For twelve years, DiMarzio® has been working on designing high-quality, hum-canceling, vintage-style single-coil pickups. Our goal has always been to recreate the best qualities of pickups from the...
We are convinced that the Area 58™ and Area 61™ pickups represent a major performance breakthrough for noise-canceling Strat® replacement pickups. The research and technology applied to these model...
“A guitarist’s guitarist” perfectly describes Andy Timmons. His touch, phrasing, and tone are exceptional. Since 2001, he has used a custom DiMarzio® humbucking pickup in the bridge position, avail...
The Chopper™ is the more powerful and punchy version of the Fast Track 1™. It focuses more power in the mids and lows for a fuller, biting sound. It shares the same dual-blade structure and side-by...
Although Eric Johnson is primarily known as a Strat® player, he has always played humbucker-equipped guitars as well. After acquiring a new 1959 Gibson® Les Paul® reissue, Eric asked if it was poss...
The Norton® sound is halfway between a FRED® and a Tone Zone®. It has the harmonic overtones of the FRED®, with a particularly aggressive character, plus the power and mids of the Tone Zone®. The s...
The Virtual Acoustic™ pickup uses the same technology as the Virtual Vintage® line to create a virtually hum-free pickup, even when compared to humbuckers. The sound is both warm and open, reproduc...
We first heard about Paul Gilbert in the 1980s. Billy Sheehan told us about an 18-year-old young prodigy who had just arrived in California and had impressed everyone in the band Racer X with his m...
Just as a classic humbucker picks up the string vibration at two distinct points, it eliminates certain frequencies along with the hum. What if there were a humbucker that eliminated fewer frequenc...
