I will have to look at the guts of my two basses. Both are the same size and shape, so if the leads are long enough I could swap the neck Fatboy from my custom with the bradge AXY of the more standard bass. Either that, or I need to pick up a single neck-length AXY to try. The basses are also a year or two apart in birth, so they may not have exactly the same plugs on them.
I think I was using Chromes at the time as well, so the neck pickup was all meat and relatively little sizzle. I'll get it back into the rotation for a practice one of these days and maybe change some minds. You hear the fatboy described as more like a Series pickup and that gives the idea that it must be better, since Series is better than Signature, etc. That's not really true, it's just different, and better is in the ear of the beholder.
But we've moved away from the topic of deep sounding maple, and I apologize for that.
