Description
Some pickups chase vintage tone. The Pearly Gates chases the specific, glorious noise of a ’59 Les Paul Standard cranked through a Texas blues-rock rig — the kind of raw, slightly unruly sustain that made that guitar famous. Seymour Duncan built this set to capture that exact character: warm like a true vintage humbucker, but with a bit more push, a bright top end, and harmonics that practically leap off the strings on their own.
- Neck: SH-PG1N
- Bridge: SH-PG1B
- Both wound slightly hotter than vintage-spec humbuckers
- Four-conductor hookup cable for coil-splitting and series/parallel wiring options
This set covers a lot of ground stylistically — blues, classic rock, southern rock, jam band noodling, and hard rock all sit comfortably in its wheelhouse. It’s commonly installed as a matched neck-and-bridge pair, and it really shines in brighter-sounding guitars, especially those with maple or ebony fingerboards. Hollow and semi-hollow bodies take to it well too, opening up that top end without losing warmth.
This bundle also throws in a set of Ernie Ball 2223 Super Slinky strings — the same gauge (.009–.042) favored by Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and Angus Young. Nickel-plated steel wound around a hex-shaped steel core, paired with tin-plated high-carbon steel plain strings, gives you a balanced, road-tested tone right out of the pack.
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