DiMarzio DP100 BK

I really wanted to like this pickup because it was what was in Kurt Cobain’s Jaguar and I really liked the sounds he got out of it live. Unfortunately I found the pickup to be much too thin and brittle for my liking with not enough bass response. For what it’s worth the pickup comes packaged nicely with instructions on how to wire it in a few different ways such as coil split and series/parallel, and it also comes with a necessary Allan key to adjust the height of the hex pieces. One thing to consider is that the screws and springs that are included with the pickup are for direct mounting the pickup to the wood of the guitar and are too long to use with a pickup ring. All in all a good product but just not for everyone.

Edit:
So after a while of playing this pickup I felt that something was off because all the reviews that I watched sounded nothing like the sounds I was getting and after reopening my guitar and double checking the wires I realised that I had actually made a mistake when wiring the pickup. I was using a wiring diagram from Seymour Duncan and I had completely forgotten to check if I had the colours right and it turns out I mixed the red and the black wire up because Seymour Duncan and Dimarzio use different colour conventions.

I’ve swapped the wires around and OH MY GOODNESS THIS PICKUP SCREAMS, pinch harmonics sound awesome and chugs sound thick and I’m so glad I didn’t decide to sell this pickup on.