I purchased this pickup to replace the Dimarzio Tone-Zone that was in a Ibanez rg 1570. I was looking for something to push my Mesa boogie 5:25 express over the edge and tighten up the sound, and that's exactly what it did. I was impressed with the output, but what impressed me the most was how clear sounding, balanced, and quiet it was. I would definitley recommend this pickup to someone looking to get the most out of thier rig without resorting to a distortion pedal.

Features? it's a pickup for goodness sake.

Instruction's were fairly thorough but there is a bit more info at Dimarzio's website regarding installation. My only concern was when installed at the pickups lowest height it was positioned precariously close to the strings, not too close but just enough room.

Product seems to be made well with quality plastic, metal parts, and wax potting.

Definitley worth the price compared to other pickups.

Don't know; never had to call.

The pickup has a very cool ashtetic look to it. With it's twin beam black polepieces it throws off a menacing look.

Hobbyist

Metal, Blues

Playing gtr for 28 years - semi-pro

Rock, metal , punk , grunge

the sound of this pick-up is great. it has good harmonox and thrashes with overdrive. sounds better than other high output pick-ups, but becarful on the wiring, becuase you might get two much feedback which gets annoying after a while. i play death metal and this pick-up is what i needed. but i get to much feedback. high output amp is required.

i have not seen one person with this pick-up. i am like the only person in my area who has one!!! worth the price!!

the support was amazing. really good professional service.

this pick-up looks mean!!!!! it has the perfect look for the shredding sound it can produce!!! poeple trip out when they see my guitar and look at the pick-ups and wonder?

hobbyist

death metal, blackmetal

I play every form of guitar and keyboard. I am a Pro. I also have a Home Recording Studio.

Rock-Christian Rock

For me it is perfect but not for many i play older thrash, black and death metal primarily I own one of the origonals on the bottom it says X2N Power Plus so it's old and not wax potted so it can feed back easily

the coils black color has worn away and the white bobbins are nicotine stained but it still works

if you like a thin sound its easy to get it to work with a bit of luck a drunken monkey with a soldering iron could wire it right

it was made between 1979-1982 I checked so it has worked for many years before i got it and i assume it will continue to work for many years

the price here is a bit higher than you can find but that happends

Very good I asked questions and they were answered very promptly

it's a pickup and a practical one if you want a high output middier and more trebel prominent tone

Active Musician, Amature sound engineer

Speed Metal Black Metal Death Metal some Blues Fingerpicking

This pickup is loud, powerful and does what it was made to do. Rock!

perfect! its just what i need for playing heavy metal! although im saying this it does have a poor clean sound so if you play softer music stay away from this!

The sound is thick, like a super distortion with more mid-range bite and less bass. I needed a pickup without pole pieces before f-spaced pickups were around. I got mine in 1979, yea playin' rock for a long time. I'm still using this thing in a washburn explorer a5 and it's still screaming! I have a coil tap switch for coil 1/both coils/coil 2.

The twin blades are nice for bending, there's no dropouts. 4 counductor wiring for coil taps or series/parallel.