DiMarzio Chopper T

Output 260, 9,19 Ohm

I use this on in a Fame Telecaster, which is a very fine Tele copy, handmade in Poland.

The output LEvel fits well to Texas Special PUs. It has a very fast attack and it sounds very middy. You have a very powerful crunch sound and I like the Lead sound which has a lot of pressure. It still has a tele Feeling but you can really rock. It

What I do not like is the plastic cover instead the metal plate. I am frightend to screw to much becuase it could break. There are better Materials for Pick ups.

On the other hand if it is built in you will not touch it for month or years. The Sound is great.

humbucker in a singlecoil style
"moderat input" no vintage and no high gain !

i have a Fender Deluxe Tele that comes with the noisless ******,
they re fine but thats all, I wanted a bit more "fattness" in the bridge position and I get it from the Chopper T.
In the neck is still the std. Fender noizless...
For me it works, maybe they better call i the " Chunky T" ;-)
becouse thats what it is, a chunky, fat, crispy Rock thing.
My choose for it was the Sound of Richie Kotzens last two Albums.

Moderate output works from Jazz to Hard Rock not the best for Metal.
My Amp is a Engl screamer(V 30)combo with 2x12 greenback cab.
or a Fender Blues deluxe with a 1 x 12 Heritage cab.
My Effects are Maxon Ad 999 and A modded crybaby classic a Peterson Hardwire Tuner thats it.
I play Blues, Jazz, Rock, Funk and a bit Hard Rock since the early 90??. I played with this equipment in small Clubs and large studios, works...
its only for a Tele bidge !!!!
Maybe ther is a better pickup outthere I dont have find or its from a boutiqe Handmade freak for $$$ so thats why I can give only 9 points.

Destroyed ? stolen ? Yes i would deffenetly buy the same and hope that the actuall material is the same. Mine is 4 years old.
I love it and cant hate him.
Perfect for me.

Tele bridge position humbucking passive pickup
Check DiMarzio or Musician's Friend for the specs

Installed in Warmoth guitar with Walnut body and mahogany neck
It's the original pickup I installed when I built the guitar in 1995!
The neck position is a DiMarzio Air Classic, also the original from '95!

Don't know of any artists using this; don't care...

...at the time I just needed a bridge pickup; I didn't know much about tone; I lucked out and started with a great choice!

This pickup has vintage humbucker level output with nice highs and lows. I've got it tapped for series and parallel tones; in parallel it gets pretty close to vintage Tele single coil tone, although I know purists would want more glassy highs and spank. Still, through a good tube amp, you can get most of that, and still have a balanced versatile tone that goes into standard humbucker territory very nicely when used in series...I've installed a lot of pickups in a lot of guitars since '95, and this one still is one of the best for versatile tone. Overdrives smoothly through my FullTone Full Drive 2 into either my Peavey Delta Blues or Gibson GA15-RV. Have used it through Fender amps and other Peavey amps, and it sounds great.

I play blues/bluesy rock (think Allman Brothers, Govt. Mule, SRV, Johnny Winter, etc., also Beatles, Clapton, and WISH I could play like Gatton and Buchanan!), country rock, contemporary Christian & worship and am getting into more fingerstyle (a la Gatton, Doyle Dykes, Junior Brown).

I thnk it deserves a 10, but I know others would stick their noses up, so I'll give it a 9 (but really 10 for my purposes).

Yeah, I'd replace it, but I'd be heart broken, since this was my first project guitar that I built from the ground up (with Warmoth neck and body); I did the nut, the assembly/set-up, and all the wiring (series/parallel on both pickups separately, which was a nightmare for a beginner, but a great learning experience).

I just orderd a DiMarzio Fast Track T and a Cruiser (Strat pickup) for another one of my Warmoth Tele's; I want to go for just a little different tone in that guitar (a walnut thinline body with no f-hole), and still avoid noise (which I'm getting big time from the current set of pickups, some Rio Grandes; great tone, but too noisy!).

