Re: Pickups in a ibanez gax 70 gio
welcome to the forum!!!
combining a livewire and a pearly gates probably isnt the best idea since the livewire is active and the pg is passive. if you are looking for a good set with similar tones, try a sh6b distortion bridge with the pearly gates neck. youll still get a great crunchy hot tone from the bridge but you wont have to worry about having a battery and the impedance issues that mixing passives and actives cause.
on that guitar it would be possible to mix the livewire and the pg since they have seperate controls but i think youre better off sticking with one or the other. a distortion/pg combo will be a HUGE improvement over the stock powersound crap that comes stock. i used to have a gax70 and with a good set of pups it can be a very cool guitar.