les Paul 1995 standard pickup recommendation

[leolyonsofficial]

I'm looking to replace the stock paf pickups.

I want a John Sykes, Neal schon, Gary Moore, randy Rhodes, def lep 80s style sound!

Thanx 

[Telerocker]

Sounds like Cold Sweats. The question is: is your LP a bright or a dark one, or good balanced?

[leolyonsofficial]

Just worried the sweats wil be too shrill  and won't handle cleans if required!

Its the slide it in/1987 tone I'm looking for.

Nice chorused cleans will be a bonus!

[Telerocker]

Cold Sweats = John Sykes-tone. But ok, Mules will deliver most of the tones, if you have a good amp and a booster.

[leolyonsofficial]

Clean boost, mid boost or treble boost?

I have a German 6L6 amp which is pretty close to boogie sounding

Thanx

[ericsabbath]

the cold sweat cleans up pretty nicely

a rebel yell or holy diver should be just as fine

[Dave Sloven]

I have a Cold Sweat set and it does pretty nice cleans, even with the volume on full.  Roll it back a little if you need to.  The neck pickup has especially nice cleans.

[Telerocker]

Clean boost, mid boost or treble boost?

I have a German 6L6 amp which is pretty close to boogie sounding

Thanx

I would use a midboost or something like a tubescreamer.

[leolyonsofficial]

Is the mule an all rounder to the les Paul like the Irish tours are to the strat?

After all I'm sure Sykes recorded with a custom les Paul aka full mahogany with no maple cap.

So a mule with a mid boost pedal (ts) into a boogie style amp will get me there?

Or do I specifically need cold sweats?

I'd like something that can also pull off the modern AOR sound like TOTO, BOSTON etc

Maybe I'm looking for an all rounder?! Confused now 

[Dave Sloven]

Sykes used to use Dirty Fingers, at least in Tygers of Pan-Tang and Thin Lizzy.

[Telerocker]

The Mule is certainly an allrounder, yet a classic 59PAF-style pickup, so with a low output, and therefore dynamic, clear and refined, but the Mule won't hit your input like say a Diver. What kind of amp you have (Framus, Engl, H&K?).

[leolyonsofficial]

Palmer FAT 50

An all rounder of an amp with a boogie type tone, eminence governor speaker. Focused on classic rock.

http://www.palmer-germany.com/mi/en/Products/FAT-Series/FAT-50-Tube-Guitar-Combo-50-W-PFAT50.htm

[ericsabbath]

Is the mule an all rounder to the les Paul like the Irish tours are to the strat?

After all I'm sure Sykes recorded with a custom les Paul aka full mahogany with no maple cap.

So a mule with a mid boost pedal (ts) into a boogie style amp will get me there?

Or do I specifically need cold sweats?

I'd like something that can also pull off the modern AOR sound like TOTO, BOSTON etc

Maybe I'm looking for an all rounder?! Confused now 

wrong info about his les paul
he had a post-75 norlin era les paul custom, which actually means 3 piece maple top, pancake mahogany body and a 3 piece maple neck with ebony boards
so it's a naturally middy and spanky sound, and not some darkish smooth voiced guitar
I don't think the cold sweat sounds like him, despite of the name
it has a much sharper, more articulate and a lot less compressed sound
for the Sykes classic tones, I'd get a miracle man or ceramic nailbomb
perhaps a painkiller

but a rebel yell or holy diver should deliver more versatility and better cleans
I don't think you're looking for vintage low output models

[Telerocker]

If it's a bright LP like Eric states, you want something hotter and a little darker in the bridge, like a Diver or even a Crawler.

[leolyonsofficial]

So what would be the ideal neck bridge combo?

Would this tackle a modern aor sound also or am I asking too much?!