Description
DiMarzio built The Chopper as the beefed-up sibling to the Fast Track 1, shifting more energy into the low end and midrange to deliver a bigger, grittier voice with extra crunch on tap. Under the hood it uses the same side-by-side twin-blade coil design as the Fast Track 1, which means the blades cover the full width of the string spacing u2014 no more worrying about misaligned pole pieces or string pull throwing off your tone or sustain.
DiMarzio originally engineered it to sit in the bridge position, paired up with The Cruiser and Fast Track 1, but plenty of players drop it into the neck slot too, especially in guitars running a hot humbucker at the bridge. Tonally, it lands right in between a single-coil and a full-size humbucker u2014 you get more girth and push than a standard single, but it keeps more articulation and snap than a full humbucker would.
If you’re chasing a fatter, more powerful bridge tone in a Strat-style build, this is a proven route, and it slots naturally into a matched set: run two Fast Track 1s alongside it, or pair a Fast Track 1 neck with The Cruiser (DP187) in the middle.
- Wiring: 4-Conductor
- Magnet: Ceramic
- Output: 260 mV
- DC Resistance: 9.16 kOhm
- Introduced: 1994
- Patent: 4501185
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