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It's down to your personal flavour of paf
I just put a set of mojos low wind pafs in a current build and they are fantastic to me and clear as a bell, pretty close to perfect for my taste
(formerly customkits)
They didn't even use the same type of magnets, it was just whatever Gibson could source the cheapest.
So pearly gates is trying to replicate the specific pickup that gibbons has but could sound quite different to a random other PAF.
Also your guitar will sound different to another, the hardware makes a difference, overall lots of small things make it sound the way it does
(formerly customkits)
http://www.wizz-pickups.net
All the good quality ones are wound pretty much the same way with the same materials, you'd be better off figuring which magnet type suit you and your guitar best, that's probably the biggest variable.
Rift Amplification
Brackley, Northamptonshire
www.riftamps.co.uk
The montys and mojos sounds slightly different to me and that's in the same guitar with all the same parts but the montys didn't balance in the middle as well and i didnt like the neck pickup as much
Mojos new covers on his pafs are bloody superb replicas, he has them custom made now, they're better than dmc now
(formerly customkits)
I shall report to the hair shirt department immediately, if not sooner.
Antiquities in a 1950s Gibson Les Paul - with the original wiring intact - sound very close indeed to me. They are within the range that people expect from real PAFs.
So........ if the OP owns a 1950s Gibson Les Paul, that needs pickups right now, Antiquities are a very good bet.
But how many people are going to try that?
If the OP doesn't own a Gibson humbucker guitar from that era, then I would want to understand the question that he is asking. The sound we are discussing is a combination of the guitar and the pickups. If you have seen the Vintage Bench Test (1960 GIbson Les Paul) in the current Guitar Magazine, you may have noticed the following:
"All the 1950s and very early 1960s Gibson solidbodies that we've played sound intriguing when played unplugged and this instrument is no exception."
"This is easily one of the finest electric guitars we’ve ever played."
"We suspect that it would take months or even years to truly get to know this guitar, and it’s difficult to imagine a more inspiring musical instrument."
As p90fool has said, the best pickup match for the guitar owned by the OP depends on the guitar, and the OP's tastes.
Of the OX4s that I have tried, the good ones were exceptionally good but the others not so much.
When it came down to the tone that I was searching for and how I wanted the pickup to respond, the Monty's won.
Rift Amplification
Brackley, Northamptonshire
www.riftamps.co.uk
Greco Dry-Z
Peter Florence Voodoo
Bare Knuckle stormy Monday
Mojo
Ive tried lots, but certainly not all.
Out of all the ones I've tried, these are my personal favourites, but as others have said, the differences are subtle and the guitar makes all the difference, a pair of any of the above won't turn an Epiphone in to a '57 LP