A while back I stumbled upon a really cool pickup switching idea while reading various Internet guitar forums. People were talking about the Suhr Guthrie Govan signature guitar and a really cool feature that it had. Suhr called it the “blower switch”, and it’s a switching system that allows you …
The DiMarzio Tone Zone is a polarising pickup, people either love it or hate it. The issue some people have with the Tone Zone is that the low-end can be quite muddy and overbearing in some guitars. One way to try and resolve this is to lower the height of …
In the quest to make my Ibanez 20th Anniversary RG550 RFR really roar I decided to take on the DiMarzio Tone Zone. I had previously installed the DiMarzio PAF Pro in the bridge position, and as I mentioned in my PAF Pro review I found that it just didn’t drive …
After installing my DiMarzio Tone Zone in to my Ibanez 20th Ann RG550RFR, I had been reading about the “half-air” mod, which quite a few people have performed on their Tone Zones. I was curious about it as I was wanting to find a way to get rid of some …
I’ve mostly been an EMG pickup user over the last 5-6 years. I decided that when I got my Ibanez 20th Ann RG550RFR that I wanted to load up some passive DiMarzios for something different. I started off with a DiMarzio PAF Pro in the bridge position, and whilst I …