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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: Everything you ever wanted to know about the Norton

« on: May 22, 2009, 03:36:29 PM »

The Norton is great when you want that 80's brown sound feel to it. It's not 100% EVH's signature Brown Sound but it's definitely in that ball park. I personally find that it's got that EVH vibe along with some older Joe Satriani tones on. You can pretty much nail the tone Joe had for Surfing with the alien with the norton. Must be the similarities to the Fred that gives it that.

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / READ: ABOUT THIS SECTION

« on: May 21, 2009, 01:15:04 AM »

Hello and welcome

This section is an open forum for members to contribute whatever they know about a particular favourite pickup. While there are plenty of sites (actually just one or two) that offer reviews of a particular pickup, this section was created so that you can educate the rest of us on what you know about a particular pickup you have plenty of experience with. Feel free to include any sound clips or video demonstrations you may have of yourself demo'ing the said pickup. (NOTE: Sound clips and Youtube videos linked here are a GREAT way to promote yourself and your band! Just don't abuse it!).

I know this section will be quite small at first with just a handful of pickups, but with your help and experience we can hopefully one day as a community, compile info on all the DiMarzio's out there! So if a thread hasn't been started about a pickup you want to put your input into, feel free to start one

Best Regards,

Budd
Founder and Administrator
DiMarzioForum.Com

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The Pickup Place / Re: Explain to me the Tone Zone

« on: April 17, 2009, 09:53:41 PM »

I was thinking about a TZ for my Les Paul. Could I just turn down the bass?

yep.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Explain to me the Tone Zone

« on: April 16, 2009, 05:23:54 PM »

I have seen the ToneZone get the "muddy" rap before and I have to ask myself a couple of questions which are:

1.  Did the user adjust the height of the pickup
2.  Did the user adjust the screws on the pickup
3. and more importantly, did the user re-eq his amp? (ex. turned down the GAIN)

On another pickup forum the Tone Zone gets this very same bad rap only to find out that the person on the other forum  had a dual recto, with the gain on full and pushing it with a boss mega distortion pedal.  My response to that user was that I could get a 62 strat to sound like mud with those settings.  Too many folks believe that the tonal heavens will open and angels will sing by just swapping out pickups and not adjusting the amp and effects (if any).

You know, you hit the nail right on the head with that. Although it's not for everyone, the Tone Zone is definitely a pickup that's requires quite a bit of work to really dial in at times but once you get it to sound good, it sounds great. That's why it's still my #1 goto pickup when I don't know what to stick in a guitar.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Explain to me the Tone Zone

« on: April 15, 2009, 09:07:01 PM »

I thought he stopped wiring his pickups in parallel when he moved on from the Super Distortion to the paf pro.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Do you remember the "Fred Lite"

« on: April 14, 2009, 06:50:46 PM »

Wow it's been a loooooooooong time since I late heard anyone mention the Fred Lite. It was used in the Ibanez FGM 300 in the neck position with a "Paf Pro Lite" in the bridge position. I think it was described as a Fred and a Paf Pro with less string pull from a decrease in the magnetic field (ref: 1994 Ibanez Catalog), so it's probably just the Fred and the PAF Pro with the air bucker technology before they started using the "Airbucker" terminology. I don't think these ever became actual models outside of being models for the FGM300.

I remember seeing somewhere that Dimarzio has stated that the "Norton Lite" on the original Ibanez JPM100 was actually the Air Norton before it was released, if the Fred lite and the Paf Pro lite were to be released, it'd likely be called the Air Fred and Air Paf Pro.

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: Everything you ever wanted to know about the Norton

« on: April 03, 2009, 11:14:32 AM »

Thank you for the info page Nick. I probably won't sticky this one just yet. I guess I should probably add the description and say that it's got the sweet smooth distortion that makes the Duncan JB so popular but has better bottom end (at least in my opinion) and doesn't have the annoying honkiness.

It's also got that 80's hair metal / old school Van Halen vibe if that's what your going for. ie. Your ideal tone is lots of smooth sounding mids, polished top end and nice tight bottom end (kinda like your run way super models of the day).

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The Pickup Place / Re: DiMarzio Pickups FAQ

« on: March 14, 2009, 10:10:22 AM »

Thanks for maintaining the FAQ.

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News & New Guys / Re: Pickup Wire Color Codes

« on: February 27, 2009, 10:10:19 PM »

the Dimarzio/IBZ pickups should be. The stock ibanez pickups I'll have to add.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Air Norton T vs. Chopper T

« on: February 11, 2009, 02:41:27 PM »

Any reason to buy another guitar is always a good reason

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The Pickup Place / Re: PETITION TO DIMARZIO: PLEASE BRING BACK THE VIRTUAL PAF SET!

« on: December 31, 2008, 01:16:17 PM »

Bump...

Bud, is there any way we can sticky this?

Ask and it shall be done

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The Pickup Place / Re: PETITION TO DIMARZIO: PLEASE BRING BACK THE VIRTUAL PAF SET!

« on: December 28, 2008, 12:10:10 PM »

As much as I like the Paf 36th, I do believe that they should bring back the VPaf and VHPaf pickups as well. I don't see why they can't just offer it as a custom ordered pickup. You're getting my vote on this. If I do make it to NAMM this January I'll definitely ask the guys at Dimarzio about it.

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The Pickup Place / Re: DiMarzio Pickups FAQ

« on: November 30, 2008, 09:54:15 PM »

Thanks for maintaining this FAQ CityofBlindingLights. Thanks for reminding me on that EQ chart. I'm still trying to work out some kinks.. actually it's more like working out a more usable interface. I actually forgot about it for a bit with my recent infux of projects.

No, it's cool man. Take your time, trust me when I say I of all people understand how little free time a person can have, I don't think I've gotten more than three hours of sleep in a night for the past two and a half weeks. Take your time, there's no rush man.

You're starting to sound like me with the amount of sleep you get. My days start around 2:30-3am and end around 10-11pm on a consistent basis. Rest assured though, I *WILL* get it done.

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The Pickup Place / Re: DiMarzio Pickups FAQ

« on: November 30, 2008, 08:46:12 AM »

Thanks for maintaining this FAQ CityofBlindingLights. Thanks for reminding me on that EQ chart. I'm still trying to work out some kinks.. actually it's more like working out a more usable interface. I actually forgot about it for a bit with my recent infux of projects.

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The Pickup Place / Re: DiMarzio Pickups FAQ

« on: August 13, 2008, 10:31:58 PM »

Thanks for putting together this FAQ. I've stickied it for everyones benefit

Here's the output chart (I finally moved it over to this site after testing it on my shop site @ brlguitars.com site)
http://www.dimarzioforum.com/pickup_compare/compare.php

I actually have an EQ one on the works that'll hopefully come soon. Actually, it's the same app just with more functionality added.