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I remember it being fairly bright but not as bright as say a pearly gates bridge. It has a bit of heft to it to my ears so it’s more like how a presence control brightens.

There are some crossovers of members here with the more nerdy of the sites so I figure one of them might chime in but until then… https://guitarnuts2.proboards.com/thread/10938/why-dimarzio-paf-brighter-jazz It actually is about the paf pro

I just found out that the dimarzio fortitude has oversized screw poles. I’m wondering if they are in fact bobbins meant for dimarzios with the wider Allen poles and they managed using larger diameter screws. Has anybody tried this on their dimarzios and what size were the screw poles if you did?

One thing I’ve been curious about doing, is wiring a switch to mimic a turned down volume pot. I like the feel and sound of humbuckers when the volume is turned down but I don’t like to fiddle with the knob to get to say 4 and then fiddle to turn it up. It seems like a minor thing but it gets in...

I tried a new Ibanez az standard model today. Nice specs to it and played and sounded great. I curious if anybody knows if the pickups are loosely based on any particular model. I know that the Hyperion humbuckers are based quite a bit on Duncan sentient and Pegasus humbuckers and the Fusion...

Came across roughly two hours of Dimarzio humbucker (and a couple mega and duncans) tests. Mostly subtle differences but I definitely had ones I liked and disliked.

I came across a comparison video of a JB and an underwound (lower gain?) JB. The lower output one sounds amazing and maybe 90% there to the JB tone. I can see this being used in a bass heavy guitar. I think it has a good amount of potential.

I’ve been going through a lower output phase where I’ve found pickups like the 59 and the pearly gates endearing for the clarity, chime, and nuance I can get out if them. I was considering a 59 seven string humbucker for one of my guitars. I looked into it and found a post that said that the...

I’m looking for a seven string bridge humbucker that’s not overly hot. Something on the moderate side. I’ve tried the Blaze and it’s okay but I feel it’s a bit wiry in the midrange that I don’t care much for. The Crunchlab 7 doesn’t lighten up and it’s kind of thud like in the low end. I haven’t...

I was reading about how some dimarzio humbucker sound noticeably different depending on which coil faces the bridge or neck. Has anybody reversed a Duncan humbucker and found that it changed the sound a lot? Brighter? Warmer? Louder even?

One thing I dislike about HH guitars is that the middle toggle position with both humbuckers on sounds too much like the neck humbucker alone. The neck always dominates over the bridge. In many cases it’s not a unique tone of its own, just a version of the overall neck tone. Has anybody done...

I tried a PRS McCarty SE today and the pickups were amazing. I cranked up a katana 100 at guitar center and strictly with panel controls and got some of the best tones I’ve ever had. I’ve been biased because McCarty always meant grandpa guitar to me but I got on very well with this guitar. The...

Is there a benefit to the design of wide range humbuckers? I know it started as a way for fender to compete with Gibson and their humbuckers but outside of individual magnet pole pieces with humbucking coils, I don’t get the hype. I like some fenders that come with them. But the whole wide range...

I read in a forum that Dimarzio humbucker tend to have a faster more immediate attack because they are more compressed. As opposed to lower output or vintage humbuckers that have a bit of sag to the attack with a bloom to the note over time. I find myself gravitating towards pickups with an...

I went to guitar center and finally tried an Ibanez Jem Jr. I always stayed away from them because I didn’t want a lightweight version of a signature model to be disappointed in. But I got on real well with the quantum pickups in it. They weren’t sterile sounding as I assumed they would be. They...