We Need to Talk About These Dimarzio Pickups

[@georgeangelakopoulos8884]

I installed a set of evo’s on this particular guitar! Super tight pickups!

[@EricMorettin]

Agreed!

[@stevestan6525]

That would solve any and all doubts for sure:)

[@tomminkler7640]

Great job, just the right length of each sample to get a good idea. I'm only a 3rd of the way through but on every sample so far the Fusion Edge sound more pinched, narrower with less fullness.

[@angusorvid8840]

One pickup I highly recommend is the DiMarzio Steve's Special. It's incredible. It's high output with restrained mids which gives you a lot more clarity than most pickups, and it works great, cuts through great with awesome harmonics.

[@EricMorettin]

I'll check it out, thanks!

[@msteele0]

I have way too many Ibanez guitars. I really need to start selling some. I've completely fallen in love with a J Custom I have with DiMarzio Fusion Edge Pickups. I think for me they are the perfect pickup.

[@EricMorettin]

@@msteele0 yeah they're very versatile and great for many tones

[@ethagr8162]

Lol John Mayer but down tuned sound sick 😂

[@sirduke1310]

Hey great video! I’m considering purchasing this guitar too. I’m a big hardtail fan, so really like this particular model. The other option would be that orange Prestige, but I’m not that crazy about its color although it has slightly higher specs. By the way I notices you removed the volume knob😉 Was it uncomfortable to play? What did you use to cover the pot hole? Thanks and keep shooting great videos🤘

[@EricMorettin]

@@sirduke1310 thanks! It's a great guitar and doesn't need much outside of your own string gauges and setting the action where you like it. I covered the hole with some hole plugs!

[@xenospeed7981]

Yeah man, I'm at the same point. That orange Prestige better speced but I don't like bright colors. Did you end up buying one?

[@sirduke1310]

@@xenospeed7981 Actually no, I didn’t🤣 I decided to wait for the new RG Prestige and Genesis models to come! I also really like some DK24 Charvel guitars. So I figured it’s just better wait for now🤘

[@paulcarter105]

Exactly well spoken. Got a Ibanez rgd axion label a couple years back and I was surprised at the brightness, clarity and attack even if the output isn’t quite there. Which is better in the long run for cleans, chords and tighter single note riffing

[@EricMorettin]

Thanks! Even if you need more gain, just put an OD pedal into your signal

[@paulcarter105]

Yeah run mt2w and precision drive as main tone. Sounds good even with hm2w stacked in front after the overdrive. In drop c 26.5 scale. Only downside is that it’s not coil split but I think I might get a 5 way switch or push pull pot installed some day

[@v4ld3r5]

I have an Ibanez RGR752AHBF with these pickups, and I was not entirely convinced of their performance for crushing metal. However, using a 3-band multicompressor followed by a tube screamer works wonders. I will keep them for their versatility. Cheers from Spain

[@EricMorettin]

@@v4ld3r5 cheers! I find you only need a boost to really push these for metal, otherwise they're fantastic on their own.

[@v4ld3r5]

@@EricMorettin yeah it might be just me because I'm so used to EMG pickups I feel they lack compression and need to sculpt some mids. With the 3-band compressor that comes in the Helix I can do this before going to the Tubescreamer and works like a charm 👌

[@johnwilkerson5508]

Played a mahogany RG with these vs another (older, also mahogany) RG with the V7/V8 and they feel related. Both “sound like mahogany” in their guitars with a relaxed midrange and lots of clarity and a surplus of lows. Fusion Edges seem more refined for the same general sound. Some people think the V7/V8 are what Ibanez thought the JB/‘59 set should sound like. Someone said the bridge and neck Fusion Edge measure the same DCR, implying 2 of the same pickup. This may be the case, but also, the DiMarzio Evolution set is 2 pickups with the same (or, same-ish) DCR, and those are definitely 2 different pickups. So, I wouldn’t be so sure.

[@erictripton]

I recorded some of my tunes with them. They have merit. Just a little shy of bite or upper mids. I replaced them with Steve Morse Model pups.

[@BadMotivator66]

i'm just having a set put in my HB amarok (i wasn't a fan of the nasal emgs). being direct mount, my options at my budget were limited. The FE are based on the titans- that's the only info on them that i could find!

[@callthemall]

Sikth! Very cool riffage choice!

[@EricMorettin]

Thanks! One of my favorites

[@jonsierra723]

I got a weird one for you. Could you check the signature pick up from the arch enemy guy( Micheal Amot) it’s a dean pick up

[@EricMorettin]

If a Michael Amott guitar comes in for repair then sure!

[@jonsierra723]

@@EricMorettin yay. I might just buy it and send it to you lol

[@chocolatecookie8571]

I think they sound great. They are very versatile. Ibanez has been using these pickups for years on multiple models.

