DiMarzio DP193 BC Zebra F-Spaced

Très bon micro manche au rapport qualité/prix très intéressant. Super sons saturés bien veloutés, bien rond, parfait pour le shred et autres styles faisant appel d'incandescents solos. Des sons clairs pas inintéressant ( notamment les positions intermédiaires lorsqu'il est couplé avec le DP175S de la même marque ). Toujours des crunchs un peu en retrait mais tout de même utilisables.

Toujours un son très riche avec des basses bien rondes, c'est vraiment sympa.
Super en duo avec le Tone Zone ( DP155 ) en aiguë, mais ça tout le monde le sais.

Normally, I use a Seymour Duncan if I'm not happy with the pickups I've got in a guitar. I wouldn't normally have bought this so it was something of an experiment. Ii have to say I'm really pleased with this PU.
At first I had it wired series/parrallel and I didn't like it, it was just too bright. I changed it to coil split and the humbucker came to life. Fully overdriven it's got a beautifully clear searing lead tone, and a really beefy power chord sound. Much more aggressive than the gibson pickups in my Les Paul.
When split, the lead sound is clearer, brighter and very cutting. Excellent for clean rhythm parts.
I play in a covers band and we do play plenty of classic rock like Purple and Zep, and in contrast, we have a lot of dancy stuff like James Brown and Abba and Stax so I need the coil split.
The downside is a small one- I haven't got used to the tonal character of this pickup; although it's not a bad sound it's just different. When I hear it recorded it's great but when I'm actually playing live I hear an unusual quality in the tone.
I'd buy one again. It's probably the most sturdily constructed humbucker I've had. The brighter half of the zebra is much darker than I expected, I keep thinking I've got it dirty.

For the price you can't expect anything too impressive, but I was still pleasently surprised by the sound. It doesn't really like coil splits: a lot of output is lost. When rolling down the volume it tends to lose quite a bit of trebble, and doesn't clean op too well. It's really good for genres with constant distortion like punk or hardrock, but not for metal or clean playing. If you're looking to upgrad a squier I would recommend this pickup, expecially because the stock ones sound really crappy