All user reviews for the DiMarzio DP207 DropSonic

Big humbucker output level and raisin bread magnets, designed by DiMarzio for the Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson. (I'm not really a fan of LP, but the sound of guitars is not bad). In addition, as a fan of John Petrucci, I saw a pair of pictures on a forum amricain o he was seen with his musicman and a d-sonic in the bridge position. So I said we should give him a chance this microphone! The two coils of the micro diffrent are seen as little as one dlivre prcis a ct and a bit sharp (the barrette, place rack in ct low tuning) and the other gives a warmer ct for solos and normal tuning (adjustable pads), basically. By distortion, I test the two: it fulfills its rle in low tuning (all the strings I dtest moles tunings too low, I'm happy to go -1 ton) The prcis sound, even if it is not incredible to the ears, not excessively aggressive, well equilibrated. Its precision ratrappe hair using this mic on a guitar mahogany for example. Beware prjugs: IT DOES NOT SOUND LIKE THE EDGE EVO. In standart tuning, it is also giving a full, big, full bodied but also sharp enough to shred. For clean sounds, it is good, (although Splitt sr) but I think that this is not a need to choose, as is the fact that we should not take it exclusively for low because the tune is subtle diffrence. This is a good microphone to the modern is versatile, enjoyable play rhythm as a solo for the metal. It's kind of good compromise between tone zone and steve's special.

Rcupration my opinion of 23/05/2004

B'en wala ... what about ...
Go ... micro cramique bridge, passive, a range of pads adjustable by allen cl, and a bar. 4 son. Supposed to send the big tune in low position in the strip nearest the bridge, and be more east shredder with the pads near the bridge ... mouaif. Does not exist in F-Spaced.

Well, I tried it only set to "rhythmic", as it is on a baritone guitar Schecter, replacing Duncan Designed not transcendent.

B'en yeah, it's ... well. I do not know how dcrire sound. Yes, it restores the low tune well, still a pretty good Dfine, yes it is distortion in prcis enough, yes it has a lot of gain, so it is not in dgueu clean, so clean in Splitt he spends quite a bit even. As usual with high output pickups, do not bother to push the gain of the amplifier 10, if the sound turns to mush.

But ... It is smooth, no real flavor. I still do not know what to think. It is like the son IDAL, the son of good family ... smooth, police not a word above the other ... bland. Hifi.
Nothing to rveiller night.

Ha, last dtail for the end: it is the microphone used by the scratch of Linkin Park

APRS many tests DIFFERENT BRIDGE microphones, I must admit that the D Sonic is nice .. trs However, it must be under the rflchir poses, both as possible.
I tried both, I prfr the coils ct adjustable bridge, bar one, which gives much more crystalline and finesse. What I like is the dynamic, clean and harmonious (in this sense and the The definition ... With a little more treble (and still is see) would be perfect, but the you can play either on the pdalier or on the amp, what I do ... and happiness. I try on my Musicman Silhouette, the Paf Pro, Tone Zone, Evolution Bridge, Super Disto, Virtual PAF bridge, a Gibson T500, a 498T, Seymour Pearly Gate + ...
If c'tait again without hsitation .... I'm also in a rabe (in black)

[said 12/08/10]

I deleted everything I had described on the mic as I had mounted on a guitar with a touch bene in and I was not at all aim.
On this same guitar, I now have a new handle but with a rosewood fingerboard, I've now installed a new D sonic (air norton in neck) and trs is good! !
A good balance of frquences, harmonics, the precision, a gain Grable, well suited to rosewood.
Dimarzio one of the best for me.
[edit on 09/09/10]
I just tried this time with the bar to the handle, not bad at all, less acute but less harmonic also warmer, guitar gives Eb.
[edit] Finally in my tuning in Eb, I prfre ct with the bar rack is more prcis.
Overall, I prfre association Tone Zone / Air Norton, less gain but more massive, more cohrente, I feel incohrence between D sonic and Air norton, certainly due to the fact that The D Sonic is a ceramic and an Air Norton alnico 5.
Another personal opinion, I prfre bridge pickups less potent than the D sonic and boost with a tube screamer or equivalent.

Tried both ways

sounds very modern: the presence of many sharp and precise, mids that look good but the lower back, giving the impression of a narrow, dry, with too much dive

Position the rack bar to provide a good balance in the frequencies but is designed for low tunings

a general point of view I do not turn aggressive and powerful, too precise and character a little smoother, I think this book is micro rather type a Mesa Boogie amp

- Personally I class with the tone zone in the final position in relation to EMG 85, 60, 81, SA, DiMarzio evolution, Megadrive, steve's special, virtual PAF, Fred, air norton, and Seymour Duncan JB I) . Now everything also depends on the hardware and tastes.

