No f****ng way!!!

The fact I'm using a low budget guitar made me to want to search for a certain budget pickup to add some more color and, obviously, make it sound way better than the stock ones.

The pickups on Epiphone Les Paul Special II are 650R humbucker for the neck and 700T humbucker for the bridge. The sound of both is decent. And the neck can be muddy. I wanted to upgrade the sound and I decided to not spend more than what I gave for this guitar (which I really love and I'm very grateful for the construction).

I came up with IronGear pickups and after watching many videos on YouTube and reading reviews around the forums i said to try the Tesla Shark for the bridge, since i use mostly the bridge to play.

The sound is amazing! They have Alnico 2 magnets and the sound is more bright and creamy which is a very good combination. I don't have any issues with the output since it's medium and you can even get this punchy tone you're looking for. They work very well with aggressive sounds from an amp (like JTM45 or Silver Jubilee) and they can work so much well when playing hard rock and such. I really like them.

The price is very affordable. Maybe the shipping can be an issue but they came to me (i don't live in UK where they are shipped from) within three days, during Christmas! That says a lot.

Keep in mind to have them as much close to your strings as you can (but not so close that can affect the tuning and such) because of the mid-output Alnico II gives and all I can say is that my guitar sounds way better and i'm impressed that they come close to the original Alnico 2 from other companies.

I will definitely go with IronGear again when i'll replace the neck pickup and for future guitar upgrades!

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