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Post by Tony on Jul 22, 2014 14:53:18 GMT
I know that a few people on here are familiar with these pickups.
By any chance does anyone have any recordings in standard/Eb maybe D standard tunings?
As you all know overall I use EMG pickups but I fancy a change and I've exhausted my options elsewhere whilst always overlooking Dimarzio.
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Post by Jimmymoorby on Jul 23, 2014 19:40:09 GMT
I have the d-activator neck in a les paul. I could record some thing but itd only be with a hand held camera :/
For what its worth the neck no better than say emg 81's or much different.
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Post by Tony on Jul 24, 2014 9:10:23 GMT
I'm mainly interested in the bridge. I wouldn't ever use an 81 in the neck personally it would always be the 60a or the JH Neck. I'm not a big fan of ceramic pickups in the neck.
Thanks though.
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Post by MDV on Jul 28, 2014 16:20:24 GMT
Obviously it's one of the many, many 'best of active and passive' pickups.
It just sounds like a reasonably scooped high output passive to me. It's quite cutting in the high mids. Supposedly extremely tight, but I've found it to be less so than a Distortion (which it has a a similar overall balance to, but is less grindy and doesn't have the low mid kick that the distortion has). Basically it wants to be an HDN when it grows up. I don't have mine in any guitar at the moment.
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Post by Tony on Jul 28, 2014 19:41:30 GMT
I think i'll just stick to EMGs and HDNs!
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Post by MDV on Jul 28, 2014 20:01:07 GMT
Correct answer.
I like the distortion as well. Different vibe. Still quite precise, but, well, grindy and kicking.
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Post by Tony on Jul 28, 2014 20:31:05 GMT
I forgot to add the Black Winters too. I expected them to be pretty similar to the Distortion but they're fairly different but with that same grit.
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Post by Davemc on Jul 30, 2014 15:41:25 GMT
Correct answer. I like the distortion as well. Different vibe. Still quite precise, but, well, grindy and kicking. I quite like the distortion for sort of 80s metal rhythm tones, not so fond of it for lead. I think I find that with a lot of the duncans (and probably dimarzio too), they often do one thing really, really well but then are less good for other things. I suppose to a certain extent you could say that about most pickups but it seems especially so with them (or maybe I'm just imagining it... it probably doesn't help that they recommend the JB and tone zone for everything  so they're sort of setting themselves up for a fall from the get-go). I haven't tried the d-activator. |
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Post by MDV on Jul 30, 2014 15:51:21 GMT
Not terribly liking the distortion in this guitar, actually. Palm mutes sounding dull.
I have a d-activator kicking round, and an aftermath, I may see if either of those work better in it.
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Post by MDV on Jul 31, 2014 12:19:45 GMT
Changed my mind. Not that anyone cares. I backed it riiiight off from the strings and now its fine. Good even. I have to use it with my JD10 as a boost to get similar output to the EMGs (at the same distance (3.5mm) its hitting the amp about as hard, a little less maybe), but now its good.
Ultra fucking scooped, but good. It certainly has its place.
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Post by Davemc on Aug 1, 2014 13:16:59 GMT
Robben Ford TGP "Politician" tones, right?
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so they're sort of setting themselves up for a fall from the get-go).