound great, and this is a fantastic video! Did you adjust any gain/volume settings between the two sets? They sound surprisingly similar in output level!

Great demo ,the seymour duncan quarter pounders sound great but the fender 62 pickups are killer. What eq settings are you using ?

Love the SD's, I have them in my 2008 P-Bas and it's the best sounding P-Bass I have heard yet !!!! I uae D'Addario Chrome Flats on ALL of my basses !!

Dude is an excellent player, started off with Led Zep, and is on a P Bass. I've gotta give a thumbs up and subscribe! Oh yeah, and Fender all the way!

I agree the originals sound a little better on the bottom end to my geezerly ears. Thanks so much for the comparison.

Great video, well done! I prefer the original Seymour Duncans that are stock on this bass. They sound a bit 'darker' than other SD QP's ive tried in other basses, but they sound great with roundwounds in a band mix and blend together beautifully with the bass drum. It's good to have options though and I'm glad you like the pickup change. The ash body on these basses is very resonant and the neck is sublime.

I have my secrets but I decide is time to share them, I get the best from the SD QP with the TBX tone control, it clears and open up the tone brings presence and those barky mids out, I put it on my Nate Me del and my Roger waters and also with other basses that I found dark, it’s work’s amazing on jazz basses too, that’s the not so secret-weapon of choice of Duff Mckagan on his PBass

Oh wow, I was expecting the '62 to sound better to me, but I didn't expect the difference to be so huge! The '62 are just on a completely different level, so much more dynamic, lively, deeper, far better growl, more balanced! Even louder, something I really didn't expect. I had a similar experience a couple of days ago when I replaced the stock ceramic pickups of my Aria RSB Standard with a more vintage AlNiCo5 pickup from an FGN bass - it really opened up and got that growl that I wanted to get! I'm not sure if this is really caused by the magnet material or the construction, but in every comparison so far, regardless of the pickup type, I preferred AlNiCo because it tended to have richer mids and a more open top-end.

The SDs are thicker.. but a lot of that is the stuff I end up high-passing. At least for the great playlist, the fenders sit better in the mix imo. Keep in mind that fender had plenty of wire on hand and no doubt experimented with winding pickups to extremes to find the most musical configuration..

Great! Best comparison ever!!!!! I can confirm with your Yoiutube that SPB-3 on my Precision Bass in still my best partner with me! Thanks!!!!!!

Being a soul kind of guy i was expecting to favour the fender over the spb3 but in this clip it's quite the opposite. I like how the spb3 has less lows and more lower mids. The Fender sounds scooped compare to it. Great comparison

Very funny how I basically did the same mods as you besides the pickguard: put in the same new pickups, flatwounds (ancient chromes) and vintage bridge (+ the ashtray cover in my case).

Great job, so professional and helpfull. I wish we have workshops like this in Brazil.

Excellent comparison 🎶🎵🎸🇬🇧

Good video. The 62s it is! Thanks mate!

Great playing! Love this and the Original 62’s! They sound perfect in this recording! Do you happen to remember what you used for pickup height with them? They seem a bit lower than fender spec in this video but it’s hard to tell. They also seem to be set a bit flatter than spec too. Would love to use your height as a starting point for my set.

I had some of those Seymour Duncan pickups in a very old MiM P bass. I remember thinking how when I was first getting into modding my instruments I would find I loved the tone of a pickup by itself but would hate it when I was actually playing in a group. Ultimately I realized that the SPB-3 was the perfect example of a pickup that sounds cool solo, but when I got a Fender American P with the 62 custom shop pickup, I realized the vintage style pickup works so much better in the mix. Honestly most of the Fender stock pickups work just fine these days - no need to upgrade!

Yoooooo! 62’s all the way! Just bought some on a trade for my fiesta red classic vibe squier p bass! Can’t wait to swap em out!

Awesome video!! Really helpful 💪 Do the vintage bridge holes aligned with the holes of the badass bridge? Many thanx!

Great video! My compliments how well it is made. You play smooth bass and are handy with the soldering iron as well. I think the original pick-ups had a bit more oomph in the sound. Did you use for the compression hardware before the 2i2 or software as a post processing step? Thanks for this video!

