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Published on 03/23/11 at 17:44The DiMarzio Norton is a pickup that doesn’t get looked at that much. It’s a modern sounding PAF that’s somewhere between the DiMarzio FRED and the DiMarzio Tone Zone. It features slugs on one coil with screws on the other. It also has four conductor wiring and an Alnico 5 magnet to help bring out that more vintage-esque quality while still keeping everything nice and tight.
The Norton is a peculiar pickup. It tends to work very nicely in the bridge for those looking for a medium to high output humbucker. The low end is big and almost comparable to the Tone Zone. The midrange is grindy and powerful, again similar to the Tone Zone. The harmonics on this thing, however, are very similar to the FRED. It has a very big sound, but it’s not super high output so that it constantly clips your signal. The treble is warm, so it won’t be very piercing in the bridge. Split sounds sound pretty good, and it’s not too bad in parallel, either.
This is a very versatile bridge pickup. It can do anything from Texas blues to 80s metal. It has enough compression to where it works for the higher gain stuff, but it’s also open enough to where it can be used for the lower gain stuff. It’s almost similar to the PAF Pro in terms of versatility, but I find it actually works a little better being a good “all around” kind of pickup.
This pickup will work in pretty much any wood combination out there, but I find it works better with woods like basswood or alder. These woods help work with the pickup’s low end and make it sound a bit more alive than if it were put in, say, mahogany. This pickup has a lot of mids, so a heavy mid wood like mahogany could make it a bit too over the top.
The Norton is a peculiar pickup. It tends to work very nicely in the bridge for those looking for a medium to high output humbucker. The low end is big and almost comparable to the Tone Zone. The midrange is grindy and powerful, again similar to the Tone Zone. The harmonics on this thing, however, are very similar to the FRED. It has a very big sound, but it’s not super high output so that it constantly clips your signal. The treble is warm, so it won’t be very piercing in the bridge. Split sounds sound pretty good, and it’s not too bad in parallel, either.
This is a very versatile bridge pickup. It can do anything from Texas blues to 80s metal. It has enough compression to where it works for the higher gain stuff, but it’s also open enough to where it can be used for the lower gain stuff. It’s almost similar to the PAF Pro in terms of versatility, but I find it actually works a little better being a good “all around” kind of pickup.
This pickup will work in pretty much any wood combination out there, but I find it works better with woods like basswood or alder. These woods help work with the pickup’s low end and make it sound a bit more alive than if it were put in, say, mahogany. This pickup has a lot of mids, so a heavy mid wood like mahogany could make it a bit too over the top.