Mustaine livewires
If those are the same as the normal SD Heavy Metal livewire 18v pickups, they are basically largley toneless sonic sledgehammers :P (i had a set in a charvel).
Id take the EMG 81 over them, and the Warpig over those!
the VHII sounds nice, and it TOTALLY NAILS the van halen tone (hmm...)
the tapping bit sounds quite steve vai'ish (more than the PAF does?)
Imo the paf pros sound ok, but a bit lacking in the all round tone and punch, i mean the launch into eruption just gos 'RRRRRAWR!!" with the VHII's... the PAF is more like 'ooooh'
kinda like: i like my car, but a scooby STi is so much more... ;)