Pickups for Epiphone ES175, recommendations?

[Twaalvis]

Hello everyone,

I own an Epiphone ES175 (reissue, not the premium).
It is an awesome guitar that I love to play but the pickups just aren't 'it'.
I already own a P90 equipped jazzbox that really gives me that Scotty Moore kind of sound,
but when playing in a little rougher musical environment I want to have some historically correct humbucker PAF pickups for my ES175
that sound nice and full in the mix but not getting messy or muddy. I like to play very clean, but also use really really light overdrive on my amp.

The main music genre I play is Rockabilly and Rock and Roll from the fifties,
and I once saw this video of Jeff Beck with his ES175, which is exactly the sound I am looking for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebj4CqhS5o8

I am looking for this sound, but don't know which pickups to get.
Alnico 2 or Alnico 5?

I was thinking of maybe a set of A5 Duncan 59 pickups, or maybe a set of A2 gibson 57's.

What are your recommendations?

Cheers!

 

[chadd]

Re: Pickups for Epiphone ES175, recommendations?

Seth Lover's in a hollowbody are almost always a winner, especially if you aren't playing high gain.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Pickups for Epiphone ES175, recommendations?

Welcome to the forum!

That guitar deserves Seth Lovers, or if you want something cleaner and clearer, Antiquities.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Pickups for Epiphone ES175, recommendations?

I have a single neck P90 early 50's 175. I know you said you already have a P90 guitar, but don't rule out that sound, at least of the neck of the 175.