Seymour Duncan SH-PG1 Pearly Gates Pickup BlackNeck
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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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- Good quality (3)
- Improves sound (3)
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Most Liked Positive Review
Re-birth !!
What can I tell you? These pups gave my '88 Les Paul Custom new life! I've been playin' this guitar almost exclusively for over 20 years, and in the last six months, ...Read complete review
What can I tell you? These pups gave my '88 Les Paul Custom new life! I've been playin' this guitar almost exclusively for over 20 years, and in the last six months, the pups began to turn microphonic. I was so bummed because of all my guitars, (14 in all), this is really my "go to" guitar. I read ton of reviews, and testimonials, and talked with a LOT of friends on the circuit, listened to how Billy Gibbons, Warren Haynes, and Dicky Betts sounded, and got the "Pearly Gates". Awesome sounding set! Through my Cornfords, Marshalls, Hiwatt, and Dr. Z'... flawless... NICE smooth breakup, great sustain, punchy and articulate. I highly recommend a pair of these pups.
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uh, okay...
Well, I would like to start by saying that Seymour Duncan puts a lot of care and quality into their pickups. But this pickup in particular just doesn't do it for me, at least...Read complete review
Well, I would like to start by saying that Seymour Duncan puts a lot of care and quality into their pickups. But this pickup in particular just doesn't do it for me, at least for the price. Sure, it picks up a lot of harmonics, but I don't really feel any sensitivity to playing dynamics at all. It just seems like a very one-dimesional sound(sorry, Seymour!). It just seems that the tone is focused just on getting those high harmonics and nothing else, seeming to me very tonally sterile, just a lot of fuzz and high end. Then again, that's just me. Check the stuff out for yourself, it's really the only way you'll ever know.
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- Balance
- Bite
- Good Quality
- Improves Sound
- Tone
Cons
Best Uses
- Rock
Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-PG1 Pearly Gates Pickup:
This is the first neck pickup that I REALLY enjoy playing. It provides the perfect lead tone. Nice midrange, but not nasel. Detailed and crisp but never shrill. This is THE bride pickup. I've tried many, but this one is a keeper.
Pros
- Functional
- Good Quality
- Improves Sound
Cons
Best Uses
- Concerts
- Practicing
Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-PG1 Pearly Gates Pickup:
I have an Ibanez ARZ 800, love the guitar, but I hated the pickups that were in it. EMG's 80/61 active pickups. The were good, but not very versatile. I bought the Pearly Gates for the bridge position, and bought the Sh 59 custom and wow such a huge difference! I love to play jazz, but I also love to play metal, having these two pickups allowed me to do this. The balance of tones are just perfect on this, its very bright, warm, and can even be a bit on the trebly side.
Pros
- Easy To Use
- Functional
- Good Quality
- Improves Sound
Cons
Best Uses
- Backup
- Concerts
- Practicing
Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-PG1 Pearly Gates Pickup:
I put these in a 1994 Les Paul Studio and I must say these are the best pickups I've ever used. Playing clean they are smooth as glass! They also sound great distorted and everywhere in-between! Very versatile, and great sounding pickup.
Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-PG1 Pearly Gates Pickup:
Great quality and fair variety of tones. Sounds very good straight up or split (in a Spalted Maple Tele)
Great range of tones, but mainly gritty, edgier sounds are accented wellwith this p/u.
No issues yet, 4 years in still look and sound brand new.
Not cheap, but very good at what its supposed to do/sound like.
Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-PG1 Pearly Gates Pickup:
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!
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.
Again, Duncan builds a solid, quality product. No issues here.
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.
Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-PG1 Pearly Gates Pickup:
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.
Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-PG1 Pearly Gates Pickup:
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.
Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-PG1 Pearly Gates Pickup:
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.
Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-PG1 Pearly Gates Pickup:
What can I tell you? These pups gave my '88 Les Paul Custom new life! I've been playin' this guitar almost exclusively for over 20 years, and in the last six months, the pups began to turn microphonic. I was so bummed because of all my guitars, (14 in all), this is really my "go to" guitar. I read ton of reviews, and testimonials, and talked with a LOT of friends on the circuit, listened to how Billy Gibbons, Warren Haynes, and Dicky Betts sounded, and got the "Pearly Gates". Awesome sounding set! Through my Cornfords, Marshalls, Hiwatt, and Dr. Z'... flawless... NICE smooth breakup, great sustain, punchy and articulate. I highly recommend a pair of these pups.
Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-PG1 Pearly Gates Pickup:
This pup is a tad more expensive for a reason. Its worth the money! Truly the most versatile pick-up Ive used. I dropped one of these in my American strat with the 2 single coil tex-mex pups already in it and boy what a lethal combo of sound. It handles the heavy stuff just as well as the clean
