REVIEW: DiMarzio Humbucker From Hell pups

[Biu]

Re: REVIEW: DiMarzio Humbucker From Hell pups

glad you have found a tone that is so pleasing to you, Biu

the snippet i quoted above is preplexing to me (and i am assuming you meant split, not tapped - is this a correct assumption?) ... could you explain the circumstances under which you made this observation? ... it seems to me that in order for it to be accurate, it would require a TON of compression ...

please expand?

thanks
t4d

Oh, sorry for the confusion. They are wired up to a 5-way switch, with the 2 and 4 positions being SPLIT modes.

 

[tone4days]

Re: REVIEW: DiMarzio Humbucker From Hell pups

right right - figured as much ...

but how is it that one split coil gives the same output as both coils together in series?

 

[Dankerella]

Re: REVIEW: DiMarzio Humbucker From Hell pups

I don't want my bridge p/up to sound anything that even resembles a single coil. I don't even use the bridge single coil in my strat for much. It's too hot and bright for cleans, yet too weak and weird sounding for overdrive. But that's cool you found the one for you - congrats.

 

[yngwie84]

After years of trying to find the right neck pickup,
I fell in love with the humbucker from hell and came across your review
so I'm thinking of putting one in the bridge position (I currently have a Tone Zone but I was thinking of putting a Screamin Demon before that)
your review is from 2008, did you find a better combination of pickups for this kind of sound (Yngwie 80s strat shred things)?
Thanks in advance!

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Always wanted to try a HFH in neck position. I do like the Jazz neck, the Duncan that's probably closest to the HFH in character.

Just speculating, but I expect the HFH uses an extreme version of the dual-resonance thing - equal turns, but of different wire gauges.
In this case I suspect it's unusually heavy wire on one bobbin and rather thin on the other. That would explain the minimal volume loss when split.

Plenty of pickups use thinner than 42ga these days, but AFAIK not many go thicker.

One exception (I think) is the wonderful El Rayo humbucker from Jason Lollar.
Fabulous at the neck, fat sounding yet rather singlecoily in its attack & clarity/definition. Haven't tried the bridge but I'm sure it's equally great.
They have unusually low DCRs so I imagine they're wound with thicker-than-average wire.

 

[Inflames626]

I've been curious about this pickup as I have never used DiMarzios. I thought about starting out with a PAF Pro/Super Distortion as a baseline, tried and true set, but really something like a Super 2 in the bridge seems more my speed (I hate low mids).

Then I thought perhaps the HFH might be more my thing, as I like a bright, articulate neck pickup, with the EMG 60 as my baseline for comparison.

Thoughts would be appreciated as I really am clueless regarding DiMarzios.

 

[GuitarStv]

I've been curious about this pickup as I have never used DiMarzios. I thought about starting out with a PAF Pro/Super Distortion as a baseline, tried and true set, but really something like a Super 2 in the bridge seems more my speed (I hate low mids).

Then I thought perhaps the HFH might be more my thing, as I like a bright, articulate neck pickup, with the EMG 60 as my baseline for comparison.

Thoughts would be appreciated as I really am clueless regarding DiMarzios.

Most of Dimarzio's stuff seems targeted towards higher gain players than me . . . I tend to lean towards brigher, lower output sounds. Both the HFH and Bluesbucker seem like interesting ideas though. As I understand it, the Bluesbucker is an attempt to make a p90 sound from a humbucker, and the HFH is an attempt to make a single coil sound from a humbucker.