DiMarzio DP189 Tone Zone S Humbucker Pickup

Tremendous mid-range and bass response.

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"Want the best of both worlds? Here it is!"

Feature:
Came with mounting screws. I wish they had packed some of the rubber hose that fender uses on the stock screws, as i kinda melted mine soldering(hand slipped.) the coil tapping feature is very nice, also series/parallel but i have not wired it that way (yet).

Value:
I think it was a great purchase altogether...my dealer even threw in a dpdt vol pot (500k) (you'll want one of those if you plan to use the 4-conductor wiring)

Desirability:
It's versatile, sexy as hell, and just right with the program.

Sound:
Responds very well to blues/bluesy rock playing, especially when mixed with middle pickup. retains the strat twang, just richens it and adds a little gain. pull the coil tap and you're back to your old single coil sound! I play a Peavey JSX Combo with a Sonic Stomp and a Tape Echo pedal, and I can do everything from Country to hard rock with it. This pickup is probably not suitable for metal.

Ease of Use:
My 2007 Mexi Strat is modified to have tone control on the bridge and neck pickups (very simple to change), and with a .022 cap on the bridge tone, it is very malleable and tone retention on volume swells is good.

Support:
Haven't needed it, except the catalog(which was very informative).

Overall:
I think I will own this pickup as long as I own the guitar it's attatched to. perhaps different pickups for the middle and neck (probably hotter single coils, for my tone) It put the @$$ in my strat, so I can switch between my V, Les Paul, and Strat all without adjusting my amp.

Submitted: 1/27/2008

Style of Music: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock, Metal, a lil bluegrass, etc.

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Description
The Tone Zone S™ brings the performance of the famous Tone Zone T™ to a humbucking Strat® replacement pickup. DiMarzio has built-in the tremendous mid-range and bass response of the original Tone Zone®, and the same patented dual-resonance design produces great harmonics. DiMarzio also took into account the likelihood of installing The Tone Zone S™ in the classic slanted Strat® bridge position, warming up the higher frequencies and brightening the low notes a little. It has 4-conductor wiring for parallel humbucking and split-coil modes, and makes a great bridge position combination with the Pro Track™, Chopper™ and Fast Track 1™.

Recommended For: Bridge position, solid body guitars. Neck position when a very warm jazz guitar sound is required.

Tech Talk: If you compare the specs of the full-size Tone Zone® with those of the Tone Zone S™, you will notice they don't match. That's because the trick in building a single-coil size pickup to sound like its big brother is to go for the sound rather than the numbers. DiMarzio also took into account the likelihood that the Tone Zone S™ will be installed in the classic slanted Strat bridge position, so DiMarzio warmed up the higher frequencies and brightened the low notes a little to compensate.

Technical Info

Wiring: 4 conductor

Magnet: ceramic

Output: 300

DC Resistance: 12.39

Year of introduction: 2003

Patent#: 4501185
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