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As title suggests. I love the sound of the Pearly Gates Plus and am looking for a neck pickup to pair it with. I like my neck pickups to be clear but not mid-scooped. I play a wide variety of styles - everything from blues to pop-rock to gothic metal - and my neck pickups pretty much only get used for medium-distorted lead playing with lots of pinch harmonics in a Richie Sambora/Billy Gibbons style. I certainly don't need a 'shred' pickup, but I find many bluesier neck pickups don't respond with the kind of aggression I want either. I like things to be in the middle of the two (hence my love of the PGP).
Until now my favourite neck pickup has been the Gibson BurstBucker #2, but I think it is a little bit too weak for this guitar and of course doesn't come in parchment.
Right now, the pickups that I have easiest and cheapest access to that theoretically fit the bill are the Pearly Gates neck, Jazz neck, 59 neck and Alnico II Pro neck or bridge models. I'm in the UK so custom ordering other SDs in parchment is hard, slow and very expensive, though can be done if there's something else that would be perfect.
The obvious choice would be a normal Pearly Gates neck, but I'm a little put off by its inexplicable higher price (not an issue if it will actually give me the sound I want, of course). I've had the 59 and Jazz in other similar guitars and didn't like them (59 was far too thin; Jazz was too soft). The A2P has always struck me as a bit boring, but I was thinking perhaps using the bridge version in the neck would help give it some life and match the output of the PGP better.
Ideas?
Until now my favourite neck pickup has been the Gibson BurstBucker #2, but I think it is a little bit too weak for this guitar and of course doesn't come in parchment.
Right now, the pickups that I have easiest and cheapest access to that theoretically fit the bill are the Pearly Gates neck, Jazz neck, 59 neck and Alnico II Pro neck or bridge models. I'm in the UK so custom ordering other SDs in parchment is hard, slow and very expensive, though can be done if there's something else that would be perfect.
The obvious choice would be a normal Pearly Gates neck, but I'm a little put off by its inexplicable higher price (not an issue if it will actually give me the sound I want, of course). I've had the 59 and Jazz in other similar guitars and didn't like them (59 was far too thin; Jazz was too soft). The A2P has always struck me as a bit boring, but I was thinking perhaps using the bridge version in the neck would help give it some life and match the output of the PGP better.
Ideas?
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