Might have been better buying a pj bass or maybe just putting a jazz neck on your p bass and if you don't wanna put mods on it might have to be a boost pedal unless you slave your amp. When I first started learning to play on a semi acoustic didn't have an amp so the strings gotta bit of a beating with my sausage fingers and I play the same today having to turn down for quitter songs
plenty of headroom on my Ampeg PF350 into 2x10 + 1×15 so maybe not that much of an issue ,never had to crank it more than a 3rd at a gig or practice to be heard over drummer and two guitars so plenty in the tank to overcome a lower input level I think
Will get a boost pedal and see how that goes at next weeks reherals where i can try a few different scenarios (ive also got an overdrive that I can adjust the output on)
There are direct replacement Jazz pick ups available that are humbuckers, just swap them over, great if you're aiming for JJ Burnel and not Jaco Pastorius
^Thanks for posting! I've known UK Subs since the seventies.
Have met Charlie a few times mostly at other gigs ,lovely fella
Ok so issue resolved I reckon with output issue
Boost pedal turned up but wasn't digging the sound ( cheers Amazon try before you buy !) , chucked on a new set of D'Addrio EXL180's cranked the gain and now getting the output and tone I was after
