Item Reviews for: DiMarzio DP100 Super Distortion Guitar Humbucker Pickup  -  DIM SUPRDST LIST
DiMarzio DP100 Super Distortion Guitar Humbucker Pickup
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There’s nothing like the super distortion

By: Joe      Submitted: 1/4/2024

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Product Rating Product Review Dimarzio is a necessity in your arsenal nothing like this pick up.
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Great Pickup!

By: Kramer      Submitted: 7/3/2023

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1 person found this review helpful.
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Product Review Everything you would expect from this classic. If it's good enough for Phil Collen it's good enough for me! Excellent clarity despite the high output. Highly Reccomend and AMS gave me a great deal.
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My favorite Fat Strat pickup

By: Daniel      Submitted: 5/10/2022

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Product Review I've put these in multiple Strats. The EQ curve on them lends itself to guitars with a trem, as it compensates for the natural bass rolloff inherent with tremolos. I love the adjustable pole pieces.
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Classic High Output Awesomeness!

By: Mick      Submitted: 3/6/2021

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Product Review This is the pickup that started it all and continues to be successful! I sap pickups in all my guitars and I every once in while I'll try something different. But I always end back to 2 pickups. This being one of them. Pu t this pickup in front of a JCM800 or Plexi style amp and the magic of the 70's and 80's is back.
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This pick up really rocks

By: DN      Submitted: 10/5/2020

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1 person found this review helpful.
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Product Review I bought the Dimarzio Super Distortion in that I want a passive pick up on my back up guitar. ( I have active EMG pickups in my ESP LTD Les Paul style guitar). After I finally got the new pickup installed I was able to play and WOW, this thing is killer. To the distortion/overdrive and cleans this pickup is by far one of the best pickups I've played by far. While I love active pickups I think I'm going to install Dimarzio on my main guitar. DiMarzio is legendary and rightfully so, they are the best!
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The Super Distortion Humbucker from DiMarzio

By: Sanders      Submitted: 8/21/2020

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2 people found this review helpful.
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Product Review The definitive, original, classic himbucking pickup.
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They still rock!

By: Chris      Submitted: 5/3/2020

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Product Review I put these in my Ibanez guitar. It changed the way I looked at that guitar. The sound was so much better. Another great purchase from American Musical! I have always wanted DiMarzio super distortion pickups since I was a teenager,and now I have them and my sound is alive. Thank you AMS for a great product at a great price.
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Awesome company to do business with

By: Jay Jay      Submitted: 4/29/2020

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1 person found this review helpful.
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Product Review Products are awesome, shipping is fast. American Musical is my trusted go to. My next purchases will be to get my studio up and running.
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DiMarzio DP100 humbucker

By: Nkjelvik      Submitted: 4/10/2020

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Product Review awesome pickup, super lows and great clean hi ,great for funk and heavy metal,I plan on changing out all my humbuckers to DiMarzio DP100,I play alot of blues and rock,I love the way is sounds
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The best

By: Alan k      Submitted: 1/26/2020

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3 people found this review helpful.
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Product Review Installed on my 2018 epiphone Les Paul. Sounds great. Thank you ams
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These pick up drive mt tube amp.sounds great

By: Ransom Blake      Submitted: 9/5/2019

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Product Review I bought the dimarzio pups for my les pual standard really easy to install the just drop in my gibson . installed in my gibson I got that ace frehley sound I wanted. Great pickups I recommend these pups if you want to change your sound . I ordered another pick up for my epi gibson!
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You know what you’re getting.

By: Bill      Submitted: 6/5/2019

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Product Review What you are getting is a reliable high gain pick with a smooth gainy(if that’s a word) tone. The price and quality are hard to beat. Long standing quality that is always reliable at a price that’s irresistible
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Nasty when i want it

By: Gary Dunlap      Submitted: 5/3/2019

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2 people found this review helpful.
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Product Review Great for rock/blues and metal. I have one in three different guitars
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Powerful, powerful, powerful!

By: Vince Levelev      Submitted: 4/29/2019

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2 people found this review helpful.
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Product Review The output on the Super Distortion is absolutely wild and with a clean sound it distorts so subtlety and warmly. Adds a lot of character to tone.
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Great metal pickup!

By: Tony      Submitted: 3/5/2019

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11 people found this review helpful.
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Product Review Very quiet with awesome distortion. Added good string articulation and bite
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Perfect Pickup For Classic Rock

By: Glenn N      Submitted: 2/24/2019

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1 person found this review helpful.
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Product Review I bought this to go in the bridge position of an Ace Frehley replica Les Paul.. This is the pickup that Ace used back in the 70’s when KISS was in their heyday.. No disappointment at all with this pickup.. It is HOT and sounds just like it’s supposed to!! Thick sounding lows, crunchy mid tones, and screaming highs.. Harmonics are GREAT.. maybe not as pronounced as an active pickup, but for ceramic magnets it gets the job done. If you’re into classic hard rock or even early 80’s metal this pickup will suit you fine. This is the first DiMarzio pickup that I’ve ever used.. but it won’t be my last. I’ll be ordering another for a Paul Kossof/Dave Murray replica strat that I’m working on.
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My son was so excited !

By: Joey      Submitted: 12/27/2018

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Product Review He loves it and can't wait to use it
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I love these pickups!

