DiMarzio and John Petrucci have announced a new set of signature pickups, the Illuminator and Illuminator 7 humbuckers. Check out the press release below for all the details: DiMARZIO TO RELEASE JOHN PETRUCCI ILLUMINATOR™ AND ILLUMINATOR 7™ PICKUPS Staten Island, N.Y., September 16, 2013 – DiMarzio, Inc. is pleased to …
A number of you may know that I also write for the Seymour Duncan blog. I put in a request to have a Custom Shop pickup made, and it was approved, and yesterday I picked it up from the post office! I built a Frankie type Strat last year, and …
Guitar player, builder and business owner extraordinaire Nick Perri has got some amazing new stuff coming out this summer. Two awesome new Perri Ink Guitars models, and a pair of fantastic pickups made conjunction with Seymour Duncan. PERRI INK “South St.” and “Melrose” Custom Guitars The East Coast meets the …
The EVH Frankenstein Humbucker has quickly become one of my favourite pickups, and not because I want to capture EVH tones. It’s a great all-round pickup, although i really wish that it did have a four conductor mode, and perhaps even F or trem-spacing. I’ve been working on a lead …
I’ve tried a number of pickups in my newly finished Strat over the past few months. I recently traded some pickups for an EVH Frankenstein Humbucker and thought that my Frankie-inspired strat would be the perfect test bed for this pickup. Sure, it has an alder body, custom brass and …