Ormsby Guitars, based in Western Australia, build awesome guitars with pretty much any spec you may ask for. Perry Ormsby, the owner of Ormsby Guitars also makes his own range of hand-made pickups. Perry was extremely generous and sent me two of his pickups to review. The first of those …
Many mid-range guitars come with pretty average sounding pickups. Ibanez is no different to anyone else, and the V7/V8 humbuckers found in the neck and bridge positions of RG series guitars from the mid-nineties onwards are no exception. I ran a poll on Jemsite.com to find out how people felt …
Following on from my “Taming the Tone Zone – continued” post, I have been conducting some more “invasive” modifications to the popular DiMarzio pickup. I decided to open up the Tone Zone and try some magnet modifications. Some people are probably questioning my reasons for doing so many modifications with …
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 …
Since its release in 1986, the DiMarzio PAF Pro has become a standard pickup in many people’s guitars. It’s since been superseded by an army of similarly voiced pickups, but it still has its place in the pickup world. It is a medium power pickup according to the DiMarzio website, …