Help Selecting Pickups for my SLATQH

[zappafile123]

Jackson Brains Trust I want/need your opinion on pickups

I've got this SLATQH which I've been unsuccessful in trying to sell, so I've pretty much decided to keep it. After some thought, the *only* thing I don't like about the guitar are the pickups. These EMG HETs (for me/what I want to do) are terrible - they sound thin, plasticky and fake; they're scooped to heck and sound too 'modern', too 'try hard'.

Question: Which pickups would you put in?

Sound preferences: I'm looking for a really well rounded set. I want to be able to get true classic 80s/90s shred / death metal (*cough* this guitar will stay in E), but I also focus a lot on jazz and fusion so I need warm rich cleans and clear light distortion.

I've got two main ideas for what to put in:

1. go back to stock - Seymour Duncan JBTM & TB14
2. get some original Jackson Pups like a J90C bridge, and J-50N neck

Or I could even try to find some 90s Bill Lawrence L500XLs?
FYI Body and neck are Mahogany, with thick maple cap

[DonP]

Scale length? 25.5" or 24.75"

Maybe something PAFish like DiMarzio 36th's? Most rigs these days have enough gain.

I'm running a set of Full Shreds in a 750XL, but it's a maple neck and 24.75" scale.

The 59 and JB sound great in my longer scale Sam Ash archtop, but it has a trem and possibly alder wings.

I think I have a Jazz and a Custom 5 in an AT Pro.

Quite different, I have Bill Lawrence rails in a 1995 USA RR.

On the opposite end of things, I'll be putting a set of warpigs into a Copperhead SL2H.

In the end, it's up to you to figure out what works in your rig.

[metalhobo]

PAFs can indeed play any kind of music, but it's still possible you may not like them. they have more peak-y vowel-y resonance and a more open sound high end than a high output pickup. quite the opposite of the active pickups which have a broad/flat midrange response. based on your desire for versatility I think it would be hard to go wrong with a PAF-type, but you could probably get an equivalently versatile (though different, to be sure) sound with the right high output set.

[Kisonen]

You can try Emg 57/66 set or Emg fat 55 set for starters. It is an easy swap as they use same connects.