Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates Review

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Seymour duncan pearly gates review.

There s only ever going to be one pearly gates the legendary 59 les paul made immortal by zz top s billy gibbons. The seymour duncan pearly gates is designed to be like a standard p a f pickup but with that little bit of extra mojo as requested by the rev. Seymour duncan pearly gates d c resistance. We should begin with a humble history literature of the gibson company.

4c shielded featuring the essence of the pickups used in the original billy gibbons 1959 les paul the pearly gates pickups of sd deliver high end focused sounding. But the wizards at seymour duncan have cloned the pickups. 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. Seymour duncan pearly gates pickups.

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. I purchased this pickup used several years ago to install in my main ax at the time a 1985 tokai flying v. All in all the pickups of seymour duncan should work with a variety of styles. Gibson even used them on their pearly gates replica but will adding a set to your les paul clone make you.

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