PurityS.L.G
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Not the biggest fan of DiMarzios but the clips I hear of them have a nice throaty sound to them. Are the highs smooth or smeared? Tell me everything you know please 
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Epiplatys
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I have them on the MM Majesties. Seem to work well enough. Not a huge amount of highs, so yes they sound a bit on the smoother/warmer side, some compression noticable. JP seems to like them. Some like me prefer a bit more open sounding pickups... despite playing similar music to what JP's playing. So it is all subjective, you need to try it.
But again, they get the job done, are decent pickups. And with things further in the signal chain you manipulate it to get pretty much any decent high-gain tone. Low gain I would suggest there are other pickup options that would work better.
But again, they get the job done, are decent pickups. And with things further in the signal chain you manipulate it to get pretty much any decent high-gain tone. Low gain I would suggest there are other pickup options that would work better.
BenoA
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Kapo_Polenton
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Man, Dimarzio with all these lines and pickup names...how many variations can there possibly be?! I really like their 36 anni but everything else always felt over EQ'd or compressed. SD for me on most days... less models, simpler names lol.
Shask
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Yeah, that is one annoying thing about Dimarzio. They will have like 10 models that are all slight tweaks of each other.
Rex Rocker
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So do Seymour Duncan, honestly.
They have the JB, JB Antiquity, JB Rails, Thrash Factor, Dave Mustaine Livewire, Alex Skolnick, RTM, Distortion, Black Winter, Invader, all variations on the JB recipee in one way or another. I'm sure there's more that I'm missing.
Then they have like 10 or 15 other models based on the PAF.
Not saying that's a bad thing. And I'm not even defending DiMarzio. I also prefer Duncans. But having a lot of models isn't really a bad thing, I think.
JMO.
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Shask
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I just think Dimarzio are worse at it. You get Petrucci 2003, Petrucci 2005, Petrucci 2008, Vai 1996, Vai 1999, Vai 2001, etc....
Rex Rocker
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TBH, it does get tiring that Petrucci seems to get a sig every odd year, LOL.
But I still think it's cool that they have a bunch of different pickups catered to different tastes.
I personally find it cool that DiMarzio have more variety when it comes to fat overwound neck pickups. It almost feels like 90% of Duncan neck humbuckers are 7K-ish PAF-types.
And side by side, I highly doubt that DiMarzio have more than 20%-ish more humbuckers than Duncan in their catalog. It seems like lately, Duncan release a new PAF type or two every six months or so.
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Kapo_Polenton
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What is he really tweaking year over year? They probably just turn the treb up one year and the bass back the other
dave74
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Actually if you go through the specs of all the past and present jp pickups there is much variation in output and dcr, maybe not as much in general EQ profile, but then again I would say more EQ variation than Dimarzio's tone chart would suggest, although I think they have recently switched to profiles that depict upper-mids and lower-mids separately which really helps.
Compare his most recent sig bridges for example.
https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/high-power/sonic-ecstasy-bridge?v=32266
https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/high-power/dreamcatcher-bridge?v=30678
Compare those to the older sigs.
https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/high-power/crunch-lab?v=25779
https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/high-power/illuminator-bridge?v=27076
Compare his most recent sig bridges for example.
https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/high-power/sonic-ecstasy-bridge?v=32266
https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/high-power/dreamcatcher-bridge?v=30678
Compare those to the older sigs.
https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/high-power/crunch-lab?v=25779
https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/high-power/illuminator-bridge?v=27076
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