[@EricMorettin]

Agreed

[@MichaelSheaAudio]

There are some differences in the clean tones, but once the gain comes in, the differences go out, expectedly. I don't personally care about how pickups "sound" anymore, because it's not important in the grand scheme, I just care about the output and how they look in the guitar. 😅

[@MaineiacSean]

I just got that exact same Prestige . As a metal player I'm not really impressed with the Fusion Edge pickups yet. Still turning nobs on my rig

[@EricMorettin]

@@MaineiacSean worst case you can also change the pickups as a final resort.

[@MaineiacSean]

​@@EricMorettin I actually just ordered the Seymour Duncan Jupiter 7 Bridge pickup on sweetwater and leaving the neck pickup stock for now

[@EricMorettin]

@MaineiacSean love the Jupiter

[@MaineiacSean]

​@@EricMorettin I might order two because a day after I received my 7 String Prestigue in weathered black and discovered it was a fixed bridge when I thought it had a floating bridge with a whammy bar.... I ordered another Ibanez Prestige Dark Tide Blue 7 string because the weathered black one was just too beautiful and smooth for me to return so now I have a second 0% APR guitar payment lol If I like the Jupiter in the Blu one I'm replacing the Fusion bridge in first I may do the black Prestige too. Need more time to decide on the next pick up I play the bridge more often on heavy riffs but do go to the neck on clean parts. Fusion sounds good clean.

[@MaineiacSean]

Of course now that I've been sitting here playing with my few pedals and amp for hours I have a fuckin awesome metal sound with this Dimarzio fusion . I haven't really played electric in years been an accoustic hippy when I used to be a thrasher Pantera/Slayer/Fear Factory type player Getting evil sounding again 😆

[@seanwallace7517]

I just got the 7-string version of this guitar. I’m not really sure how I feel about how this guitar sounds quite yet. It doesn’t really have the bite that some other 7-strings that I’ve played have. I used to have a JP15 with the Illumnators in them and I really liked that. I didn’t really think that pickups mattered that much for metal tones but it just sounds kinda meh to me.

[@EricMorettin]

I think Ibanez chose these pickups because they're versatile. At the end of the day no guitar is perfect unless you custom order it with the exact specs and hardware that you want. But, for the price of this guitar, It's really hard to be, especially with the build quality. Pickups are easy to change anyways

[@scottgroves5204]

I think the Fusion Edge pickups sound Great! Plus I really don't think Ibanez would put a sub-par pickup in their Prestige line guitars.

[@EricMorettin]

I agree!

[@scottgroves5204]

@@EricMorettin I have this Guitar myself and I absolutly llove the sound...In fact when I 1st got it I was prepared to replace the pickups because so many people rated them so so! Even highly respected reviewers like Trey who I adore. :) Most claimed the pickups were the weak link and that was solved easily. So...After a couple days I was thinking...Wow, I'm the only Guitarist who purchased this RGR652 and got an awesome set of pickups!! :) Anyways..Thank you so much for the glowing review! Glad to see a review thats based on actual sound and not a notion ! ;)

[@TaxEvader420]

The fusions are strange, I have that exact guitar model, and didn't like them at first. Finally lowered the pickup height and now I quite dig them, they remind me of EMGs but not as hot

[@EricMorettin]

Yeah they're very clear and sound great for lots of genres

[@kangandres]

I prefer Fusion Edge away better than any SD so far, pall !!

[@gearhead2017]

Kinda biased when it comes to tone,seymour duncan junkie here but john petrucci uses dimarzio in all his guitars and i love his tone and the guitars as well lol

[@EricMorettin]

John has arguably the best live guitar tone I've heard on a 6 string

[@ottotheawesome5008]

I couldn't stand them on this guitar. Replaced them with dimarzio gravity storms. Absolutely fantastic.

[@EricMorettin]

The gravity storm seems like a great set of pickups from what I've read

[@juliusmaximus753]

Plugged into Laboga Hector and 5151, fusion Edge is pure shit lack of power, gain, just pure shit. 220mv pickups both.

[@satanpaid]

For me F. Edges has a lot with Tone zones and sometimes reminds Air Norton in cleans, and less wound neck pickup, and it is no fantasy to suposse that Ibanez asked Dimarzio over the years an affordable good pickups for them exclusively (better than those Dimario/Ibanez from a lot of years ago) , and Dimarzio lately said, o.k. but what do you want to be like?? so the answer is very obvious XD, from both parts. With maybe a little more high and low freq to sink a little bit the mids, but for me , after 3 prestige, this one fixed bridge, the same with Edge trem and a 5320 CSW, lately and after some changes i regret one and i think they are great for me, and in general i´m right with Eric, tried it, they are not the harsh average cheap guitars, they are really good and DEFINED. very CLEAR with lots of gain.