In my eyes, comparison between Fender original '62 picks and Seymour Duncan antiquity II precision bass would be more historical correct, instead of using the SD SPB-3. Furthermore, great test.

My Nate Mandell has become my go to bass absolutely love it and wouldnt chance a thing, not a Foo fan just liked the spec and the neck, unfortunately i'm a man of a certain age and loved the homage to Patrick Hernandez born to be alive, great video

I'm a Jazz Bass player mostly but I do have a couple of P basses. Maybe my ears are not P bass trained, but to me the difference in tone is so small that I don't think it even matters. I am impressed by the fact that there is no string noise, rattling, squeaking in your playing. Did you use some type of filter to get it so clean? Do you have high action?

for the zip tune, that 52 p sounds perfect. but for me playing the music I play, I would prefer the quarter pounder.

The Duncan sounds thicker but the Fender sounds more musical to my ears. So I’d opt for the Fender and just roll in a a bit of dirt with a pedal if I needed the extra girth for something.

Awesome demo man, do you mind telling me what the song starting at 5:50 is called. It sounds so familiar but I just can't place it in my head.

I used a QP PJ set for one year and it was hard to tame. Too strong signal and too bassy in many situations. I prefer the '62.

How much of this is the bass itself? Best PBass I've heard in a while.

great review, for me in the mix the 62, and with bass alone the spb3, but anyway, both sound really good, good playing too 👏👏👏👏love flats

Love the Fender 62 pick up it has a tone that what the music needs

I like the 62 pup a tad better. It had a bit more mid range honk. But the QP sounds excellent too.

this is the perfect video for me today, this is the exact decision i am going through on my mim pbass cheers

Amazing comparison! What's the name of that first song? Sounds cool

Awesome comparison video, thanks! I only wish you had also played some heavier music with a pick and slight tube crunch (Ampeg-style) to see how well you can abuse these pickups for more aggressive music.

Cool! Really great upgrade to Fender Original '62 from Seymour Duncan SPB-3. Love it.

Nice video and playing. I prefer the Fender 62. I've had a couple of sets of Seymour Duncan's and didn't care for them. They sound a little too dark to me.

You make that SPB-3 sound really nice in the mix.

I had to replace some crappy pickups in an Epiphone P-Bass knockoff. I went with SD due to experience with other guitars. Demo reinforced that either choice would have worked out nicely. Nicely done! If I'd have seen this before I chose, I might still be trying to decide.

Great comparison! Don't forget to oil that fingerboard, it's dry... rosewood needs some love!

Nice playing man. Tone and definition. Hard to say which pickup is better. I quite like both.

I currently have a quarter pounder in my Fender Player P Bass but after watching this I kinda want to swap it out for an Original 62.👍

The 62’ FOR SURE. I like the growl in the mids

Fender 62's for sure. especially because I am primarily a pick player.

The 62's indeed do sound more clear in the low mids, and lows.

as always great playing

I don’t know about which pickup is better, but that’s the way Zep ought to be mixed! Bass in your face!

Both sound good but I’ll go with the Fender.

Fender sounds much better to my ears, thanks for the video 🤟

Great video, love them both, but the '62s have my vote !

Very nice playing and comparison .. difficult to judge .. I’d like a pickup with the QP punchy bass tones but with some of the mids and definition of the CS ‘62 😂 possible?

Really helpful comparison. Which pickup did you prefer playing on?

Nice to see these used in a non rock setting.

I´ ve been thinking to upgrade my mim precision pickups for a long time now and it seems that the Fender original is the way for me to go. Damn those sounded good especially with Thomastiks. Of course i dont play that well so the result probably varies for me.... a lot :P Thank you for the video, great comparison and great playing.

Gotta say I prefer the fender pickups.

Great video, great music choices, GREAT playing. And thanks for using flats. I've been wondering about this bass, and these pickups. By nature, a vintage pickup will be more midrange oriented, less highs and lows than a modern sounding pickup. But I found the QP very balanced, VERY nice low end you could feel. It's the kind of low end that you hear through the music and supports the band. That's what I want out of a Precision and flats. By comparison, and maybe just in this recording, the Fender pu was smaller, with less low end. Mostly what was left was higher mids. Some might like that, because you can hear string noise, and other sounds, but that's not really why I would choose this setup. I would love to have heard an A/B between the two bridges.