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The Pickup Place / DiMarzio Granted US Patent For New Cover Shape

« on: June 07, 2024, 07:17:07 PM »

Just saw this in my inbox. It's a patent for a P bass pickup covers but I think it's actually an interesting design.

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DiMarzio, in collaboration with the legendary bassist Billy Sheehan, has invented a new shape and feel for Precision Bass® pickup covers that improves both playability and performance.

Using Billy’s vision for ramp-style surface shapes that minimized all the hard edges from the pickup casing, we've created a more comfortable playing experience. Taking this a step further, we relocated the height adjustment screws so that they are also below the surface of the pickguard, eliminating finger contact (see photo).

A by-product of our newly patented design is a shape that allows the twin hum-canceling coils to be adjusted closer to the strings. A secondary benefit from this is an improvement in both dynamics and string-to-string balance.

To celebrate our new patent, please enjoy 20% off the Relentless™ Middle, Relentless P™, Relentless PJ™ Pair, Sixties P™, and Sixties PJ™ Pair pickups for a limited time only. Use the code RELENTLESS20 at checkout on www.DiMarzio.com.

Precision Bass® is a registered trademark of Fender Musical Instrument Corp., with which DiMarzio, Inc. is not affiliated.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Dimarzio LiquiFire Review

« on: May 08, 2024, 08:30:10 PM »

As always, thank you for your reviews!

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The Pickup Place / Re: Dimarzio PAF 57

« on: April 06, 2024, 09:15:50 PM »

Thanks for the sound bytes!

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The Pickup Place / Re: DiMarzio Transition A4

« on: April 06, 2024, 09:15:14 PM »

I should give that mod a shot! Thanks for sharing man!

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The Pickup Place / Re: Dimarzio Virtual Hot PAF (DP214) Review

« on: January 06, 2024, 09:59:08 PM »

I always loved the Virtual Hot PAF. Thanks for the review man!

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The Pickup Place / Re: My Dimarzio Al DiMeola Neck (DP201) Review

« on: December 27, 2023, 01:42:37 PM »

That's amazing! Thanks for sharing man!

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News & New Guys / Happy Holidays 2023!

« on: December 24, 2023, 08:03:43 PM »

I don't get on here nearly as often but I wanted to make the time to get on and wish you all happy holidays!

Hopefully Santa leaves you some nice new toys!

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The Pickup Place / New Jake Bowen Signature Mirage Pickups

« on: May 15, 2023, 11:57:33 AM »

Just got an e-mail from DiMarzio announcing the new Jake Bowen Signature Mirage pickups.
 
Interesting to see DiMarzio do a Humbucker and single coil sized rail humbucker set. Any one try them out?

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The Pickup Place / Re: Comparison Virtual Hot PAF - Air Norton - Breed Neck - FRED

« on: June 07, 2022, 12:17:49 PM »

Thanks for the review and comparison. Any reason why you stuck with the 250k pots?

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The Pickup Place / Re: Unpotted DiMarzio Pickups

« on: June 07, 2022, 12:14:26 PM »

I haven't heard of anyone ordering anything that hasn't been wax potted.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Crunch Lab / Liquifire on the way!

« on: May 16, 2022, 02:14:50 PM »

That's one hot axe guitar!

I really should get a CL/LF set of my own some time. Every time I install a set for a client, I'm always impressed by how great it sounds. You're right about it getting crunchier with less gain.

Would love to know what you think of it after your rotate the pickup around!

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The Pickup Place / Re: Looking for a bridge pickup

« on: May 04, 2022, 02:48:11 PM »

Welcome to the forum! I'm a bit late but the Steve's Special would be good although another option to consider is the Gravity Storm. Really hard to say for certain as it really depends on your guitar/amp combination but if you're in the US, DiMarzio allows you to exchange the pickup for another one if you find that the Steve's Special isn't cutting it for you.

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Guitar Lounge / Re: Why do the high e (1st) strings always break first?

« on: March 10, 2022, 11:44:27 PM »

I think its the anti corrosion thing elixir uses

Do you know whether they do this on the plain strings, too?

When I used to sell Elixir strings, my sales rep literally told me the plain strings are just regular strings. That might have changed as it's been years since I stocked Elixir strings.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Air Zone vs Super Distortion?

« on: March 08, 2022, 02:33:23 PM »

I'm reading this and the first thing I'm thinking is how the Super Distortion sound with the Air mod?

Between the SD and the AZ, the best way I can describe the two is the SD is tighter with more crunch while the AZ is bigger with more fuzz. If anything the AZ is friendlier sounding and works great as a wall of distortion supporting a singer while the SD is more aggressive sounding.

Another option to throw into the mix is the Transition. It's very similar to the AZ but with a tighter more focused bottom end. You can think of it like an AZ after it's done a whackload of squats and booty workouts.

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The Pickup Place / Re: MORE color options for DiMarzio 7-string models

« on: March 08, 2022, 02:23:59 PM »

Hey all, Thank you for finally having me first off, it took forever to get the confirmation email...

But I am curious as to what is DiMarzio's deal with why they don't do more color options for the 7-string models... and right off the bay, the colors that come to mind are pink, the green & yellow (like on the Ibanez UV777GR), and the chrome bobbins like on the UV77SVR (Silver, from the 3 Passion and Warfare anniversary models a few years ago...)...

I've since found out that apparently you can & someone has ordered the green & yellow combo for a UV70 Premium Universe, but that "there hasn't been enough of a demand for the chrome bobbin 7-string models" per thier tech via an email... And I'm sure that pink would still be a hard NO if inquired...

So does anybody else want DiMarzio to start making and offering more of the 7-string models in these colors and actually offer them on thier website like they do the 6-string counterparts???

Hello and welcome!! Sorry it took forever for you to get your registration e-mail. It turned out that our e-mails got rejected or filtered as spam by some service providers. Our server is hosted on a network that happened to have some other servers that were compromised and sending spam. It's like one or two neighbours bringing down the whole neighbourhood. Thankfully I found a solution to get around this problem and I'm happy to have you here!

The demand for 7 string models have always lagged behind their 6 string counterparts so funky colours are always a bit of a hard sell and tend to sit on shelves for a very long time. It's been a while since I last checked but weren't custom bobbin combinations available as a custom order through DiMarzio directly?