DiMarzio EVOLUTION vs TONE ZONE - Passive Bridge Guitar Pickup Comparison Tone Demo
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2021
- Clean and distorted rhythm comparison between DiMarzio Evolution (passive) and DiMarzio Tone Zone (passive) pickups for electric guitar on the bridge position. Settings are the following:
GUITAR
Tuning: Eь / D#
Strings: D'Addario EXL140 (010-052 gauge)
AMP
Clean: EVH 5150 III profile (Kemper Profiler)
Distortion: Peavey 5150 profile (Kemper Profiler)
RECORDING TECHNIQUE:
- One centered mono track per pickup.
- Same config and EQ for both.
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00:23 Clean test
03:06 Distortion test
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Amazing AMAZING VIDEO! THIS is how you do it! Short bursts of each sample. Not long drawn out segments that you won't remember when the other sample is played.
Great video, cheers!
Both pickups are amazing but i go to Tone Zone.
If you can get your hand on a Q Tuner humbucker i'd by very curious. Let me know if its possible.
My bc rich 7 string came with an Evolution and at the time l didn't care for it as l wanted more and more heavierness. Got a X2N and the guitar pickup did not jive well. Now on some Dragonfire, the ones that look like Invaders. Sounds ok but voiced strange. Anyway, might switch back to the Evolutions as they sounded the best overall.
Evo is strong. Tone Zone might be the better sounding if volume pot turned down a bit. But it depends on your git too.
I have a few Ibanez guitars, two of them have a Tone Zone and one has an EVO. It's all a matter of opinion but the Evo blows the tone zone out of the water, especially in a band mix. The Evo just has this punch that the tone zone can't match.
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Both are great pups. But neither were designed for this sort of heavy percussive riffage. The Evolution was built around a particular lead tone Vai wanted with a punchy low end and the Tone Zone was a byproduct of DiMarzio's design of Eddie's pups for his Music Man, although with more low end and no Air Bucker technology. At heart the Tone Zone is a beefier JB with more low end and more cut and cut high end. The Tone Zone is designed around a hair metal sort of tone and the Evolution is a very harmonic, high sensitivity Vai pup. I say for a real crunch fest with percussive low end the best DiMarzios are the Super 3, D Activator X, Titan, and X2N. The Steve's Special also has a great, tight low end.
I never undestood this claim that's floating around the internet that the Evo isn't good for Metal rhythm. It's a very tight, ballsy pickup with clear highs, great note separation and an aggressive character - how is THAT not metal riffage? I suspect that many people don't have the right pick attack and clean technique to really get the chugging thing going without a certain amount of fatness and saturation that helps blur the notes a little bit. Evo is unforgiving when it comes to that. But that also makes it a very viable pickup for really good riff players. WAY better than something like the X2N, which has absolutely no percussive quality to it, is just way too fat and flubby too and loud no matter how far away from the strings you can get it and how much you fool around on the amp. I can imagine that it hides flaws in the picking style really well ...
@@honigdachs. I totally agree with you on the Evolution. I’m exclusively a rhythm player and I love the Evolution. It’s probably my favorite humbucker I’ve ever played. It’s powerful, articulate, and has a great EQ to it. I like that it doesn’t have too much flubby low end or icepicky highs. I also like that it doesn’t color the sound very much, and I can use my EQ on my amp to get different tones out of it. It’s also got a really good clean tone.
How is the X2N, too scooped?
TONE ZONE to me feels more readable when both clean and overdriven, also more natural when clean
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tonezone sounds a bit like typical seymour duncan pickup
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Ehh.... It's the Evolution for me all day long. The Tone Zone, to me, has a sloppy bass, muffled even. And in person I remember it sounding nasally.
I haven't tried an Evo in person. Is it like a hot rodded PAF pro?
The Tone Zone is derived from Eddie Van Halen's favourite Frankenstrat pickup, a broken JB that he liked far more than a normal JB. The Dimarzio guys got that kind of JB adjacent sound so it's got that thick dark JB low end but with drastically better clarity and note separation.
But ultimately it makes sense if the Tone Zone low end is thicc, because the JB is a really dark kind of muddy pickup.
TONE ZONE, evo too thin and harsh !
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