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Old 04-20-2006, 10:23 PM
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DiMarzios


I'm going to stick some new Dimarzios In my alder bodied pacifica.

At first I was Thinking Steve's Special/Red Velvet/Air Norton,

But having bought a BC/AN7 combo recently, I think I'l like to try a differnt flavour pickup set.

I'm considering Mo'Jo/Red Velvet/PAF joe, Tone Zone/Red Velvet/Air Norton, or a combination of any of these pickups with a PAF-PRO.

What I'm after is an articulate complex rythem sound from the Bridge, with nice cleans, and for the Neck, It's either defo either an AN/PAF family pickup, I'm just not sure which as I've heard good things about both, and coments would be great about that lol.

Anyway, and sonic Evaluation / ideas, would be great

Thanks a bunch,

Spikey
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Old 04-20-2006, 10:36 PM
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Re: DiMarzios


what guitar do you plan to drop em in?

I think the tone zone is an excellent rock pickup but I think the output is a bit over the top.. too distorted. It's still useable though.

steve's special is great if you have a midrange heavy amp like a mesa. it's scooped sounding. it sounds heavy and doesn't get muddy.

I'll let other talk about the air norton...
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Old 04-20-2006, 10:56 PM
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Re: DiMarzios


air norton is a pretty good pickup, tone zone is good also

but if i were you, i'd go with the mo joe/paf joe for sure, i'd give that a shot
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Old 04-20-2006, 11:22 PM
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Re: DiMarzios


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what guitar do you plan to drop em in?

I think the tone zone is an excellent rock pickup but I think the output is a bit over the top.. too distorted. It's still useable though.

steve's special is great if you have a midrange heavy amp like a mesa. it's scooped sounding. it sounds heavy and doesn't get muddy.

I'll let other talk about the air norton...
A Alder Bodied yamaha pacfica with a rosewood fingerboard.

Curantly it has a seymour duncan invader in the bridge, nothing else, and I've blocked the trem with some wood, But I fancy the full dimarzio set in it instead.

The amp I'm currantly playing through is a cheap marshall MG-50, which isn't particularly good, but that's getting changed in the future.

For the AN, I'm totaly familiar with it's middy/bassy dist and jazzy clean sound, and having just bought a 7 string version, would be totaly content to have it in the 6, but I've heard a lot of players say the PAF-PRO offers a sufficiently different sound to make it worth a look, so I'm really interested in player comparisons between those too, and the PAF-Joe respectfully.

For the bridge, what I'm really after is a nice tight articulate rythem tone. I don't play much lead from the bridge, so I've considered the Steve's special, but having looked at it's scooped sound I have a fear that it'll sound too thin.

Highish output would be preferable, but really what I want is for it to cut through and be clear, then sing on the neck, but have some nice well defined split options to combine with the Red velvet.

Wiring will most likely take the form of:

1) Bridge / Inner Bridge + Red Velvet / Red Velvet / Inner Bridge + Inner Neck / Neck - (5 settings)

2) Bridge / Inner Bridge + Inner Neck / Bridge + Neck / Red Velvet / Neck - (5 settings)

or

3) A push pull on the Humbuckers, and another push pull to turn the Red Velvet on/off and this final Wiring
Bridge / Inner Bridge + Inner Neck (strat) / Bridge + Neck / Outer Bridge + Outer Neck (tele) / Neck (14 Settings)

The Red Velvet would probably have it's own volume pot control too, so I could access it by itself, bringing the amount of settings I could get up to 15.

Combination 3 is most likely an overkill wire job, but would be nice for recording in the studio for Clean passages and harmonic and complex rythem.

The idea really is that this guitar will just be a jamming thing at home for getting an array of sounds and recording them, rather than giging it live.

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Old 04-21-2006, 03:06 AM
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Re: DiMarzios


Personally I would say that your choice of single coil and neck pickups are excellent and you really can't go wrong either way. But if you want a complex rhythm sound from the bridge with good cleans then you're going to want to avoid the high output pickups all together and look for something a bit more medium output. So the bridge pickups that I would suggest would be either the Mo Joe or the Air Zone.
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Old 04-21-2006, 07:36 AM
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Re: DiMarzios


Having looked at the Air Zone, I have a sneaky feeling it would be a less middy less haromically ritch version of the Tone zone,

The Mo'joe, on the other hand looks very nice with it's bumped power from the fred and such. If it still has the tight/bright high E.Q. of the fred then I think it'll be the one to go for..

I think I'm going for the MO'JOE / RV / PAF JOE setup, thanks, It should keep the outputs ballanced and the sound where I want it

Spikey
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Old 04-21-2006, 08:47 AM
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Re: DiMarzios


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Having looked at the Air Zone, I have a sneaky feeling it would be a less middy less haromically ritch version of the Tone zone,
That's description is actually correct I think. I've heard clips of Air zone and it isn't as upfront as the tone zone. the tone zone is more powerful, gives better backdrop, you will be heard. the sound punches in the face. air zone seems more polite.
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