New Dimarzio Pickup

I wish Larry DiMarzio wasn't such a dick about the double-cream thing. I really like DiMarzio pickups, and they are really reasonably priced, but that dickishness keeps me from buying more. That being said, I literally just plopped a DiMarzio into my LP Special yesterday and would be very interested in these new ones.
 
gball said:
I wish Larry DiMarzio wasn't such a dick about the double-cream thing. I really like DiMarzio pickups, and they are really reasonably priced, but that dickishness keeps me from buying more. That being said, I literally just plopped a DiMarzio into my LP Special yesterday and would be very interested in these new ones.
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Me to.
 
I have a 1980 DiMarzio PAF double cream sounds nothing like a real Gibson PAF it could be wax potted not sure never took it apart
I did own a real 1957 Les Paul Standard mint Paid $36,000.00 sold $90,000.00 one of the best sounding Les Paul's I have played
and had the pickups cloned 4 sets have them in two Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul Standards they sound real huge improvement
over the stock Gibson Burst Buckers now I just got a set of the 1959 Gibson PAF double white the ohm reading is so close to the 1957
clones I had made see no reason to change them.

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I have five from the sevemties that were pulled out of guitars sitting in a tool box drawer. Got a couple of Shaws that also don't do anything for me in the same drawer.
 
DirtySteve said:
I never met a DiMarzio I liked and I've tried a bunch of them. I was always disappointed so I quit trying years ago. If someone gave me a set I'd give them away...oh yeah, now that I think about it that's already happened. lol

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I remember in the '80s I got a set of DiMarzio Fred pickups. The magnets were the size of peas and the feedback was terrible. Removed and returned I believe.
 
It's amazing how over the years not very many pickups stand out.

With Gibson putting out the price tag maybe because of the used market prices.The very reason I will never own any of the sought after pickups they made

The high power pickups just don't have the tone of the older lower powered ones.
I guess that the amp / speaker / effects are part of that equation.
 
ibmorjamn said:
It's amazing how over the years not very many pickups stand out.

With Gibson putting out the price tag maybe because of the used market prices.The very reason I will never own any of the sought after pickups they made

The high power pickups just don't have the tone of the older lower powered ones.
I guess that the amp / speaker / effects are part of that equation.
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And the player.
 
DirtySteve said:
There are so many good pickup winders out there these days I just can't stand it that SD and Dimarzio are all anyone recommends.
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There are a few , like the ones you just got. For instance another one I heard about years ago is throbak. $500 I think for one. I never looked beyond the price.
 
DirtySteve said:
There are so many good pickup winders out there these days I just can't stand it that SD and Dimarzio are all anyone recommends.
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I know there are a lot of riders and good ones. I have no idea why the older Gibson pickups sounded so good and when they did, why change them?

It just seems like certain players found ones they liked and held on to them.
Toni Iomi , Ted Nugent,Angus Young , Early Van Halen he took it out of a ES 335 rumor has it anyway.Michael Schenker had a T Top in the 70's "V"
 
DirtySteve said:
I never met a DiMarzio I liked and I've tried a bunch of them. I was always disappointed so I quit trying years ago. If someone gave me a set I'd give them away...oh yeah, now that I think about it that's already happened. lol

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My thoughts exactly.

I'll say that I do like the X2N in certain applications.
But outside of that... Dimarzio's are just Boring vanilla pickups to me.
 
There's so many small shops spinning pickups, you can pretty much throw a rock and hit two. I love to support the small shops for sure, but it's hard to find a consistent winder. I found the Voodoo brand a few years back but they already folded up all of a sudden. I haven't been a fan of Dimarzio for a long time, but I'd be interested in trying them again. My experience with them is back in the day when I really didn't know what to listen for.
 
Early 70s DiMarzio Super D.Sounds great.Hookup wires are twice the guage of todays 4 wire hookups.No flimsy ass wires on this thing. Paid 150$ for it 5 years ago. This is made way better than most new Duncans, ect. Why i always buy single wire hookups with braided grounds.Screenshot_20240329-145106_Gallery.jpg
 
Ghostman said:
There's so many small shops spinning pickups, you can pretty much throw a rock and hit two. I love to support the small shops for sure, but it's hard to find a consistent winder. I found the Voodoo brand a few years back but they already folded up all of a sudden. I haven't been a fan of Dimarzio for a long time, but I'd be interested in trying them again. My experience with them is back in the day when I really didn't know what to listen for.
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You might want to check out Wolfetone or PlanetTone pickups. Both those guys are good and will answer any questions if you e-mail them. I think they both wind awesome pickups. And they're consistent, I have multiples from both bought at different times and they sound the same.
 
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