DiMarzio DP156 Humbucker From Hell - "solid low-med gain neck pickup!!"
This is a decent neck pickup for any guitar with nearly any wood combination. It's a versatile pickup for clean to medium gain musical applications from jazz to rock. Of course, majority of the time …
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 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 DP213 PAF Joe - "PAF Pro Revised"
The DiMarzio PAF Joe is an evolution of the original PAF Pro that Joe Satriani used throughout most of his career. DiMarzio says it uses some special technology to achieve a new sound, and I’m not e…
DiMarzio DP104 Super 2 - "Neck version of the Super Dist."
The Super 2 was a pickup made to go along with the Super Distortion. It’s a very high output, bitey and compressed pickup. It features adjustable pole pieces on both coils, four conductor wiring a…
DiMarzio DP102 X2N - "Brutally hot"
The DiMarzio X2N is a balls to the wall, aggressive pickup that really slams your front end. If you’re looking for a versatile pickup, I would not recommend this. However, if you’re a metal player,…
DiMarzio DP101 Dual Sound - "A Super Distortion with a push/pull"
This pickup is EXACTLY the same as the Super Distortion. The only difference is that it contains a push/pull pot to split it. Therefore, I'll just reword the original review I did for the Super Dis…
DiMarzio DP207 DropSonic - "A little bright and stiff"
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 p…
DiMarzio DP205 Steve Morse Model Neck - "Air Norton's older brother"
Steve Morse collaborated with DiMarzio to create his own signature pickups way back in the early 80s. The goal was to create a pickup that was balanced but has strong midrange. The pickup features …
DiMarzio DP200 Steve Morse Model Bridge - "High midrange bite, yet not harsh"
Steve Morse collaborated with DiMarzio to create his own signature pickups way back in the early 80s. The goal was to create a pickup that was balanced but has strong midrange. The pickup features …
DiMarzio DP193 Air Norton - "Silky smooth lead tones"
The DiMarzio Air Norton is probably one of the more famous pickups in their line, thanks in part to John Petrucci and Ibanez using them throughout most of the J-Custom line. This pickup features DiM…
DiMarzio DP192 Air Zone - "Tone Zone with an air gap"
The DiMarzio Air Zone is basically a Tone Zone with an air gap. DiMarzio puts a gap between the magnet and pole pieces. This creates these real neat overtones that while knocking down the output a …
DiMarzio DP191 Air Classic Bridge - "Rather have a 36th Anniv."
The DiMarzio Air Classic Bridge is DiMarzio’s take on the old 50s PAFs. However, it’s a bit irrelevant today with the new PAF 36th Anniversary Bridge out. Their goal was to create an old school PAF…
DiMarzio DP166 The Breed Bridge - "Great for RGs"
The DiMarzio Breed Bridge was designed for Steve Vai when he wanted a different sound than his original Evolution pickups for his Pogo guitar. It’s quite a bit closer to a normal PAF than the Evolut…
DiMarzio DP165 The Breed Neck - "Modified PAF Pro"
The DiMarzio Breed Neck was designed for Steve Vai when he wanted a different sound than his original Evolution pickups. They’re a lot closer to a normal PAF than the Evolution and not nearly as hot…
DiMarzio DP161 Steve's Special - "Fat and clear"
The DiMarzio Steve’s Special is a pickup that Steve Blucher wound as an experiment more than anything else. It happened to turn out to be quite an awesome pickup. Most pickups out there boost the m…
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…