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DimarzioForum.Com => The Pickup Place => Topic started by: chacheu on December 09, 2018, 07:47:15 PM
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Bought a Music Man St Vincent signature guitar with three Dimarzio “custom” mini-humbuckers. This is the first and only guitar I’ve owned with mini-hums. After doing some research, it seems there are two types of mini-hums. One built like a miniature PAF with adjustable pole pieces, and the Firebird type with a no pole pieces visible through the cover. The St Vincent pickups have the Firebird cover; however, if you look at Dimarzio’s website they show a minihimbucker with a Firebird cover but describe it as a PAF type sound. I’m confused. Does anyone know what style of pickup is in the St Vincent model.
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The pole pieces are just part of the same design. If you look at the DiMarzio website under MINI when you look up pickups, you'll find the DP240-DP243 models. The first two have no poles showing the latter have one set of screw poles poking through the cover like a humbucker. They're the same size and you can retrofit any of those in your guitar.
The ones in your guitar are likely custom wound versions of the DP240 and DP241.
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Congratulations if these are the DP 240 in the neck and middle position. These are great pickups.
Cheers Stephan
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Meanwhile I picked up a set of these pickups. Neck and middle are the DP-168, bridge is probably the same as DP-198, even though it has a different model code on it (no DP-XXX). At least it matches it spec-wise.