Description
Some pickups suggest overdrive. The X2N DP102 demands it. This is DiMarzio’s flagship high-output humbucker, engineered for players who want their bridge pickup to hit the front end of a tube amp like a fist. Those twin wide-bar pole pieces aren’t just visual menace — they’re part of a ceramic magnet structure that creates one of the most powerful, focused fields DiMarzio has ever wound into a humbucker.
What makes the X2N interesting is how it reacts to different guitars rather than flattening them into one generic tone. Drop it into a warm-sounding instrument and it turns into a sledgehammer. Load it into something naturally bright and it screams. Either way, you’re getting massive push into saturation, with the pickup’s own character amplified by whatever wood and construction it’s sitting in.
Despite the ferocity, it’s not a one-trick pickup. Thanks to its 4-conductor wiring, the X2N handles single-coil and series-parallel switching with real authority — split modes here have enough guts that a single coil performs comparably to many Strat-style pickups, something weaker humbuckers can’t pull off convincingly. It also pairs well with other high-output DiMarzio models like the Fast Track 1, The Chopper, and Pro Track for mixed-pickup setups.
Recommended for the bridge position in solid body guitars.
- Wiring: 4-conductor
- Magnet: Ceramic
- Output: 510 mV
- DC Resistance: 15.83 kOhm
- Introduced: 1979
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