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Anyone use/have experience with one of these? And why do they cost $120?? Why is Gibson so annoying like that?

Anyway, I've been kind of looking for a new pickup that has a good quot;hot vintagequot; rock sound, and was wondering if this fit the bill.

I don't care for the BB Pro's and I sure don't care for a $120.00 price tag...a Custom/59 set of would give you a solid PAF tone with an extra kick in the bridge.

I tell ya...my experience w/ the BB Pro's was a love hate affair for a long time...harsh biting treble frequencies...I tried fiddling with them on two different Les Pauls...and I kept getting frustrated. I could never get a a good combination of sounds..I could get a good scremaing lead and mushy nasty power chords, or gorgeous powerchords, and this shrill annoying lead sound.

Thanks to a post by Papersoul (a regular here) over on the LP forum, I tried dropping the pole pieces below flush w/ the cover and then played with the pickup height and BAM...FINALLY got some righteous tone out of them ...cleans, crunch, high gain (for me anyway)

I finally had gave up and was ready to jam a set of 59's i had laying around into the paulam but now I have no real desire to change them (even sold the 59s to a forum member here this past weekend)

BB Pros are excellent pups once ya get 'em set right. In fact I've found this the case with all recent Gibson pups. I was able to get great sounds out of my 500T/496 and my 498/490 set in the firebird sounds great too. You do have to play with them though. Perhaps most people don't experiment enough with them...I don't know.

I agree though, they (and all Gibson pups) are overpriced as an aftermarket replacement.

i dont care for the bb pros, to bright and not meaty enough. the bb 1 amp; 2 i like much better. the bb3 sounds most like what you want, a hot vintage rock sound. not super high output, but hotter than vintage. its a warmer tone than the pro's and about the same output

kinda pricey, just like most things gibson

I played a BB2 amp; 3 set in a Historic 68 Custom RI and I loved the tone, though I suspect it was mostly the guitar. For a good quot;hot vintage: rock and blues sound in a LP, there's not much out there that can beat a set of Pearly Gates.

Hey, they only cost $90 each as well.