The SDs are nice, but for this build, a bit too nice and I already blew way too much on the pups for the other builds (the soapbars for the explorer bass were about $360 a pop I think, and the EMG Riptides weren't exacly cheap either). I ordered some cheap pups from china. I'm not expecting much outta them, but then I'm not expecting much outta a 13 fret bass with half the frets missing either!