Any DiMarzio Super Distortion fans in here?

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Great choice. It's a really good pickup in Strats. One of my favs.
 
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Dig mine in my Hamer. Thick and juicy with great cut in a live setting.
 
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great pickup, real fat sounding, sounds killer through a marshall. Lots of emphasis on bass and tons of mids. A bit to dry sounding for my taste though.
 
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I use mine in an alder/maple strat with a 250K pot and it takes the dryness/brittleness out of the sound, just makes it big and fat sounding.
 
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The Super D was the first bucker in my Strat and it sounded great!
 
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appar111 said:
I use mine in an alder/maple strat with a 250K pot and it takes the dryness/brittleness out of the sound, just makes it big and fat sounding.
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This was going to be my next question.........is it ok to use the stock 250K pots that are in my Strat with the SD?
 
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If you have the vintage style 6 point bridge and not the newer 2 point, the F spaced variant will line up better.
 
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Benjy_26 said:
If you have the vintage style 6 point bridge and not the newer 2 point, the F spaced variant will line up better.
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I'd go F-Spaced even with the newer 2-point trem. The poles line up perfectly with it. Definitely go F-Spaced.

With a 250k volume pot, it's great. Splits well and is the only humbucker that I can actually say I like the sound of in parallel.
 
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ErikH said:
I'd go F-Spaced even with the newer 2-point trem. The poles line up perfectly with it. Definitely go F-Spaced.

With a 250k volume pot, it's great. Splits well and is the only humbucker that I can actually say I like the sound of in parallel.
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Awesome,thanks!
 
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Yep, I've got a Super D with two Fender Custom Shop 69's in one of my Strat's. I really this combo. Bit of a volume drop but I usually use the Dimarzio for the rock 80's metal stuff and the singles for clean or driven blues.
 
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Moonsorrow said:
This was going to be my next question.........is it ok to use the stock 250K pots that are in my Strat with the SD?
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Originally I had 250K in there then changed to 500K which sounded better. Your SC's will be brighter, but nothing your tone control can't take care of.
 
Re: Any DiMarzio Super Distortion fans in here?

Ok...say i change my Strat to a single humbucker configuration,would it be better to use the Super Distortion with a 250K or 500K volume pot?

No tone controls,just one volume control.
 
Re: Any DiMarzio Super Distortion fans in here?

I would say 250 for me just since strats are quite bright on their own, but the super is also a darker pickup so it's basically personal preference
 
Re: Any DiMarzio Super Distortion fans in here?

I would say 250 for me just since strats are quite bright on their own, but the super is also a darker pickup so it's basically personal preference
 
Re: Any DiMarzio Super Distortion fans in here?

Yeah, it's definitely a personal preference there. Try both and go with what you like best.
 
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