Looking for new pickups

[lo_hairy_lee]

Hi!
I am having great difficulty choosing a new pick up for my epiphone les paul. Currently, to get something approximating the sound im after, i have the crunch setting turn on, on the clean channel of my marshall 100hdfx, and run that through the overdrive setting on my zoom 707 (you can probably tell why i am starting to upgrade my equipment) with the gain turned all the way up (on the pedal, thats is). It gets quite a nice sharp sound without any of the fuzziness that puts me off seymour duncans.
 
I was looking at either an emg 85 or and 81 for the bridge pick up, as i dont really use the neck pick up so that doesn't need replacing i don't think, but now im thinking of either the rebel yell or the holy diver after hearing the samples.
 
Here's the type of music i play
 
www.myspace.com/maycombuk
 
ts got some pretty heavy palm muted bits in places, as well as some ringing out bits, and ive heard that emgs aren't great for the ringing out so much?
 
Also, i tend to try and avoid distortion so much, as i said before i dont really enjoy fuzzy sounds, i much prefer a clean crunchy sound (hence the crunch with the overdrive pedal)
 
Any help you can offer would be fantastic
 
Cheers
 
Mark

[Simon D]

I reckon your best bet from the BKPs you mention might be the Rebel Yell - I have a Holy Diver set in a PRS SE Singlecut (same woods and construction as the LP), and having listened to your band, I think they might be a bit over the top for what you're after (perfect for modern heavy rock though!).

It might even be worth looking at something a little less powerful again - Black Dogs or Mules perhaps - My LP has a Mule set, and they sound fabulous.

It's also worth mentioning that as far as EMGs go, you might run into some problems if you only replaced the bridge, because you'd be running one active pickup and one passive, which I'm not sure if it's possible to do. Anyway, best of luck, hope this helped.

[machine_of_god]

Yea, what Simon said  ;)