Should I buy... DiMarzio Chopper, or any expensive pickup?
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2016
- Comparing DiMarzio Chopper to a similar, much cheaper pickup.
We immediately notice a huge difference in noise level, which by itself makes the more expensive pickup worth buying, especially if you're a recording musician.
As both pickups are high-output ceramic, both clean and hi-gain tones are very similar. In fact, it seems that noise level may be the main selling point here.
Yep. I use X2N in the bridge and Chopper in the neck position on all my strats and I will never change them.
Video isn't recorded the best way. But I love your sarcasm. "Radio signals from the aliens". "El Cheapo" haha genius
Thanks for the feedback :)
Yeah, I recorded the sound directly into the camcorder using mic-in and it got distorted. Lesson learned. I'll never do it again, especially for anything with sound samples...
Another thing you can change is the sustain block under the bridge. Cheap guitars often have a zinc sustain block or cheaper metal.
Is the el cheapo wax potted? That could attribute to the noise if its not but unwaxed pickups generally sound better
Oh man, this neck cries for setting itself in the right place.
IMHO, the Dimarzio Chopper doesn't change the beautiful Strat sound too much, when switching from single coils to humbuckers.
How come you didn’t move the pick up selector when going from bridge to middle???
It's my experimental soldering-guitar, and at that point it had a 'gibson-style' wiring for humbuckers, the selector only worked for humbuckers vs bridge single pickup.
It could also switch humbuckers in/out of phase and series/parallel. Oh yeah, and it had a Killswitch 🤣
Were you playing some black flag at the beginning ?
I want those DiMarzio... Can I put those on a Left handed strat and how?
You can, they are symetric :)
@@lobster-music Good. Thanks, bro. :D
idk man, El Cheapo sounds dirty hell. to me there's a clear difference in distortion
You had the tone at 10 for DiMarzio and at for El Cheapo..... ?!
Yup, didn't change anything.
Put a Dummy coil pickup inside the guitar. That will kill the hum!
It's not really needed with DiMarzio. Also, both of those are humbuckers. Noise from the single would be much worse...
No it wont, thats only for 60 or 50 cycle hum. That pickup is picking up outside noise
Looks like he cut the pickguard with a chainsaw. Yikes.
It was a normal coarse file, chainsaw is for rounding the frets only ;p
dude wtf fuck did you do to that pickguard......? those holes...
It's my old '97 squire strat, I use it for testing and I re-sloder it every couple of months. The hole is left after a killswitch button - later I decided I prefer a 'flick' switch because I'm used to down position being "on". I'm using the original 97 pickguard, so I had to use a file to be able to fit the humbuckers in :) Also, the electronics is totally weird - its kind of similar to Brian May's setup, where you can choose between parallel and series and switch polarities, but this is only for humbuckers, and the single coil is left for bluesy/ ballad sounds. Classic Strat ;)
Hum is irrelevant. Some pickups from the same company are much more noisy than others. The only way a humbucker will 100% remove noise is if both coils are identical in every way, same number of turns, same type of poles or rail (other than of course the polarity and reverse wind). However Dimarzio has been experimenting a lot with mismatched coils and even a standard humbucker has one row of screws and one row of studs, making them somehow noisy. Modern high gain humbuckers often have two rows of hex screws or rails, making them more silent.
The poles and the magnets have no influence on EM interference, only the coil does.