DiMarzio pickups in the EVH Musicman
J. Thornburg
Does anyone REALLY know if DiMarzio markets a pickup that is the same
(or very similar) to the pickups in my MM EVH. This guitar really
screams. I liked the tone of Duncan pickups more in the past, but
DiMarzio has came out with many pickups since I last used them (my
last on was a dual sound super distortion).
I took measurements of the pickups with my volt/ohm meter. They were
around as follows:
Bridge ~17.2
Neck ~15.4
Those are approximates from memory, so I am not sure I am correct on
the tenths part. Anyhow, the Tone Zone and the Air Zone seem to be
close for the Bridge (resistance wise). Nothing seems to be close for
the neck model. Does anyone have the straight answer or know of a
pickup designed to sound like these. I would like a 4-cond. set for
the wiring options. Does anyone make a clone or sound alike pickup?
Duncan does not seem to have anything in the output ranges of these
pickups. I know much of the tone also comes from the guitar and its
construction.
I did an A/B on the guitar - comparing it to a floyd rose strat (came
with a DiMarzio humbucker) and there was no comparision. The strat
almost sounded like a single coil it sounded so thin in comparison.
This disappointed me because I love Fenders. I compaired it to a
LesPaul Classic and it was closer, but still a significant difference.
The closest I came was my old beat up Ibanez Roadstar II RG440 (strat
like neck and body shape) with an edge (floyd) trem and a Duncan
Original Parallel axis trembucker in the bridge. It was really quite
close through the 5150 test amp. It was not as close from my Fender
Super Reverb and effects at home. The EVH pickup has much more
resistance than the Orig. Parallel Axis. The EVH probably has more
winding and more output.
I want to modify one of my guitars or build one to sound like my EVH.
I would address the things I don't like about the guitar. I would
like ideally the same pickups with 4 cond wiring, wired to a 5-way
megaswitch for tonal variety. I would like a tone and a volume. I
don't like the 3-way toggle near as much as the 5-way strat-type
switches. The EVH neck is great, but I wonder what it would feel like
with a compound radius, rosewood board, and larger frets (the EVH
seems to have tall medium sized frets). I like the feel of floating
trem setups more, but wonder if the tonal qualities would greatly
suffer. I don't like push/pull pots in my guitars because the motion
is not natural and is awkward when switching.
Comments?
Jeff Talley
J. Thornburg wrote:
> Does anyone REALLY know if DiMarzio markets a pickup that is the same
> (or very similar) to the pickups in my MM EVH.
I think it's a Tone Zone and a Humbucker from Hell in the neck.--
Outt..
Jeff.
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Al Koz
>J. Thornburg wrote:
>> Does anyone REALLY know if DiMarzio markets a pickup that is the same
>> (or very similar) to the pickups in my MM EVH.
>I think it's a Tone Zone and a Humbucker from Hell in the neck.--
>Outt..
I had an EVH and called Dimarzio a few times to ask about the pickups.
I was told that the bridge was very close to a Tone Zone, and the neck
was close to a PAF Pro. I put a Tone Zone in it just because I had
one laying around. I thought it sounded different than the stock
pickup. They were simular but the stock pickup seemed to have a
little less output and more presence, it seemed to have less of the
overtones of the Tone Zone that I liked so much.
Just my opinion, Al.