Some great news came my way the other day. Peter Hodgson, the hip guitarist who writes the I Heart Guitar blog, is being featured on DiMarzio Inc., maker of some of the best guitar pickups in the world. They're using clips of his guitar playing on their website to showcase their John Petrucci (Dream Theater) signature pickups, the Crunch Lab 7 and LiquFire 7.
He used an Ibanez RG620 7-string guitar for the clips! That sounds like it's definitely worth a mention on the ol' Jemsite blog, no?
Besides Petrucci's work on the new Dream Theater album, Peter is the first to use these pickups on a publicly available recording.
You can hear his clips by heading to the DiMarzio Inc. site and going to the 7 String section, then clicking on the link for the sounds on each pickup's page.
DiMarzio asked Peter to provide samples after he reviewed the new pickups for his website. You can find the review here.