I use it for the month of September 2008 for the purchase of a Musicman Petrucci
I knew the microphone thanks to superb solos from John Petrucci and I immediately hung his sonoritsa pchues both incisors and the rhythmic, and instead trs prcises solo I put a lot of comments saying that it is a micro personalis cold and I think it's absolutely false.

You with this microphone the sound of the 90-2000, a rsolument its modern, clean, burr-free, for this, we must understand that it does not roar like some seymour duncan or even a tone zone, but strength of the micro RSID vritablement in its precision, mounted on a good guitar, you have the feeling of having total control over your sound.
It has a microphone that the class could be said.

I quite like the sound it makes plain, fairly neutral, but it is true nanmoins trs good, what makes great reverb type effects, delay, chorus ... (on the petrucci can also mix with the sound of the piezo!)
Splitt it sounds exactly like Jason Becker Air (in the case tt musicman)

Its specially distortion remains my view that the micro o shows why he does Designed.
I use a Marshall MG 100DFX and a Framus Cobra Framus cabinet with (G12)
Dej and the transistor is not ridiculous, we just want to plug it into a tube amp.
Branch Chres our little heads, the microphone is really wonderful, it dcrasse amps and ears! Banez has over my RG 2550 with micro Dimarzio / IBZ is the day and night.
D-Sonic is powerful, sharp, roaring, while remaining trs trs prcis, it is a good delay and a good reverb and voila you have a John Petrucci = pure but In- Your Face.

Any takers, next opinion on the Tone Zone, the HS2 and the PAF Pro

The Dropsonic was Dimarzios first try at a pickup like this. They now have several half rail half pole piece pickups but I believe this was the first one and it had some growing pains. Its assymetrical design means that depending on how it is oriented in your guitar it will sound quite different. The pickup is like one half x2n and the other half tone zone. It has ceramic magnets and the usual 4 conductor wiring. This pickup did have some growing pains. Being the first pickup of this type it had plenty of problems. It is noted for being super noisy like an old EMG 58 or something. You wouldnt expect a pickup this noisy to be sold nowadays. Even with being noisy it was still pretty popular among guitar players. Petrucci used them when they first came out in his guitars. He now uses a more updated evolution of the same slug and rail design pickup. It really does sound like an x2n mixed with a Tone Zone. The x2n is pretty bright and has decent high end so imagine that mixed with the crazy harmonics of the Tone Zone and you get this pickup. When installing this pickup just imagine the rail part of the pickup the hotter part. If you place the hot end towards the bridge on your guitar you will get a more trebley sound. If you place it towards the neck you get a fatter but also muddier sound. It all depends on what you want. Having an assymetrical design like this kinda makes it two pickups in one. I did not try it in the neck position but I doubt it is any good there. I also did not try the split tones from this pickup. With its design I bet the split tones are either really good or really bad. If you are looking at this pickup I suggest you check out the Crunch Lab also. It is this pickup but more refined and not as noisy.

I use this microphone for a half day, having tried many things before, I must confess that I am blown ...
It has a micro high output level, it has a potato absolutely insane, used by John Petrucci, Stone Sour, and so on, it sends, and, for versatility, you pass is not here it goes.
This mic is absolutely huge, mounted on an Ibanez Sabre S FM 540, a guitar that I particularly like, it gives a second life to the beast. Playing the volume was clearly different sounds, it reacts very well. When the volume down, he keeps an extremely clean, it loads slightly low and high bias (Randall RG 50 TC) obtains a very particular sound, it grows, it gains in grain it has a more crunch, and it calls up all I could see far into micro liabilities.
Purchased € 88 in Germany, with 10 € for shipping, assembly easy, 3 welds, it hurts.
Coupled with a floyd rose original, it responds perfectly to the movement of strings, it is extremely precise solo, lots of sustain, a note very clean, it is absolutely fabulous.
Attention to those who do not know if you have a floyd, take the F-spaced format. I made a mistake on my order, having seen the notice saying that the difference in sound between the F-spaced pickups with the pads aligned with the strings, and mine, less well aligned, well I agree with them, it does not sound lame, I have a specific sound, sharp and very clean. He will probably be more with the right format, but, this mic is really good.
I advise anyone who will play on the more hardcore, punk, hard rock, metal, solo or rhythm, it is fantastic.

