Best single coils with Pearly Gates bridge?

[ratkent]

I have a great Lone Star Strat into which I installed an EMG DG20 set and I want to put the Pearly Gates Plus back in the bridge position but I'm not sure what single coils I should put the middle and neck. The orginal pickups are long gone and I wasn't crazy about them in the first place. It would be nice to have something that was noiseless with a fatter than vintage tone.

Any ideas

 

[Lake Placid Blues]

Re: Best single coils with Pearly Gates bridge?

Some Ideas:

The new Duncan Stack Plus. This is suppossed to give authentic SC tone, and be totally noiseless. I havn't tried these, but certianly plan to. One recent review stated that they have a touch more mids than early 60's strat pickups.

Dimarzio Virtual Vintage Blues. This is a noiseless strat pickup that is much fatter sounding than a vintage strat SC.

Bill Lawrence L280/L298. Lawrence pickups are top drawer noiseless and can be adjusted closer to the strings allowing a wide variety of tones and outputs. These normally (at normal string height) give a spot on early 60's strat sound.

Snag some Fender SCN's (Saranium colbalt magnets) take outs second hand. These have a fatter midrange than the old standard Fender Noiseless.