Buy DiMarzio DP421 Area Hot T Tele Bridge PickupDiMarzio DP421 Area Hot T Tele Bridge Pickup Product Description:
- Combines humbucker and P90 qualitiesMore detail and controlOutstanding dynamic rangeVery sensitive to string distance
Product Description
What would a Tele bridge pickup sound like if it had the same EQ as a vintage PAF? If you're a Tele player and you think this is an interesting question, here's the answer: it's the DiMarzio DP421 Area Hot T Tele Bridge Pickup. Because it has the classic Tele 6-magnet configuration, it's not simply a PAF reduced to Tele size. The sound is more detailed and controlled. The plain strings both sing and sting, and the wound strings have a dynamic quality that's halfway between a humbucker and a P90. The Area Hot T Bridge uses Alnico 2 magnets like other Area models, and works well with either 250K or 500K controls.Recommended For: Standard Tele bridge position.Tech Talk: Like the Area T, the Area Hot T Bridge has outstanding dynamic range, and it responds instantly to changes in pick attack and volume. It's also very sensitive to string distance. The volume is high when the pickup is close to the strings, but can be reduced by backing the Area T Bridge away. String pull is not a problem with the same Alnico 2 magnets that are standard on the Area T. 250K is the recommended control value, but higher values like 500K all around or a 250K volume and the 1 Megohm EP1202 can add some twang to the basic tone.
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By HRJ
I have a Fender Custom Shop Light Relic Tele, and as much I love the guitar and hate to modify it in terms of resale value, I bought it for the specs, feel, and to play it, not sit there and look at it. It suffers from the usual Fender tele pickup problems, whether they are 'vintage' types or not - mainly too bright, too thin, and too low output when moving around against humbuckers in Les Pauls, etc. Makes it difficult to dial in a variety of sounds if the instruments have absolutely nothing in common.SO - I bit the bullet on this pickup, having had previous experience with Dimarzio's for many years, them being after all among the first in this aftermarket business in the late 70's. Always preferred them over the Duncan's - Duncan's never seem to sound like the guitar they are attached to - being to brittle and unbalanced sounding and lacking detail - very mass produced (to me).With a sigh of relief, I find I really like this pickup. It does sound a little different than the stock, but in all the right ways if you want to use overdrive on the treble pickup. It is warm and focused, has great detail for purists, nice output without that spikey treble, and handles clean sounds as well as more agressive rock and blues sounds. It is absolutely noiseless, and does to me continue to transmit the 'Telecaster' character of my instrument, unlike the comments by a previous reviewer.Recommended...
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.Area T Bridge pickup
By Leo Muzzy
This is a great pickup. Easy install, plenty hot, and if you just HAVE to twang, cut all the mids and most of the bass on your amp and twang away!Its sensitivity to string height is a bonus. You can raise it to really drive the amp or lower it for a cleaner (and slightly quieter) sound.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.Better than expected....
By Paul
I was concerned this might be too hot for my tele, but not so. I found it to be as near a perfect combination of a standard single tele pickup and a medium hot PAF as you could get. May not be the best of both worlds, but it sure is good at both. I wanted something a little more HB like in the bridge but not completely lose the tele sound at low gain volumes and I think this achieved what I was looking for. I tried several other similar HB tele pickups but this one best married the single coil tele with the more aggressive and quiet HB tones.
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