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I have tried so many over the years. I see a few posters ask about DiMarzio's on this board.
The first one was the double cream super distortion. I had one of the first few made when they first came out publicly. He was winding them for certain friends first.
They weren't too bad. But next was his PAF and that sucked. I used Gibson T tops in the neck and his SD's in the bridge of my Les Pauls.
All through the 70's and some into the 80's and 90's I have tried DiMarzio pickups and ended up selling them or giving them away. I worked for a dealer and got them at cost yet I stuck with Duncans. I never got the guitar to sound right with a Dimarzio. It was always missing something and actually made the guitar sound cheesy for lack of a better word.
I will say I liked the Tom Holmes PAF's and Fralin strat pups I used.
But Duncan's are the best for the money and they make almost anything you need.
He should really sell the Brobucker as a standard pup, it's great. Also the tapped version of the Antiquity Texas custom hot bridge strat pup, MJ made me three.
The Duncan humbuckers are great pickups and easy to change the magnets or even make hybrid designs by changing coils.
So in my opinion you can get any sound you want using a Duncan of some kind.
I just felt like writing this because I felt like it...
mg:
I am in a weird mood and reminiscing about the past.
Everytime I plug one of my guitars in I love the way those Duncans sound, just the way I want without exception once I found the right one. Some I had to modify some are MJ Custom shop, some stock out of the box. Some like the Stag Mag I could not get to sound good.
I live on Staten Island and have a lot of mutual friends of Larry.
In about 1975 I met a guy who worked for him at a gig. I called him at the shop and asked him if he could make me a strat pickup like a humbucker with one coil on top of the other. Yes a stacked strat pickup, it was my idea at the same time DiMarzio was working on it. Although I didn't know it at the time.
Well, the guy yelled at me over the phone and said never call him, that I was some type of spy. He said all types of other nasty things to me too. That's a true story.
Anyway, before you even think about a DiMarzio try a Duncan or two.
How's that? Do you think they'll hire me now?:newangel:
Just kidding.......
The first one was the double cream super distortion. I had one of the first few made when they first came out publicly. He was winding them for certain friends first.
They weren't too bad. But next was his PAF and that sucked. I used Gibson T tops in the neck and his SD's in the bridge of my Les Pauls.
All through the 70's and some into the 80's and 90's I have tried DiMarzio pickups and ended up selling them or giving them away. I worked for a dealer and got them at cost yet I stuck with Duncans. I never got the guitar to sound right with a Dimarzio. It was always missing something and actually made the guitar sound cheesy for lack of a better word.
I will say I liked the Tom Holmes PAF's and Fralin strat pups I used.
But Duncan's are the best for the money and they make almost anything you need.
He should really sell the Brobucker as a standard pup, it's great. Also the tapped version of the Antiquity Texas custom hot bridge strat pup, MJ made me three.
The Duncan humbuckers are great pickups and easy to change the magnets or even make hybrid designs by changing coils.
So in my opinion you can get any sound you want using a Duncan of some kind.
I just felt like writing this because I felt like it...
mg:I am in a weird mood and reminiscing about the past.
Everytime I plug one of my guitars in I love the way those Duncans sound, just the way I want without exception once I found the right one. Some I had to modify some are MJ Custom shop, some stock out of the box. Some like the Stag Mag I could not get to sound good.
I live on Staten Island and have a lot of mutual friends of Larry.
In about 1975 I met a guy who worked for him at a gig. I called him at the shop and asked him if he could make me a strat pickup like a humbucker with one coil on top of the other. Yes a stacked strat pickup, it was my idea at the same time DiMarzio was working on it. Although I didn't know it at the time.
Well, the guy yelled at me over the phone and said never call him, that I was some type of spy. He said all types of other nasty things to me too. That's a true story.
Anyway, before you even think about a DiMarzio try a Duncan or two.
How's that? Do you think they'll hire me now?:newangel:
Just kidding.......
Thx Seymour For filling our Sound With "Mojo"
