Anyone Try Dimarzio Chopper or Billy Corgan Pickups BC-1, BC-2?
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Rand-O-Monium
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Re: Anyone Try Dimarzio Chopper or Billy Corgan Pickups BC-1, BC-2?
Love teh Chopper @ teh nk pos!!!
No exp w/teh BC's tho...
Love teh Chopper @ teh nk pos!!!
No exp w/teh BC's tho...
Laughing Kookaburra
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Re: Anyone Try Dimarzio Chopper or Billy Corgan Pickups BC-1, BC-2?
Had a Chopper T in a mid 90s MIA Tele, killer crunch tone. It had a full bodied tone, with just enough high end to distinguish itself from most humbuckers. I had a switch for parallel mode, and that gave it sort of a generic trad Tele spank. It would not satisfy a true Tele or Strat purist, but for my needs, it was serviceable. A tech at DiMarzio recommended against a coil split; said it would be too glassy.
Have not used the BC model. My understanding is that is a modded Chopper.
Had a Chopper T in a mid 90s MIA Tele, killer crunch tone. It had a full bodied tone, with just enough high end to distinguish itself from most humbuckers. I had a switch for parallel mode, and that gave it sort of a generic trad Tele spank. It would not satisfy a true Tele or Strat purist, but for my needs, it was serviceable. A tech at DiMarzio recommended against a coil split; said it would be too glassy.
Have not used the BC model. My understanding is that is a modded Chopper.
TheLivingDead
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Re: Anyone Try Dimarzio Chopper or Billy Corgan Pickups BC-1, BC-2?
Biiiig fan of the Chopper in the neck.
Biiiig fan of the Chopper in the neck.
ztevie
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Re: Anyone Try Dimarzio Chopper or Billy Corgan Pickups BC-1, BC-2?
Got a Chopper in the neck of a Peavey Vandenberg. Really, really nice... I use it for solos and clean stuff.
Articulate with nice string separation, very snappy and answers to how you pick the string with the perfect amount of output to do just about everything. I like it in paralell, very singlecoilish for being a HB. EQ:ed perfect for what I want.
Love it!
Got a Chopper in the neck of a Peavey Vandenberg. Really, really nice... I use it for solos and clean stuff.
Articulate with nice string separation, very snappy and answers to how you pick the string with the perfect amount of output to do just about everything. I like it in paralell, very singlecoilish for being a HB. EQ:ed perfect for what I want.
Love it!
Re: Anyone Try Dimarzio Chopper or Billy Corgan Pickups BC-1, BC-2?
how does the chopper differ from the fast track 1 ? the eq ratings are very similar. and from the cruiser??
I had a pair of fast track 1s in a kramer focus 6000 with a custom 8 in the bridge and it was killer.. (hate that I sold that axe....) never tried any of the others. The FT2 is a ton hotter I know, but wondered how the Chopper and cruiser differed.
Billy Corgan pups?? really?? I can pretty much cop that tone with crappy oem pups and a grunge pedal...
how does the chopper differ from the fast track 1 ? the eq ratings are very similar. and from the cruiser??
I had a pair of fast track 1s in a kramer focus 6000 with a custom 8 in the bridge and it was killer.. (hate that I sold that axe....) never tried any of the others. The FT2 is a ton hotter I know, but wondered how the Chopper and cruiser differed.
Billy Corgan pups?? really?? I can pretty much cop that tone with crappy oem pups and a grunge pedal...
lazyfinger
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Re: Anyone Try Dimarzio Chopper or Billy Corgan Pickups BC-1, BC-2?
BC has several different tones. On Mayonaise, he did use a pawnshop cheap strat with crappy oem pups and fuzz pedal of some sort, may be Big muff, so go figure.
The BC-2 is a modded Tone Zone S
The BC-1 is a modded Air Norton S.
His strat also has a chopper in the middle, which I never seen him use in live videos.
Most of the post-gish live shows he did had lace sensors RSB, so if I had to put a label on how to achieve the 90's live "Corgan" tone, those would be it. The gish and pre-gish and parts of siamese dream had the 70's strat with single coils. But in reality, he probably used more than 40 different types of guitars for the records. During their final tour in 1999 and 2000 or whatever, he started using mostly gibson guitars, and even Ibanez and Jazzmaster copy on few shows.
The Dimarzio that he is using now is only to develop his new sound, it won't "cop" his old sound, it's not suppose to, just marketing hype. They're about as relevant as using JB to play cherub rock, and I've used just that, it sounded awesome.
My favorite corgan tone would've been around the gish era, before the fuzz became all the rage.
Chopper has higher output and mids than Fast Track 1, which has higher output than cruiser. Cruiser sounds most like an ordinary single coil.
I've used Fender High output Alnico 3 (stock), Chopper, Air Norton S, Heavy Blues 2, BC-2, Fred, and Duncan Phat Cat on the bridge of a same strat, and now I am waiting on Fast Track 2 to arrive.
BC has several different tones. On Mayonaise, he did use a pawnshop cheap strat with crappy oem pups and fuzz pedal of some sort, may be Big muff, so go figure.
The BC-2 is a modded Tone Zone S
The BC-1 is a modded Air Norton S.
His strat also has a chopper in the middle, which I never seen him use in live videos.
Most of the post-gish live shows he did had lace sensors RSB, so if I had to put a label on how to achieve the 90's live "Corgan" tone, those would be it. The gish and pre-gish and parts of siamese dream had the 70's strat with single coils. But in reality, he probably used more than 40 different types of guitars for the records. During their final tour in 1999 and 2000 or whatever, he started using mostly gibson guitars, and even Ibanez and Jazzmaster copy on few shows.
The Dimarzio that he is using now is only to develop his new sound, it won't "cop" his old sound, it's not suppose to, just marketing hype. They're about as relevant as using JB to play cherub rock, and I've used just that, it sounded awesome.
My favorite corgan tone would've been around the gish era, before the fuzz became all the rage.
Chopper has higher output and mids than Fast Track 1, which has higher output than cruiser. Cruiser sounds most like an ordinary single coil.
I've used Fender High output Alnico 3 (stock), Chopper, Air Norton S, Heavy Blues 2, BC-2, Fred, and Duncan Phat Cat on the bridge of a same strat, and now I am waiting on Fast Track 2 to arrive.
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