EB-0 pickups

[henry norton]

I've just added a second humbucker to my Epiphone EB-0, what I thought would be an identical EB-0 pickup in the bridge position. I couldn't believe how different they were, the new pickup was so hot and dark it actually sounded more bassy and loud than the original Epi pickup in the neck position. I swapped them around in the end and the bass sounds fantastic now, but I'm wondering whether the Epiphone pickups have been de-muddied and brightened up a bit to make the bass a bit more versatile. They couldn't have been more different.