Question:
Before I spend money on Seymour Duncan Pick Ups, ( Possibly the Pearly Gates or 59 and JB ). Has anybody actually changed the stock Pickups in their Epi Les Paul for, say Seymours, and found that it makes a vast improvement to the sound of the Guitar. ( I have a Seymour Duncan 59 and Hot Rail on my Yamaha Mike Stern and they do sound good) I think the epi Pick ups sound reasonable but then I have never played a Gibson or Seymour equipped Epi!
Answer:
I replaced the pickups in an Epiphone Les Paul standard that I used to own with Gibson Dirty Fingers from a Gibson The Paul I had. They sounded awful and wooly in the Gibson but totally transformed the Epiphone into a great (to me) sounding guitar, the high gain of those particular pickups giving a nice distorted tone. I think that the brighter sounding woods of the Epi (which was not mahogany or even walnut like The Paul) offset the character of the pickups. I would recommend that you try out pickups in the guitar - some companies (SD included IIRC) will actually take them back if you don't like them and they are unmarked.
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