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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: Mo'Joe

« Last post by HeyNorton! on December 27, 2023, 07:34:45 PM »

Again, late to the party by what,  17 years? Lol.

Again, all the others before me nailed it.

What can I say that hasn't already been?

It's high end and harmonics are very controllable by pickup height.  I was very lukewarm about it until I lowered it down a bit and set to adjusting the tilt and pole heights.  Set properly, this is one HELL of a versatile hot rodded paf type.  I can play anything with this setup.

It not dactivator tight, but it's not loose either.  It's right at the point where I can control that texture with my hands. 

I wonder how a 250k vol pot would do?  Or a 500k with a 250k tone? 

I really like this and it's combo mate, the paf joe.

They work really well together.  It appears that Satch likes the same things in a pickup as I do.  Cool!

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: PAF Joe

« Last post by HeyNorton! on December 27, 2023, 07:21:56 PM »

Okaaaayyyyy, I'm a bit late to the game on this one.

What a freaking neck pickup!

I'll mirror what has been said previously.

1. The attack is somewhat dull.
2. It is a bright pickup
3. It is super sensitive to touch and gain.
4. I've noticed that it has a touch of strat single coil to it.

If you take all of the above points, it works really well for a neck pickup.

The dulled attack offsets and balances the brightness of it. 

It works really well with the mo'joe btw. They are both kinda the same bright, so adjusting eq, tone, gain and guitar volume for one means the other will sound good too.

This is a blues to hard rock pickup without a doubt.
Clean to mid gain, it bright.
With heavy gain, it becomes clear and very smooth/liquidy in that air norton kinda way.

It's not as height sensitive as the mo'joe. That one is interesting.

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The Pickup Place / Man, I love dimarzios!

« Last post by HeyNorton! on December 27, 2023, 07:10:46 PM »

Name another manufacturer that makes such a vast variety of pickups.

Duncan has a ton of vintage stuff, but are limited in the mid and high gain areas.

Nobody else comes close.

Dimarzio has 67 different humbuckers!

All my best sounding guitars are loaded with them.

I run a 36th set, a set of breeds, a set of transitions, and a mo'joe/ paf joe combo.

There is no dead weight there at all. 

I just got the last 2 recently and man, are they all killer!

Between harmonic design, lace pickups, and dimarzio, I can always find something that'll work for me, though it's all dimarzio when it comes to humbuckers.

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

« Last post by buddroyce on December 27, 2023, 01:42:37 PM »

That's amazing! Thanks for sharing man!

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

« Last post by nienturi on December 25, 2023, 12:51:05 AM »

Hello,

I prepared my humble Dimarzio Al DiMeola Neck review on my new blog.

https://www.tonejourney.com/post/dimarzio-aldimeola-dp201

Hope you like it?

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News & New Guys / Happy Holidays 2023!

« Last post by buddroyce 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 / Re: PG-13 Middle in Bridge

« Last post by darkbluemurder on December 15, 2023, 03:17:45 AM »

Not irrelevant at all because you gave the context in which you used the pickup. That is always helpful. Many thanks for sharing.

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The Pickup Place / Re: PG-13 Middle in Bridge

« Last post by gregr on December 14, 2023, 12:49:44 PM »

I generally find well-produced YouTube videos quite helpful. Even some in-the-room recordings with a cell phone can be good since they can give you an idea about the midrange and top-end. However, demos of a pickup in a mix are vitally important to me, and as such some videos haven’t been very helpful, so it’s been a mixed bag.

The specs on the DP240 looked pretty good so I tried one. I thought I had it sounding pretty good, but after only one rehearsal I pulled it. More on this later.

Apparently Paul Gilbert lowers the pickup in order to clear the way for picking. So in order to boost its output to make up for it, the pickup uses neodymium. With this in mind I don’t think demos will translate well into the bridge position with the pickup higher. My guess is that it might sound sharp in some situations. This can certainly be a good thing as I’m betting it will cut really well. Of course I could be completely off the mark and will defer on the matter.

This leads me back to my anecdotal experience with the DP240. I found the clarity and top end woefully lacking. I found it to be murky in general. I like hearing my pick attack, and as a lead player in a hard rock band I need a neck pickup to be able to cut through. The DP240 could deliver neither, though I only use a mid-gain amp which I boost with an overdrive for solos. The guitar I had it in isn’t particularly dark, though it is full-bodied. I was using it against an Area Hot T which may go to the pairing argument.

It could simply be that minibuckers don’t work for me in general, I don’t know. I will say that the DP241 worked well in the neck with a Chopper T. Perhaps this is because the pickup has enough midrange to push through and may do well with high gain amplifiers. It certainly delivers a nice full clean tone as well as an excellent pushed clean tone. It also splits well, especially if you add in some of the second coil with a partial split in order to help fill the tone out.

Anyhow, I replaced the DP240 with an EJ Custom Neck and haven’t looked back. This might be totally irrelevant but I thought I’d share.

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The Pickup Place / Re: PG-13 Middle in Bridge

« Last post by darkbluemurder on December 14, 2023, 04:20:53 AM »

But as you know some pickup pairings just click, and some just don't,

That is true, and it is also guitar dependent.

and it's hard to tell until one tries. 

Indeed. You can read as much as you want about a certain pickup and hear any youtube-demo you come across but at some point you have to take a leap of faith and put the pickup in your guitar, play it through your rig and see whether you like it or not. If you don't then at least you have a baseline.

Cheers Stephan

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The Pickup Place / Re: PG-13 Middle in Bridge

« Last post by Ampli_Fuzz on December 14, 2023, 03:57:26 AM »

Thanks, DBM 

Yes, in theory it would work. But as you know some pickup pairings just click, and some just don't, and it's hard to tell until one tries. The PG-13 Neck would seem the most obvious choice, but it looks somewhat dark from the chart and from the Gilbert demo videos (which isn't saying a lot, and I've found another video where it sounds pretty great in fact).

It's rare to see Ray so pumped about a pickup, and if they also happen to work great together (both when switching from one to another and used together in the middle position) it could be a pretty killer combo.