JP6 pups

[shreder75]

does anyone know the EXACT specs on this thing? output, dc resistance, low/mid/treb values??

just curious...before I decide (finally) what I'm gonna do with my steve's special...

thanks!

 

[vexed73]

Just wanted to let you know I really like the Dimarzio Breed.

 

[brettlingle]

Dude just play the guitar!!!

 

[dan desy]

Dude just play the guitar!!!

+1. The second you start thinking, you're in trouble. The pickups are fine. When you can play like John, then you can think about changing the pickups

 

[Roxy]

From the Dimarzio website:

These pickups are only available as original equipment on John's MusicMan guitar. The 6-string neck model is very similar to the Air Norton™. The sound of the bridge pickup resembles the Steve's Special™, although it is not as close. The 7-string Air Norton™ is fairly close to the MusicMan neck pickup, and the Blaze™ bridge model is the closest-sounding available bridge pickup.

*It appears to me that your Steve's Special may not sound that much different than the stock pickup.

 

[jaxadam]

Throw some evos in there. You'll love it. It's exactly what you're looking for.

 

[shreder75]

Throw some evos in there. You'll love it. It's exactly what you're looking for.

dude, that's EXACTLy what I'm doing...LOlL

went to guitar center yesterday..played a couple of ibanezes with dimarzios in them..a JS with a FRED and a JEM with an EVO

I liked the tonality of the fred, but it wasn't hot enough..great harmonics though...

the EVO had the harmonics AND the output I was looking for...both guitars had the pickups way to far away from the strings, but even so, the EVO still sounded plenty hot to me...I'm sure when I raise the poles it'll kikc ass..

and when I emailed dimarzio they told me to slap an EVO in there =-D

eventually I'll probably get an evo neck but I kinda like what's in the JP now...we'll see how they match up...

 

[shreder75]

From the Dimarzio website:

These pickups are only available as original equipment on John's MusicMan guitar. The 6-string neck model is very similar to the Air Norton™. The sound of the bridge pickup resembles the Steve's Special™, although it is not as close. The 7-string Air Norton™ is fairly close to the MusicMan neck pickup, and the Blaze™ bridge model is the closest-sounding available bridge pickup.

*It appears to me that your Steve's Special may not sound that much different than the stock pickup.

yeah, I was havin' the same thought....so I'm returning it to MF (it's in the mail) and gettin' an f spaced Evolution instead

 

[Roxy]

Just curious, did your George Lynch guitar come stock with the Duncan Screamin Demon? I had that pickup in an Ibanez RG560 back around '90. I remember lovin' that pickup, but its been like a decade since I sold that guitar.

John Petrucci is experimenting with a new neck pickup. I forget what he said it was at the Detroit clinic in August. I'm happy with the stock JP's