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The original custom Pearly Gates pickups were wound for the famous '59 Les Paul Standard that defined the raw, rebellious sound of Texas blues rock. Essentially a variation on the Patent Applied For sound, Seymour Duncan's Pearly Gates sound sweet, but is slightly rude, with great sustain and a bright top that make harmonics jump out of the guitar.
One year replacement warranty on all pickups.
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I ordered a pair of Pearly Gates to replace the stock ones in my Epiphone Les Paul and it's easily one of the best decisions I've ever made. Not only did the tone get a lot more full and defined, it had that little extra edge I desired while retaining the guitar's natural tone. A big reason I went for these is because I wanted 4-conductor humbuckers to do the Jimmy Page wiring. Even in single-coil mode, in series, or out of phase, the sounds from the pickups are, well, heavenly. They can handle clean tones to bluesy overdrive to face-melting metal without breaking a sweat. If you like the look of covered 'buckers (like I do), I recommend getting Gibson's neck-spaced covers for both pickups. Even for the bridge pickup, Gibson's bridge-spaced cover is too wide for the pole pieces to fit through.
I've used a Pearly Gates in the neck position of every humbucker-housed guitar I've owned in the past two years. It's the perfect warm, buttery, Texas-toast sound to compliment the ballsy, edgier sound of a raw bridge humbucker! It's smooth distortion is the flipside to it's lovely clean sound. The PG rings true to it's name, as it's heavenly in all things TONE!
Seymour Duncan's Perly Gates model is superb. It stays in the range of the Patent Applied For tone of the original humbucker, while adding a little extra. It has a bit more edge and midrange, as well as four conductor cables for doing coil-splitting. Seymour Duncan pickups are top of the line and so is their customer service.
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