Description
Before the Super Distortion showed up in the early ’70s, swapping pickups just wasn’t a thing guitarists did. DiMarzio changed that with DP100, the first pickup engineered from the ground up to drive a tube amp into full-on overdrive. Decades later it’s still the yardstick every other high-output humbucker gets measured against, and this F-spaced black version drops right into bridge routes drilled for trem-equipped guitars.
Tonally, it’s not a one-trick screamer. Ceramic magnets and a hot 13.68 Kohm coil deliver boosted mids, punchy low end, and highs that stay fat rather than harsh — so chords bloom and single notes cut without turning to mush. It’s the sound behind three-plus decades of records from Ace Frehley, Al Di Meola, and Paul Gilbert, among plenty of others who wanted power without sacrificing character.
This is fundamentally a bridge pickup, and it’s happiest in solid-body guitars — hollow and semi-hollow bodies can get unruly with a pickup this warm and hot. It’ll work in the neck position too, provided you’re pairing it with a lower-gain amp. The 4-conductor wiring means you’re not locked into one voice: split it for a Strat-ish single-coil quack, or wire two in parallel (a trick Paul Gilbert used back in his Racer X days) for a hollower, still-humbucking tone.
- Wiring: 4-conductor
- Magnet: Ceramic
- Output: 425 mV
- DC Resistance: 13.68 Kohm
- Introduced: 1972
- Spacing: F-space
- Color: Black
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