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The Pickup Place / Re: Dimarzio Injector - also for vintage sounds

« on: June 29, 2017, 03:33:28 PM »

These pickups are awesome, they do vintage sounds so well. Through a Fender amp they are magic, a little fatter than a vintage wind, a little warmer but I've never had anyone say "your Strat sounds like a$$ man...". The neck is sweet and round sounding and the bridge is smooth and bright but not too bright, it's actually usable on a clean sound. Great for open soundscape with delay and reverb.

Through Marshall amps they have enough output to actually drive the amp and the bridge doesn't cut your ears off with the high end. For best results I always use a boost to match the output of a humbucker and classic rock is easy as pie.

Through Mesa amps you can get brutal crushing tone out of it (bridge), you have to use a boost of some sort to hit the first preamp tube and I will roll the tone control off to around 7 (bridge). The neck pickup through a high gain amp is kind of a cross between a PAF and a single coil. The tone is more like the PAF while the pick attack still has single coil attributes. It is definitely my favourite pickup for high gain neck pickup lead playing.

These are definitely the most versatile Strat pickups I've ever heard and I love playing metal with a stock looking Strat and getting comments on how my guitar sounds that way.

Where they really shine is on clean and bluesy sounds. But then again they sound great through everything. A boost is a must for classic rock and metal though.



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The Pickup Place / Re: Neck Single to match Illuminator bridge

« on: June 22, 2017, 08:46:10 PM »

I haven't posted here much but I have gotten great results with a Virtual Solo in the neck with a high power bridge pickup. Very sweet sounding and it has the power to match well in terms of gain.


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The Pickup Place / Re: Chopper in Bridge + Area 61's in Neck & Middle. Help!

« on: March 31, 2017, 04:01:37 PM »

Hi everyone,

Just wondering if I could get some help on this.  As the subject says I just swapped out pickups on my strat for a chopper in the bridge and area 61's in the middle and neck position.

I know nothing about wiring pickups at all to be honest but assumed it would work as I got the idea from seeing one of Mark Lettieri's guitar being set up this way. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJlQO7IhSwf/?taken-by=mjlettieri

I got it back from one guy who said it couldn't be done properly.  Everything sounds fine besides in the position between the bridge and middle pickup has this real out of phase sound.  Like it's really thin and has a huge loss in gain. 

I was wondering if you guys have any clue what I could do?  I've brought it to a new guy who's supposed to be the best in the area but he's kind of unsure also. 

Any help would be hugely appreciated.

Lol these guitar techs must suck, +1 to the above, it's a relatively simple setup, I've wired in the same for a friend. You do have to switch the wires on the rail pickup...


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