Warning: Basswood + D-Sonic = Fail

[RandomOne]

Hello,

So the guitarist of a band I'm recording changed the pickups in his GRG250DX with Dimarzio D-Sonic and........
It fucking sounds like 3 times worse that it did.......

Why I post this?
If someone is going to put D-Sonic (DP207) on a basswood guitar DON'T DO IT

Not a rant to this pickup or the company but they don't match.

 

[ahjteam]

what was there before D-sonic?

 

[RandomOne]

Stock pups.....

 

[ahjteam]

Stock pups.....

- PSND1 in the neck position (H)
- PSNDS in the middle (S)
- PSND2 in the bridge position (H)

?

 

[RandomOne]

yes. PSND2 i'm talking about the bridge.

the guy didn't tell me that he changed them and i didn't notice and i was like "WTF the guitar sounds so worse that the last time"....

 

[pattonfreak1]

Do they tune down?
That's where the DS shines.
I have an RG7321 (basswood) with a D-Sonic 7 in the bridge and it sounds tits.

One other thing:
Is the "blade" of the pickup towards the bridge?

 

[RandomOne]

blade towards the neck - drop d tuning.

can you give me any samples with your RG?

 

[RandomOne]

btw it has an awful midrange that sounds really HARSH.
i'm messing around to get a good sound with pretty bad results.
it just not worth it.....

 

[pattonfreak1]

blade towards the neck - drop d tuning.

can you give me any samples with your RG?

The blade should be towards the bridge. Its the hotter of the 2 coils. That's where the bite is.

This is a song I did awhile back called "Jack of all trades".
The tone is PODFarm and the mix is shit but at least you'll have something to compare to. I don't think the tone is THAT bad... Maybe a tad too fizzy:

https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0BxyU...I1YzQ1&export=download&authkey=CKmUifcM&hl=en

 

[RandomOne]

i don't really like it.
on the other songs you posted on "Rate My Mix" you used the d-sonic?

 

[pattonfreak1]

Yup

 

[cyril_v]

They sounded excellent in my friends JP6 I tried out a few years ago... godlike even.

 

[RandomOne]

They sounded excellent in my friends JP6 I tried out a few years ago... godlike even.

JP6 has crunch lab.

From the site:

The stock pickups of this guitar are crunch lab that are identical to d-sonic.
So i guess you tangled them with d-sonic.
The Crunch Lab™ is noteworthy (bad pun alert!) for what it doesn’t do - it’s not a screamer, and it’s not about thundering lows. Its physical appearance is identical to the D Sonic™, but the internal design is a lot different. It’s louder, and the highs have more depth. The lows and mids are more open, and this is crucial for playing chords with body and presence through a gained-out amp. The voicing of the pickup is also different enough to the point that John prefers the Crunch Lab™ to be installed in almost all of his guitars (including the JP Bari) with the solid bar toward the neck, regardless of the guitar’s tuning.

 

[cyril_v]

..but before crunchlabs existed, they had d-sonics.

 

[RandomOne]

..but before crunchlabs existed, they had d-sonics.

:/ :/ are you sure? it was on the bridge?
it sounds like cr%p to me and i'm pretty sure
it's the guitar and not my mixing skills or something.

 

[CAlexanderParra]

Post some DIs?

 

[RandomOne]

Here's a DI from a live recording we did: HERE

 

[CAlexanderParra]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1980982/Mp3/dsonic tone.mp3

Sounds usable to me. Gonna take a lot of the player's tone in the hands to make it really shine though.

 

[RandomOne]

Sounds usable to me.

Usable: Yes
Good: No

 

[Trevoire520]

To be honest I'm surprised that you managed to find a pickup that sounds worse than the powersounds in ANY guitar. Powersounds are absolutely awful!

The stock pickups of this guitar are crunch lab that are identical to d-sonic.
So i guess you tangled them with d-sonic.
The Crunch Lab™ is noteworthy (bad pun alert!) for what it doesn’t do - it’s not a screamer, and it’s not about thundering lows. Its physical appearance is identical to the D Sonic™, but the internal design is a lot different. It’s louder, and the highs have more depth. The lows and mids are more open, and this is crucial for playing chords with body and presence through a gained-out amp. The voicing of the pickup is also different enough to the point that John prefers the Crunch Lab™ to be installed in almost all of his guitars (including the JP Bari) with the solid bar toward the neck, regardless of the guitar’s tuning.

Am I the only one who found this description hilarious!? Deeper highs and more open lows and mids? Whit?