How does the kiwi sound?
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Ah, dude! It is amazing.
The passive pups are hot! Hotter than the Aguilar DCBs on the Mayones, which surprised the hell out of me.
The Cutlass puts out huge, warm, woody P tones, but with an added punch, like a Ray.
With the tone knob open, the mids and highs are clear and meaty, with the lows round but crisp. With the tone at 50%, classic Precision-ness happens. With the tone at 0%, the tone is all dark chocolate.
Demos of the Cutlass tones:
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Maybe Iāll install my Delanos (big pole P) in my 60s P this weekend. You inspire me
Great that you love it. Awesome. Wundebar. Sugoi
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Do it! You might dig it.
Big pole pups have their own sound, for sure. The Sandberg I had briefly had big pole pups and it sounded great.
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My plan was to put a pair of Fender PV 63s in my FGN, I have one but it managed itās way onto the Squier. Need to move that and get a second one.
Now to solve my strings dilemma. What to put on the Warmoth when it gets here
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Always the conundrum. 
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Iāve got vintage down on the Squier 50s, so Iām thinking brighten up the sound a bit.
I have stainless steel rounds coming for the Frankenstream
Should I get a bright flat like a Roto monel or chrome rounds
My head hurts
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Thatās easy: Get both and A-B āem. Takes a minute, but itās hours of fun!
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Thatās nice! 
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My kids bought me my bass and it turns out it was the floor model at GC. I was a newb and didnāt know any better so I took the entire B2B course with it as it came from the store.
Then one day I was reading through this forum and there was a thread about the things your experienced self would like to have told your beginning self. Since I was a beginning self, I figured there might be some nuggets of info there. The one thing that kept coming up was that you should make sure your bass was properly setup. I didnāt even know what that meant until I read that thread.
So I went on the internet and educated myselft and decided that maybe my action was a little high. I took it to the local guitar shop and asked them to setup my bass for a sort of average action. When I got it back, I couldnāt believe the difference. The action was way lower than it had been.
I discovered that it paid to have taken Joshās entire course with the action set too high because Iād learning to play with the bass set to be much more difficult than it had to be. Now I could go back and play the lessons where the fast workout killed me before and rip right through them.
I finally decided the action was now too low as the sound had gotten really ātwangyā. I tightened the truss rod a little and set the saddles a little higher and now I have the beautiful deep, round tones back while still the action is lower than what I started with.
Thereās not stopping me now (except I have to work so I can pay the mortgage).
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The FGN has SD SPB-3s now, right? 
Whatās wrong with them?
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Theyāre fine pickups, but Iām not sure theyāre my cup of tea. The SPB-4s have better clarity, a little more warmth, ands stronger mids. Dimarzio Model Ps have a lot more clarity and presence, and are hotter. Fender PV 63s have more warmth.
Quarter Pounders are not my bag. At least, the split pickups.
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If you feel like selling them, gimme a shout. Maybe we can wheel and deal.
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Would I get kopeks or shekels??
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For ? Chicken nuggets 
Seriously though, PM me if you are interested and have a price in mind.
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Iāll let you know when I take them out. Need me some nugs
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These are my favorites that I found after listening to a lot. Love mine.
Just something awesome about ceramic pickups on bass. Really brings in the harmonics to give you really nice midrange.
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I have a model P that came out of the Dark Queen.
How do they sound with 250k pots? Without opening the FGN pretty sure itās 250k pots and a .047uF cap, not Dimarzio spec
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They would sound fine.
.047uF is pretty standard.
250k pots will sound darker than 500k as they will bleed more high end to ground. This is where the Model Pās strong midrange will actually help you.
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In a moment of weakness, I went and put a set of Stringjoy chromes on the 51pā¦and it sounds really good now. Something was lacking before, and now it has clarity, it has low end punch, mids, highs, for a really simple bass it has a lot going for it.
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