DiMarzio DP207 D-Sonic

The DSonic is a high gain humbucker, 390 mV output. Each coil wound differently.

This pickup is in the bridge of a Carvin DC127M (mahog neck-through body, maple cap, hardtail). I'm replacing the Carvin C22 pickup because I wanted a little more fatness in low mids, and the Carvin pickup lacked tons of overtones on the dirty channel.

Petrucci, Kiko Loureri (Angra), and Rob Balducci use this, that I know of.

I've installed the blade towards the bridge (.10s tuned to Drop C)

This is going into a Boogie Mark III stack. The output is a little to hot for beautiful cleans. That being said, it doesn't behave like a hotter pickup normally does. It adds tons of really cool overtones especially in the low mids/high lowe end spectrum. It really warmed up lower chords, and has this cool smooth growly with slight honk sound. However, this pickup still retains all of your playing nuances, and does not muddy up at all. I'm not sure why this is marketed as a nu-metal pickup. The bass keeps right up with super fast runs on low strings. High end has just enough presence to cut through without sounding brittle (I have a pet peeve of icepick highs). Leads on strings cut through with the right amount of chunk.

I have it wired to tap the adjustable coil, which sounds alright for clean (it lacks a little of those glassy highs...but my air norton has that, so it contrasts it well).

This pickups is great for hard rock if you want a big guitar sound, or metal. Palm muting sounds top notch.

I'd get the pickup again if it was destroyed. I've been playing 6 years, and I have a Duncan Custom in my LP, and a PAF Pro in my Strat, and I like this the best out of all of them. I think it sounds better than EMGs, too.

My only complaint is cleans aren't the greatest, but I can tap and throw the phase on it, so it gets by. I just can't get over the clear deep warm low end on chords, and the presence this thing has on solos.

Humbucker passive.
For he full specs....just need to go to DiMarzio Site.

For bridge position, repalcing a DiMarzio/IBZ Quantum II.

The bar towards the neck...

I??ve heard J. Petrucci was using this new pickup on his Musicman??s Models.....trying to find not an sticky Santana sound like....

I??ve change the pick up becouse I wanted a more defined tone and more output without loosing the essencials of a normal pick up.

It has a great output level but respecting the propieties of normal pick ups systems.

I??m working with a Mesa/Boogie V-twin Rack Pre and a 9200 Stereo Marshall Power amp.

Even in a clean mode it??s an special pick up. It sounds great, full body not a thin sound you can expect from a bridge pickup, usually...

I use to play so many different styles, this is a Heavy Pick up (in a good sense)Love it for getting cutting throught tones.So I recomend it for Rock/Hard/Metal/Progressive/No Boundaries/Ultra-Metal Dudes........No pop or jazzy guys....

It has a great amaizing sustain even in a clean mode, so imagine what you can get of this DSonic in a distortion mode.Everythig balanced between strings.....

I??m happy for finding this pick up, no need of anything else (maybe different cool colours or something fool like that). Just wanna tell you i??ve mounted it on a Mahogamy Body not in Basswood, this is the wood you use to find it mounted. (well ,the new Petrucci models has mahogamy parts.....I know why).

It looks like an imparcial review of a "everything great dude"....but this is the truth. The D Sonic is a great pickup ,not an extremist metal crazy type stuff....

If you really know what is sounding good....you will love this DiMarzio.

Pickup features: humbucking
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: hamer standard
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: stock duncan designed
Other pickups on guitar: dimarzio super II neck
Artists using this pickup: that jack knob from linkin park
You musical style(s): metal
Reason for pickup change: hate duncan pick-ups

Perceived output level: relatively high output, not as hot as an evolution or x2-n
Tone: lots of mids but still balanced at the same time
Sonic evaluation: playing this through a peavey 5150II converted to EL34 power tubes and warmer sunding ECC83 preamp tubes. All Groove Tubes. I installed this pick-up with the bar magnet towards the bridge as instructed for heavy strings and low tunings. This Pick-up has a very "vocally" vowel sound that is similar to a tone zone. But at the same time it isn't doesn't have any "honky" sounding or annoying frequencies that stick out. The lows stay nice and clean, even with a guage 58 low e string tuned to C or even B. The highs stand out and still chime with the low tunings as well. This pick will also SCREAM 80's tones with a set of 10's on the guitar and switching over to the crunch channel. Artificial and natural harmonics are cake to get with this pick-up. It is a great overall rock/metal pick-up

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

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