[Sinmastah]

The pickups in the Standards are pretty sweet. They are the same I have in my G-400. So do what I did. I have a LP II and I was considering upgrading it, but just get a new guitar man. The LP II has joke tuners on it and shoddy wiring and pots. I use it for acoustics when I don't wanna run through my amp, or trying to keep the noise down. Something I am planning on doing though, is upgrading the tuners on my G-400, then putting the G-400 tuners on the LP II. Then if I get enough money for like a set of nicer pickups, then I will put my g-400 pickups in my LP II. Then you have a nice set of pickups, so if you upgrade to a Gibson, you can put the better pickups in there your Gibson, and put the Burstbuckers in the old guitar. Just a lot of switching around, but its worth it.

Edit: I was looking at the two guitars. I'm pretty sure the custom has the same pickups as the Standard, if not worse. GC advertises the custom as dual humbuckers, but goes into more detail, by classifying the Standard to have Dual Alnico's in it. Hell don't listen to me, jsut go to your local GC and test them out and ask a rep there, not they really know much.