u/Altruistic_Blood8108

For context, the guitar sounds nice, but i mostly play metal, so it gets muddy when using high gain and when playing in drop D. I listened to many pickups and the ones I have in my are the dimarzio super distortion for the bridge and the dimarzio paf pro for the neck. Id like to also have coil split on them for any time Im chasing a different tone, (the epiphone already has split coils on the stock pickups) so in total it would run me about $250 - $300. Is there anything better I could do or a better alternative?