Sunday guitar

Another indoor Sunday episode (excluding morning walk). It seems that SG is abbreviating Sunday Guitar 😅 at least for my case. I never did a follow-up to this entry here: CLICK pertaining to the DiMarzio Evolution humbuckers in this guitar so here it is. I took this out to play because I needed to hear good DiMarzios in action. So DiMarzios are bad? Of course not, I personally prefer Seymour Duncans but I do pay attention to the DiMarzios that serve my needs.

The pickups in this guitar are actually an Evo 2 & an Evo. As depicted above, the bridge pickup has a rather flat response save for a little nicked treble. The neck pickup on the other hand has a slightly boosted bottom end & wee bit more treble than its bridge counterpart. There's also a little more high mids on offer.

These may be minor differences but in use, it makes all the difference. The bridge pickup sounds very biting with loads of clarity. The neck also manifests much clarity for solos despite a curbed treble response. Folks, this is strictly a Gibson - DiMarzio chemistry especially involving an SG. Please do not cascade this understanding unto your Jackson / Ibanez guitars sporting a whammy bridge & be upset with the outcome. In due fairness, the EVOs were made for Steve Vai who is using an Ibanez with a dual action whammy bridge so by virtue of this understanding, the chances of these pickups working in such a guitar is a highly likely outcome. My point in bringing this episode to you is to share the fact that the EVOs sound very appealing in Gibson SGs as well. If you kept coming across reviews of the EVOs in shred-esque guitars then let me be the one to tell you that these work wonders in other guitar types as well.