Combing Duncans with DiMarzio's

[jeremy]

Re: Combing Duncans with DiMarzio's

everybody needs to mellow out, whats with all this tension?

[Truthsayer]

Re: Combing Duncans with DiMarzio's

I've never tried mixing pickups but there are lots of combinations that would probably work out great.

Pearly Gates - Neck
Super Distortion - Bridge

Alnico II Pro - Neck
Air Norton - Bridge

Fast Track 1 - Neck & Middle
Pearly Gates - Bridge

Full Shred - Neck
Evolution - Bridge

PAF Pro - Neck
JB - Bridge

Etcetera.......etcetera........

Its mostly true that Duncans and DiMarzios sound completely different. But to my ears I think an Air Classic sounds close to a Alnico II Pro.

[Xeromus]

Re: Combing Duncans with DiMarzio's

staying ON topic, in my ibanez S-series I'm putting a little '59 in the neck. I have a two dimarzio h2's in there now and I hate them, too thin and yucky sounding. The middle one doesn't sound as bad as the neck though. I'm putting a cool rails in the middle. I have a tone zone in the bridge now and I might put in a duncan distortion.

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Re: Combing Duncans with DiMarzio's

everybody needs to mellow out, whats with all this tension?

i dont know.

[Truthsayer]

Re: Combing Duncans with DiMarzio's

staying ON topic, in my ibanez S-series I'm putting a little '59 in the neck. I have a two dimarzio h2's in there now and I hate them, too thin and yucky sounding. The middle one doesn't sound as bad as the neck though. I'm putting a cool rails in the middle. I have a tone zone in the bridge now and I might put in a duncan distortion.

The H2s might sound too thin because they are completely overpowered by that Tone Zone in the bridge. Maybe if you swaped out the Tone Zone for an Air Zone or a PAF Pro or an Alnico Pro II or a Pearly Gates, then the bridge pickups will balance with the other two and your guitar would sound great. The H2s are great transparent sounding pickups. I don't know how they could sound "yucky" unless pickup height is out of adjustment or you a beginner thinking that your pickups are going to make you sound like "__________".

[BloodRose]

Re: Combing Duncans with DiMarzio's

I did this on my RG570. Not to just mix things up, but to use the pickups I thought best for each postion.
I have Duncan 59b in the neck, Bill Lawrence 250HP in the middle and Dimarzio Tone Zone in the bridge.
That axe does it all and does it with authority!

[Mac-P]

Re: Combing Duncans with DiMarzio's

everybody needs to mellow out, whats with all this tension?

I hear ya. Sorry for my part in it.