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Seymour Duncan SH-PG1 Pearly Gates Pickup  

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Seymour Duncan

Transform your electric guitar into a fire-breathing man-eater!

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.

Features

  • Vintage design
  • Super hot output
  • Raw edge
  • Great sustain

Heaven can wait. Right now it's time to get down with one of the hottest pickups ever made. Order now and watch the sparks fly!

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great sounding, true to its name

| Review By: R L | 1 month, 4 weeks ago

1 people out of 1 found this review helpful

Features:

Great range of tones, but mainly gritty, edgier sounds are accented wellwith this p/u.

Quality:

No issues yet, 4 years in still look and sound brand new.

Value:

Not cheap, but very good at what its supposed to do/sound like.

Overall:

Great quality and fair variety of tones. Sounds very good straight up or split (in a Spalted Maple Tele)

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
16+ years, semi-pro
Style of music you play:
All with soul
Where you live:
Sk, Canada

Did you find this review helpful? yes no1117806

Great pickup! Like buttah...

| Review By: Michael Carr | 4 months, 1 week ago

0 people out of 1 found this review helpful

Features:

Seymour Duncan makes great pickups.  The Pearly Gates is no exception.  Plenty of wire to reach all necessary connections, solid construction.  The wiring diagrams at seymourduncan.com are great and cover most any configuration you might want.

Quality:

Again, Duncan builds a solid, quality product.  No issues here.

Value:

In the quest for ultimate tone, how can you really put a price on perfection?  That said, the price is a great deal for sonic nirvana.

Overall:

A smooth sounding pickup that produces a rich, buttery high-gain tone and cleans up nicely as you back down the guitar's volume.  A clean amp tone will allow this pickup to sing sweetly, with full bottom, rich mids and smooth highs.  Very stylistically flexible.  Can't go wrong with a Duncan!

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
25 years
Style of music you play:
Rock, Hard Rock, Metal
Where you live:
Nashville, TN

Did you find this review helpful? yes no1106365

One Raunchy Pickup

| Review By: Unnamed User-wYXK3 | 11 months, 3 weeks ago

2 people out of 2 found this review helpful

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I have the trembucker version of this pickup in my HSS style ESP Strat. Its a really mid-rangey, snarly pickup. And I mean that in the best possible way. Its rated as moderate output (8.35k in the bridge) - this was important to me as I was pairing it with Tonerider single coil pickups. These use an Alnico 3 magent and have the sweetest clean sound I have ever heard - they are however vintage low output (5-6k). So didn't want a big resistance mismatch and the resultant loss of sound. Even so this is not a perfect match as the sound on combining the middle pickup and the PG in the bridge (position 4) results in a thin almost tele like low sound.Its also reduced output. Just thought I'd mention this.
Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
No
Musical Experience:
Hobbyist, have played in many bands over the years
Style of music you play:
Rock
Where you live:
New Delhi, India

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Extremely versatile tone monster

| Review By: Nattydread814 | 1 year, 1 month ago

0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

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I wired this pickup in the bridge of my Les Paul as a standard humbucker but it can be wired in several different configurations which is handy if you're into that idea  but it is a tone monster as it is! In the bridge it has plenty of bark with a bright twang to really cut through. For any classic humbucker sound I'm looking for, this is it.
Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
No
Musical Experience:
hobbyist
Style of music you play:
rock,metal
Where you live:
Buffalo, NY

Did you find this review helpful? yes no1005089

Want a great pup?

| Review By: Solerso68 | 1 year, 2 months ago

2 people out of 2 found this review helpful

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Let me be the first to suggest a baby weiner dog. They are so cute. As far as the electric guitar pickups go, the Seymour Duncan pearly gate is THE superlative part for a les paul. There are only two types of pickups I would  use in a Les Paul. The Gibson 490R-490T set, which are actually the closest sounding off-the-rack Humbucker, you can get to a PAF. They sound a whole lot like the Pearly Gates, but use Alnico 2 magnets, which are just so musical and sweet sounding. The other is the Pearly Gates of course, which have the same super musical, woody, midrange-forward timbre as the Gibsons but use alnico 5 magnets and are just wicked hot and scorching.  Id love to hear them in a Gibson or Heritage(or even Epiphone) semi hollow body, but these (litterally) were made  for a Les Paul. Specifically Billy Gibbons' 59 Standard-ghost build, the one hes playing if you see him live. The Pearly Gates Humbucker might even sound a little better than a Seth Lover Built PAF,at least for overdriving a tube amp.Just Gorgeous.
Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
No
Musical Experience:
a little
Style of music you play:
hard rock
Where you live:
blatimore

Did you find this review helpful? yes no901453

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