This pickup does a lot; if someone closed their eyes and just listened, they'd swear this thing was a good vintage humbucker (in series mode); covers the above mentioned styles plus Led Zeppelin, etc. I keep coming back to DiMarzio and Bill Lawrence pickups. A lot cheaper than a lot of other boo-teek pickups (I've had a set of Barden's; good pickups, but overpriced; I sold 'em a couple years ago for a nice profit when he was temporarily out of business; I'll stick with DiMarzio's and Lawrence's!).

Pickup features: Single coil sized humbucker
Impedence or other specs: 260 mV output

Model of guitar or bass: Peavey Reactor
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: Stock
Other pickups on guitar: Texas special
Artists using this pickup: ??
You musical style(s): 80's Rock
Reason for pickup change: To thin sounding not to much lows

Perceived output level: Pretty hot just as hot as my duncan invader in one of my other guitars
Tone: sounds alot like a Duncan JB with a little more mids & highs
Sonic evaluation: Roland VG-88 V-Guitar System stereo out to two Ibanez tone blaster 100 heads two Ibanez cabinets.this guitar with this pickup in it screams like a banshee! just like all my guitars.I LOVE the bell like tone it has.This is a Great pickup for in your face rock tone.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: I play 80's metal and its perfect for it

Comments: If it were destroyed or stolen, I would buy it again Ive been playing all my 38 year life and this is one of the best sounding singel coil sized humbucker I have ever heard Compared to other pickups I have owned & own Duncan STHR-1,JB jr,Fast Track 1,Little 59er, EMG-RTC,

Pickup features: passive humbucker fit for single coil slot
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: fender standard telecaster
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: stock fender singe coil
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s): screamo, rock, punk
Reason for pickup change: i dont care for single coils but i love the style and quality of telecasters

Perceived output level: pretty hot, i have a seymour duncan JB in my other guitar and the chopper t is hotter
Tone: trebly but pretty well balanced
Sonic evaluation: fender tele into marshal MG half stack

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: great for rock

Comments: if it was destroyed or stolen, i would definately replace it. it makes my amp just sound better in general. it sounds brighter and it almost makes my amp sound like a tube amp.

Pickup features: Dual rail humbucking
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: Mexican Standard Tele
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: Stock Mexican Single Coil Bridge
Other pickups on guitar: Stock Mexican Single coil Neck
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s): Blues/Rock/Shred
Reason for pickup change: To give the guitar some balls

Perceived output level: Rocking! Kiss that puny Mex twang sound goodbye
Tone: This adds a load of bass and mid over the stock sound whilst maintaining a sweet amount of treble
Sonic evaluation: I'm using a Mexican tele through a Trace Elliot hybrid amp. With the valves glowing and the distortion whacked upto 11 this PU really sounds sweet. With the 250K pots in it has a great tone. Bassy yet the treble allows lead playing to cut through. Also great for blues at lower distortion levels.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: I play blues through to shred. This thing covers all those bases pretty well

Comments: If this PU got messed up, I wouldn't even think twice about getting it again. It has converted my rather feeble Mex tele into a guitar that can rock with the best of 'em. Love it.

Pickup features: Humbucking
Impedence or other specs: unknown

Model of guitar or bass: Califonia Telecaster
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: Tex-Mex Telecaster pickup
Other pickups on guitar: Tex-Mex Stratocaster pickup
Artists using this pickup: unknown
You musical style(s): Gospel, R&B, Rock
Reason for pickup change: Tex-Mex Bridge pickup was very good for the Gospel and R&B music. Tex-Mex was not good enough for Rock music that I played because I needed more gain and distortion.

