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The Pickup Place / My Dimarzio Cruiser Neck Review

« on: September 02, 2025, 06:28:02 AM »

Hello,

This is my Dimarzio Cruiser Neck review. Hope you like it;

https://www.tonejourney.com/post/dimarzio-cruiser-review

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The Pickup Place / Re: 1990s B5 bridge humbucker

« on: July 23, 2025, 09:30:46 AM »

Well the one I'm talking about has a classic pole pieces configurations, no double row allen key type ones.
It could be a Tonezone, from visuals and the DC resistance, but with black baseplate an B 5 stamped in ... ?
Other than that I am out of ideas :-)

You are right.

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The Pickup Place / Re: 1990s B5 bridge humbucker

« on: July 22, 2025, 06:55:14 AM »

Does anyone have any infos? It basically looks like a black EVH custom with black back, and  "B 5" stamped on it. It measures 17,2k and is F-spaced.

May it be "Breed"?

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The Pickup Place / Re: My NORTON Review

« on: July 16, 2025, 06:51:51 AM »

The Norton works great in a guitar that has a lot of natural lows, like a Les Paul or PRS Singlecut. It pairs well with the Liquifire in the neck.

I have a set neck guitar with 25" scale and warm tone. I will swap its custom pearly gates into Norton soon

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: The Bluesbucker

« on: July 04, 2025, 02:44:34 AM »

I have just uploaded a new review of Bluesbucker. Hope you like it;

https://www.tonejourney.com/post/dimarzio-bluesbucker-dp163-review

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The Pickup Place / Re: 3 New Pickups from Dimarzio: Super PAF, Muscle T's

« on: July 03, 2025, 03:53:45 AM »

A tele neck pickup that can step up to the bridge pickup in output and tonal quality. I find most tele neck pickups dull, weak or both. In fact I never quite understood why Fender did not switch to a strat pickup for the neck position after putting the stratocaster in production but different strokes for different folks I guess.

That's why i always liked Twisted Tele neck pickup.

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The Pickup Place / Re: 3 New Pickups from Dimarzio: Super PAF, Muscle T's

« on: July 02, 2025, 06:40:23 AM »

Super PAF is a nice idea if you want the Super D with a PAF look.
Cheers Stephan

Presented EQ graph is quite different than the SD. So what reminds me is Duncan Custom. It may be a louder Custom.

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The Pickup Place / 3 New Pickups from Dimarzio: Super PAF, Muscle T's

« on: July 02, 2025, 01:44:32 AM »

Dimarzio announced 3 new models;

Super PAF;
https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/high-power/super-paf-ceramic

Muscle T Neck:
https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/standard-tele/muscle-t-neck
Muscle T Bridge;
https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/standard-tele/muscle-t-bridge

What do you say about it?

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The Pickup Place / My Vintage Dimarzio PAF Review

« on: June 20, 2025, 06:16:53 AM »

Hello,

This friday i have published Vintage Dimarzio PAF review.

https://www.tonejourney.com/post/vintage-dimarzio-paf-review

Hope you like it.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Dimarzio Virtual Hot PAF (DP214) Review

« on: May 13, 2025, 01:31:32 AM »

I have this , going to use it in the bridge of my ‘87 Charvel Model 2
( Are my pics viewable?)

I have seen this on reverb but it makes me curious. Mine has nickel silver baseplate. Like this;

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The Pickup Place / Re: Dimarzio Virtual Hot PAF (DP214) Review

« on: May 12, 2025, 09:41:39 AM »

Did they make a specific neck VHP?
Thanks

Nope. There were only Virtual PAF neck

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The Pickup Place / Re: My Dimarzio PAF 36th Anniversary DP223 Review

« on: May 03, 2025, 01:41:48 AM »

Excellent review. I think you captured a fair description of this pickup. I have it in two strat style guitars right now, and have had it in other guitars, including a Les Paul.  One thing about this pickup I found is that it doesn't overide the characteristics of the guitar it's in. Each guitar still sounds like the guitar it's in. This is good if your guitar sounds good naturally, but it might not be the right pickup for fixing a paticular characteristic of a guitar you don't like.

Enough output in my opinion, too.

Thank you so very much for your reply.

You have mentioned i never could experienced. I put it on my custom JS style guitar and i really did fall in love with it. Part of me wants to try it on some other guitars and the rest part tells me to f*ck off, awesome where it belongs
But still i wonder how will it sound on my fat strat. I need another PAF 36th

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The Pickup Place / Re: Which Pickup Features Which Technique

« on: April 17, 2025, 01:53:42 AM »

36th Anniversary PAF Bridge (DP-223) - Airbucker

May i request an update please?
PAF 36th has Virtual Vintage tech, too.

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The Pickup Place / My Dimarzio PAF 36th Anniversary DP223 Review

« on: April 12, 2025, 05:14:38 AM »

Hello,

This is my Dimarzio PAF 36th Anniversary DP223 Review. Hope you like it

https://www.tonejourney.com/post/dimarzio-paf-36th-anniversary-dp223-review

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The Pickup Place / Re: Reply Help me choose next pickup HSH set.

« on: March 27, 2025, 02:09:06 AM »

So so true, and thank you for your fine suggestions.

I will try to feel the guitar in my hands for quite some adequate period and then re-assess !

For my custom guitars, at first i always go with pickups very generic like Jazz/JB or PAF Pro/S.Distortion etc. They are relatively easier to find as used and to be sold. So i put them on the fresh guitar that i'm not very sure about its final tone. When it is complated, i can decide better with the pickups i do know like "there is mud on the neck, i need to go from paf pro to humbucker from hell".