If you bought an Ibanez Prestige guitar, chances are, you own this humbucker- it's a DiMarzio/ IBZ pickup.
Skeptics, cynics & the disillusioned alike, often dismiss this pickup as an Eastern knock-off, something made under the DiMarzio label elsewhere, most probably produced by forced labour in the dark, inaccessible caves in the jungle of Borneo but a quick check reveals a 100%
American DiMarzio product (as this is a bridge model, you'd note the 'F' marking at the top of the base-plate indicating the pole-pieces spacing for this model). As to which specific model was used, it's actually a specialized unit made for Ibanez by the pickup manufacturer.
If you bought an Ibanez Prestige guitar, chances are, you own this humbucker- it's a DiMarzio/ IBZ pickup.
Skeptics, cynics & the disillusioned alike, often dismiss this pickup as an Eastern knock-off, something made under the DiMarzio label elsewhere, most probably produced by forced labour in the dark, inaccessible caves in the jungle of Borneo but a quick check reveals a 100% American DiMarzio product (as this is a bridge model, you'd note the 'F' marking at the top of the base-plate indicating the pole-pieces spacing for this model). As to which specific model was used, it's actually a specialized unit made for Ibanez by the pickup manufacturer.
4 comments:
Thanks for posting the photo of the back's label!
i'm doing my part to make the DiMarzio association more believeable. many people perceive it to be a licensed production unit of the real thing but these are actually the genuine article.
are those good pickups are should they be avoided?
they are definitely above average but some of us wish they could ahve been smoother sounding.
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