DiMarzio DP420 Virtual Solo - "Extremely fat and powerful single"
The DiMarzio Virtual Solo is probably my absolute favorite single coil that DiMarzio offers. It’s basically a combination of the Virtual vintage Solo and Virtual Vintage Solo Pro that DiMarzio used …
DiMarzio DP402 Virtual Vintage Blues - "Fat but with some nice overtones"
The DiMarzio Virtual Vintage Blues is a single coil that’s meant to be thicker than most single soils. Why they gave it the blues name instead of the jazz name, I’m not sure. Either way, even thoug…
DiMarzio DP228 Crunch Lab - "Adjusted D-Sonic"
The DiMarzio Crunch Lab is a new signature pickup that John Petrucci helped create. It’s basically an evolution of the D-Sonic that he started using in the bridge position. This pickup features adj…
DiMarzio DP227 LiquiFire - "Reincarnated Air Norton"
The DiMarzio LiquiFire is a new signature pickup that John Petrucci helped create. It’s basically an evolution of his Ernie Ball signature neck pickup, which was an evolution of the Air Norton. Thi…
DiMarzio DP224 AT-1 Andy Timmons - "More modern and fat PAF"
The DiMarzio AT-1 is the signature pickup that Andy Timmons and DiMarzio came up with for his Ibanez guitars. It’s basically a revision of the PAFs that DiMarzio is famous for. It features slugs on…
DiMarzio DP222 D Activator-X Bridge - "More modern X2N"
The DiMarzio D Activator-X Bridge is kinda like a reinvention of the well known X2N but quite a bi tmore versatile. This pickup has the two huge blades that the original X2N had, four conductor wiri…
DiMarzio DP221 D Activator-X Neck - "Mix between an X2N an D-Activator"
The DiMarzio D Activator-X is kinda like a reinvention of the well known X2N but quite a bi tmore versatile. This pickup has the two huge blades that the original X2N had, four conductor wiring and …
DiMarzio DP220 D Activator Bridge - "Passive sounding active"
The DiMarzio D Activator Bridge pickup is DiMarzio’s attempt at creating an active sounding pickup using passive techniques. It’s a very powerful pickup with individual adjustable pole pieces, four …
DiMarzio DP219 D Activator Neck - "Passive sounding active"
The DiMarzio D Activator Neck is DiMarzio’s attempt to replicate an active sounding neck pickup while remaining passive. It’s a very hot neck pickup with four conductor wiring, adjustable pole piece…
DiMarzio DP218 Super Distortion S - "Single coil sized Super Dist."
The DiMarzio Super Distortion S is exactly what the name implies – it’s a single coil sized version of the original Super Distortion. It features blade rails that so many other DiMarzio single coil …
DiMarzio DP217 HS-4 - "Revised HS-3"
The YJM is now called the HS-4 since Yngwie left DiMarzio to go to Seymour Duncan. Basically, this is the revision of the HS-3 that Yngwie used for quite awhile in his career. It features an Alnico…
DiMarzio DP216 Mo' Joe - "Revised FRED"
Joe Satriani was looking to revise his FRED that he used throughout most of his career. The Mo’ Joe is what came out of his quest to find a new bridge pickup tone. It’s hotter and has a better EQ c…
DiMarzio DP215 Evo 2 Bridge - "The Better Evolution"
The DiMarzio Evo 2 is the Evo that most people like. This pickup fixed most of the problems that everyone had with the original Evo. Where as the original Evo was extremely tight, bright, hot and h…
DiMarzio DP224 AT-1 Andy Timmons - " High-quality mic, fairly close to a Breed being hotter"
translated1 month ago mounted on my Ibanez AT200, it is up to what I expected, but still beautiful harmonic hot. I have one guitar on other Breed (closest) and a tone zone (harder)
DiMarzio DP228 Crunch Lab - " Surly, precise powerful a must!"
translatedAfter many changes on my guitar pickups, seymour including SH4, and very good Prs hfs, and emg 81, I must say that I finally found the microphone I was looking for! I play progressive metal, so I ne…