Perceived output level: This is a true humbucker in a single coil sized package! Improved gain by 100%!
Tone: Good overall but, the ceramic magnets lack character, and are a little dry.
Sonic evaluation: I am using a California Telecaster with a Marshall JCM- 900 SLX. I am using a Fender Bassman Cabinet loaded with 2x12 Peavey Sheffield speakers.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: I play a wide variety of styles R&B to Rock. This is a good pickup for both if there is a coil tap switch installled to tone down the gain.

Comments: I am very happy with this pickup, and would buy it again on my next telecaster. Think of this pickup as a very hot P-90 or P-100. If you need alot of gain in a tele sized pickup, this one is for you. If you think you can play country music with this forget about it. I added a coil tap to this pickup and made the pickup more versitile!!!. I have talked with some anti-Dimarzio guitar players and even they were surprized by the solid sound of this pickup. Because it has ceramic magnets it lacks some character and are a little dry when compaired to the Tex-Mex telecaster pickups. I think the Tex-Mex stratocater neck pickup is a good match for this Dimarzio. I was looking at Seymour Duncan pickups and could not find a replacement pickup that was a beefy humbucker, they only offered traditional single coil pickups. I have stopped searching for that sound, because I found it. I never thought I would say this, but, thanks Dimarzio.

Pickup features: Humbucker
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: Protone Telecaster
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: Original Alnico Singlecoil
Other pickups on guitar: Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s): Rock
Reason for pickup change: Stock Pickup hadn't enough output and was too thin

Perceived output level: as hot as a really humbucker (a little bit less than PAF PRO from Dimarzio)
Tone: very balanced, hot but not heavy, sings and crys, not noisy
Sonic evaluation: I use it with a Digitech GNX-1 direct to mixer or a Hiwatt 100 Custom Stack

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: I play mostly Rock and Blues and a little bit of Funk

Comments: This is a great pickup. I've a Fender American Standard with Fender vintage PU's and it's very traditional and I would not change it. But for my Protone Tele which has as Standard a Humbucker in neck position I wanted a hotter sound.
I wanted something between my Les Paul and my Tele.
This PU is original that what I wanted. Humbucker output with a little bit of Tele Twang.
Important is that my Protone Tele has as standard 500K Pot's (because of the neck humbucker)and this was the only PU I found for that.
With a standard 250K Tele Pot it should sound warm without much highs, a 500K brightens up the highs and low strings and it sounds a little more like stock tele PU and get's more twang.

Pickup features: tele bridge humbucking dual rail design
Impedence or other specs: Hot! 260mv output

Model of guitar or bass: homemade birch plywood body, maple w/rosewood neck cannabilized from an Aria Les Paul copy
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: none, built guitar with this pickup
Other pickups on guitar: none
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s): Hard rock, metal, experimental noise and various wierdness
Reason for pickup change: Pickup was reccomended by a friend as a good rock and roll tele sound.

Perceived output level: Hotter than a standard tele single coil, as hot as a humbucker. No drop off on bending due to rail design.
Tone: Well balanced. Sounds like a bright humbucker with some twang. Kicks with distortion. Perhaps lacks just a little in the bass department. Highs are bright but not piercing. No hum!
Sonic evaluation: Home made guitar into Boss GX-700 or into a Boss Metal Zone than a Laney 15 watt. I built the guitar with a volume pot and a series/parallel switch. Wanted a hot rodded single pickup guitar to cover a range of sounds. Sounds good in all settings. Handles distortions of all kinds well. Sounds good clean in both series and parallel settings. As quiet as a good humbucker should be.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: This pickup is not for the tele purist. That said this is a great pickup. It has a ballsy aggressive sound in series mode and a brighter cleaner sound in parallel mode. Could be used in any musical style.

Comments: This is a good pickup for forging your own sound with. I have been playing for twenty years and have recently begun building my own guitars. I wanted a guitar that would be bright but not too bright and full enough to handle all kinds of distortion without sounding thin. I also wanted silence. The Chopper T in my plywood body does this and more. I chose this pickup after hearing it in a friends tele and really digging it.