Installed a Duncan Dimebucker in my OLP Benji!

[B2D]

Behold!!! Muhuhuhuhahahahahaha!!!!

Just installed this bad boy and spent about an hour plowing through various metal/rock riffs with this. I like it! I've never actually played with one of these before. i really dig it. It gets the late Dimebag tone to a T of course. Other than that, It reminds me of a big Hot Rail with more output and slightly less mids with bigger bass and slightly more treble bite. Loud, tight, defined and gainy is what this pickup does. It reacts very well to changes on the volume knob and pick attack; it's a very dynamic pickup, and I expected it to be more compressed than it is. Very cool. It sounds OK split, and I don't know what it sounds like in parallel yet because I must've made a bad joint wiring it to the mini-toggle and now it's a kill switch in that position. I'll fix it later.

I kind of uncovered a suprise/secret weapon/sleeper hit tone with this pickup, too. I found that if I put the volume and tone both back to about 5 and dialed up a clean tone with some compression on it, it made for a great chicken pickin'/country western tone with plenty of bounce and pluck. The midrange turned out to be just right for that sort of thing, and it's real fun to just drop the pick and go at it like that. Metal tones with a Southern accent... just like Dimebag!

I liked the D-Sonic I had in there and this pickup does a great job for this guitar as well, but the reason I'm keeping the Dimebucker is because it's so much more FUN to play. The tone is inspiring to me for some reason. It's fun to play and riff on and just enjoy the sound of. And that's always the mark of a keeper!

P.S. Anyone want a used D-Sonic (F-Spaced, white)?

 

[walleye]

what wood was the benji made out of, do you know?
thats not offtopic by the way, just interested to know whether the pickup's nice and dime-ish in guitars other than mahogany

 

[Jack FFR1846]

It's definately not mahogany. (I had one just like this). I'd guess poplar. It's very light. Good job bringing a single hum guitar alive, man!

 

[megaroel]

looks cool. im a big dime fan.

 

[kissmyaxe]

most random 12th fret inlay ever....looks bad asss with the dime though \m/

 

[B2D]

what wood was the benji made out of, do you know?
thats not offtopic by the way, just interested to know whether the pickup's nice and dime-ish in guitars other than mahogany

It sounds and weighs like poplar. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, of course. It definitely has that late Dime sound to a T either way though.

 

[Sub1 Zero]

I'd guess that pickup to sound good in poplar, although I prefer the SH4 and SH6 myself, as Duncans go. Looks sweet!

 

[Voo]

the dimebucker is just a really nice hot pickup I have it paired with a jazz in the neck, great combo

 

[Spudmurphy]

That looks a great little conversion - nice one !!

Thought I'd say that there may be a misconception that mahogany is a heavy wood - it can be but you can also get it light weight too. I had a tele made for me in the 80's - body mahogany/ebony neck and it really wasn't at all heavy.

 

[Sub1 Zero]

Thought I'd say that there may be a misconception that mahogany is a heavy wood - it can be but you can also get it light weight too. I had a tele made for me in the 80's - body mahogany/ebony neck and it really wasn't at all heavy.

That is very true, and the misconception probably exists because LP's are so boat-anchor heavy. Neither of my Explorers are very heavy at all, nor are my lead guitarist's ESP's, both of which are all mahogany with maple caps.

 

[Spudmurphy]

That is very true, and the misconception probably exists because LP's are so boat-anchor heavy. Neither of my Explorers are very heavy at all, nor are my lead guitarist's ESP's, both of which are all mahogany with maple caps.

Ha +1 on the Les Paul - mines not the heaviest - but uhhhh it's heavy compared to my 'balls!!