Description
Some pickups chase specs. The Pearly Gates chases a specific guitar: a ’59 Les Paul Standard that helped invent Texas blues-rock. Seymour Duncan reverse-engineered that instrument’s raw, cutting attitude and packaged it into this SH-PG1N/SH-PG1B set, so you get the bridge and neck humbucker together, both wound to that same slightly-hotter-than-vintage spec.
Don’t expect polite. The Pearly Gates has a sweetness up top, but it’s the kind of sweet that bites back — harmonics leap out unprompted, sustain hangs around longer than you’d think, and the top end stays bright without turning brittle. It’s built for blues, classic rock, southern rock, jam bands, and hard rock players who want dynamics under their fingers, not a pickup that does all the work for them.
Because it leans bright, it’s an especially good match for maple and ebony fingerboards, and it translates well on hollow and semi-hollow bodies too, adding girth without muddying up. Wired with four-conductor hookup cable, so you’ve got the flexibility to split coils if your wiring setup calls for it.
- Set includes SH-PG1N (neck) and SH-PG1B (bridge), both in nickel
- Four-conductor cable on each pickup
- Commonly run as a complete neck/bridge pairing
This bundle also throws in a free set of Ernie Ball EB2225 Extra Slinky strings — nickel-plated steel wound over a hex steel core, tin-plated high-carbon steel plains, gauges .008–.038 — so your new pickups have fresh strings to sing through on day one.
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