Motherbucker á la DiMarzio?

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Motherbucker á la DiMarzio?

http://www.guitar.com.au/pickups/dimarzio/humbukers/multibucker.html

The Multibucker™ puts a Fast Track 1™ and a Chopper™ together in the space of one full-size humbucker. Both pickups in series create a huge humbucking sound--thick and powerful. Turning on just the Fast Track 1™ side provides classic single-coil clarity and clang with double the usual output. The Chopper™ side is a hotter sound; more balls in the mids and low-end, with the kick and high-end of a real single-coil. All positions are completely humbucking.

Beyond the obvious benefits of 3 switchable sounds, the Multibucker's 4-coil, 4-blade design distributes the magnetic field evenly for focussed bottom-end and low string-pull. And it looks cool too!

That in a Les Paul might be mass destruction?

Has anybody tried it?
 
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Re: Motherbucker á la DiMarzio?

You might love it, but I would only recommend it if your main objective was to toggle between the sounds of the Fast Track and the Chopper. 4 coils in series is not like "going to eleven". Most people find it to be an ugly sound. The aperture is spread out over the whole pickup, and there's no focused magnetic "input point" to the sound. Every time you add another magnetic sensing coil or "input" it tends to cancel out some of the attack and harmonics, because the sensing location is different.

I made a Quad Rail from a couple Japanese Gotoh pickups. One was a Cool Rail type and the other a Hot Rail type. There were some very cool sounds in there when accessing one or two rails at a time. Inside CR, inside HR series was great, and outside CR/HR parallel was pretty neat too. But all 4 coils was like a poor man's Distortion. I like it and I'm going to put it back into a guitar when it's painted. I have it with a neck and middle rail so it looks pretty cool on the guitar.

If it's the "all four coils at once" tone you're going for, the PATB Distortion would murder it.
 
Re: Motherbucker á la DiMarzio?

Re: Motherbucker á la DiMarzio?

I had the stock Quadrails that came in my Kramer Striker for a year before I replaced them with a PATB-2 and Fullshred.

The only way they were really usable for rhythm work was to coil tap, but they still lacked (any) definition and were fairly muddy pickups. For soloing though, they sang.

http://images.google.com.au/images?...US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

The PATB-2 does murder it. And then it chops it into little pieces. When it's done doing that, it jumps on those little pieces.
 
Re: Motherbucker á la DiMarzio?

Re: Motherbucker á la DiMarzio?

Can't beat the PATB-2 for sonic assault! Shameless plug for mine that is for sale. Buy it!
 
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