I use it for one month, mounted on an Ibanez Jcustom.

I could compare it with a tone and a Evo2 area:
In the clear:
This is the best microphone of the three:
The area is very cartoonish tone, the sound is very thick in the mids, like a supercharged twang who drool all over the place, the attack is mole, so, I often feel that saturate the clean channel of my Brunetti . It's ugly.
The Evo2 is just tasteless, very cold, with a good attack and good precision, but with frequencies not necessarily pleasant.
The D-Sonic overcomes both problems: it is accurate, the attack is made, the frequencies give it a sort of twang nice, quite cold, but I like it.

In full:
As stated several times lower, we are in the same register a tone zone, more accurate, especially on the palm mute attacks.

The DiMarzio D-Sonic is a new take on the humbucker that many people haven’t pursued before. It features one coil that’s similar to the X2N and one coil that’s kinda similar to the Tone Zone. The pickup is unique in that it sounds different depending on its orientation. The pickup also features four conductor wiring and a ceramic magnet.

The D-Sonic is one of those pickups that seems like an experiment more than anything. Earlier, I referred to it being similar to an X2N and a Tone Zone put together, and it’s really similar to that. It’s a very high output pickup, but it’s very noisy. I have no clue why DiMarzio released such a noisy pickup. The pickup itself is fairly even in tone except for this upper treble bite. That treble bite is ultimate what lead me to dislike this pickup.

Most people who try this are going to try it in basswood. After all, that’s what John Petrucci first used it in. However, I can firmly say that this pickup doesn’t sound that great in basswood. The treble is amplified in a way that it becomes almost grating. The evenness of the pickup also leads it to have no flavor at all. Keep in mind, this is all with the bar facing towards the bridge. With the bar towards the neck, it sounds pretty fat and is fairly clear. However, you then have this issue of it sounding really bad when it’s split.

To me, this pickup is more suited towards mahogany. In fact, it’s a great match with a mahogany body and a rosewood fretboard. These help warm it up enough to give it character while having everything sound fairly clean. If you’re going to try out this pickup, be sure to watch your noise levels. It’s very sensitive to lights and other electric signals that pickups might pick up.

It's been one month and a half that my luthier me this microphone mounted in the bridge position, toward the handle bar on my RG 3120.
Before this microphone, I first had the Dimarzio / Ibanez, then a Seymour Duncan SH-5 Custom Dimarzio and finally an AT-1. The first was bof, I do not remember too much actually ... The second was too aggressive and not sufficiently accurate or warm, and the last was pretty good, very warm, very soft, but it lacked a chouille precision ...
So now, this micro there. It is ceramic and not surbobiné (12.96 kOhm), and yet it has a high output level, which means he has a clear sound, but also a powerful magnet (remember to remove the ropes of at least 3mm).
In the position in which I have mounted, there's clarity, gloss, but not shrill treble.
In his clear, forget, except if we lower the volume, but then the character is not very interesting ...
In the crunch, it's way is not génialissime, but it is not really made for that: too nervous, bright, clean.
In disto: there is énormissime. Brightness, cleanliness, everything is perfect. The palms are huge mute, the sound is deep, cavernous nerve in nervous, that's great. Everything I Was looking for.
Solos going very well, the harmonics go all alone. Great for my style rock / fusion / progressive.
Value for money very well. Maybe if I had to choose, try a Crunch Lab, or other Dimarzio ...
Good evening!

Recently mounted to the handle bar on my Vigier Excalibur Original (company evolution of a neck), I could try it with the same settings as the tone zone and we can tell, these microphones are cousins. Note that I speak of the versions F-spaced.

The D-sonic sounds already loaded in less than the low tone area but it has beautiful too. The microphone lead is very good (especially with the strip side handle) and went really well as rhythm. It is sharper than the tone zone which justifies its more modern side.
In fact, it seems a compromise (not bad for that matter) into a tone zone and an emg.

It is also more oriented lead the crunchlab it is more serious. (Lack of presence for my taste)

By now clean, well there is no dream when you reach a level of output as it is hardly possible to have a good clean. In one split, it is much less convincing than the tone zone which is a marvel in Split and is much better in parallel with a split neck pickup and there it is fun with a really precise intermediate position and dug the way you like or agreements and big sound and arpeggios as well.

In summary, a very micro-oriented modern soloist and holds the road well in heavy metal rhythm, but to choose for what it is, if you want a more violent steer you towards an emg, a dimebucker or X2n.