By: Pat Westmoreland      Submitted: 9/5/2018

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2 people found this review helpful.
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Product Review I love these pickups, have tried several others, but the Super Distortion does it! Am putting these in all my guitars.
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The best decision I ever made was buying the DiMarzio improved my guitar sound immensely thank you

By: Rick Harkness      Submitted: 2/20/2018

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1 person found this review helpful.
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Product Review It has a Superior Sound at any volume level well worth the money and well worth the Improvement on the sound of my guitar.
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It's OK.

By: William A. Bailey      Submitted: 1/22/2017

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Product Review I've had guitar players over the years use them at rehearsal and to me they sound thin. I prefer the sound of a Seymour Duncan Alnico II in a Les Paul.
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"Great Lead Pickup"

By: David P. Makowski      Submitted: 8/3/2013

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Your general opinion of this product. I play Gibson guitars and recently switched from my Les Paul Custom and Les Paul Standard to an SG Special, SG Standard, and an SG Standard with push/pull pots due to chronic low back pain I needed lighter weight guitars. I absolutely love the Gibson 498T Bridge Pickup with the 500T a close second. My SG's have the 490R and 498T combination except the one with the push/pull pots. I contacted Gibson and they told me my SG had a Burstbucker #1 in the neck and a Burstbucker #3 in the bridge. That explained why the tone was different in that one SG. I believe Burstbuckers are great pickups but just not for me. So, I decided to switch out the Burstbucker #3 in the bridge with a DiMarzio DP100 Super Distortion. Although the DiMarzio DP100 Super Distortion is designed with ceramic magnets as apposed to alnico V magnets used in the Gibson 498T, It sounds really good and suites my needs. The DiMarzio DP100 Super Distortion has a strong output, good note articulation, good definition, and it is harmonically rich. The DiMarzio DP100 Super Distortion to me is hot, bright without being brittle, has a great rock tone, and pinch harmonics are easy to create. This pickup is perfect for classic hard rock and heavy metal. N/A Pickup arrived in perfect condition. I bought the DiMarzio DP100 Super Distortion instead of the Gibson 498T to save money. The folks at AMS were very fair with the price and honoring a competitors coupon to help me even more. I always have a good experience with AMS. They are good people and fair people.
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Rich!

By: 58Flame from Vashon, WA, USA, Planet Earth      Submitted: 3/20/2010

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I think Dimarzio quality is of the utmost. The last of these that I actually purchased was used from the late 70's. It shows all the apparent wear of years on the road, but functions just like the other I recently purchased brand new. I 'd say they stand up well. Your general opinion of this product. I love these pickups! I have tried a lot of different pickups over the years, and for my taste, the Super Distortion is always where I come back to. n/a This pickup is the tone machine. n/a n/a
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One fine pickup....

By: Jeff Dick from Riverside, Ca      Submitted: 8/31/2008

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I've been installing SD's in all of my humbucker-equipped guitars since the late eighties, and not one of those pickups has ever broken down. Dimarzio is the standard of quality other pickup manufacturers aspire to. Seymour Duncan doesn't even come close.... Again, they just don't break down. Don't abuse them and they'll hold up forever. Your general opinion of this product. They are the best passive lead pickups ever made. I'm not kidding. You will not go wrong with these. Very responsive, strong output, and sonic character. Tone is sweet and strong, with solid bass, smooth treble, and a touch of mids. Pick attack and sustain is great. Just don't try to use these for rhythm pickups. They're too strong and bassy for hi-gain amps--too much feedback....A PAF Pro will match up nicely. I tend to forget I have the best, and will try out other pu's sometimes, but I always come back to Super Distortions. Always.... They come in a wide variety of colors, although I'm partial to creme. Action is ok, but I always adjust the pickup poles to my individual guitar's string action for the highest output I can get.
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nice!

By: AMS Customer from USA      Submitted: 2/5/2008

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Cream of the crop!!!

By: MSYF      Submitted: 2/5/2008

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QUALITY:
DiMarzio's are the best!! The pickups made very well, and sound great!

FEATURES:
The Super Distortion can get many different kinds of sounds, from clean to extreme!

EASE OF USE:
no problems here.

VALUE:
Well worth the money!!

SOUND:
No matches the sound of DiMarzio's!!!

STYLE:
everything

MUSIC EXPERIENCE:
many years

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These pickups sound great!!! DiMarzio pickups are the best!!!
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Great pickup - Super Inexpensive

By: Spiff from Salt Lake City Utah (the land of the dead)      Submitted: 2/5/2008

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I bought the Super Distortion pickup to replace the stock "Duncan Designed" HB102b bridge pickup that came in my ESP (ltd) MV 200. The HB102b is sort of a cheap copy of the Duncan JB pickup except it has a personality disorder and no tone. Either ESP has their own idea of what music is about these days or else it was just a cheap cheap pickup (my money is on "cheap"). The notes never sounded right. It always seemed as though I was slightly out of tune. The basic harmonics were always flat and off. I thought my intonation was out of whack or there was something wrong with the neck. I was going to install an EMG HZ pickup since I've played through them before and liked the sound, but they don't sell these as aftermarket pickups for some reason. Or if they do, I can't find one anywhere. I also considerd the Duncan Invader and the DiMarzio Evolution, but finally decided on the Super Distortion with all the positive reviews I read at Harmony-Central.com

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