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Chopper more upper mids and harmonics Mirage more bass with scooped mids

Chopper

You seem to have older model of the chopper, recently produced pickups have the same quick connect system just like mirage , with the same "magnet inside" approach and rectangular baseplate. Covers are glued into the bobbin, I don't know what is the deal with mirage, but on rest of the Dimarzio rail pickups I tried (Chopper, Pro track, Air Norton S, Fast track 1, Cruiser) is fairly easy to take that cover off . Just pull cover up gently and let glue slowly let go the cover. That glue is pretty soft and flexible. So under the tension it will come off from plastic. I did it many times without any issues or any additional tools. it's like 30 seconds job. Never had Mirage so YMMV

MIrrage 🤟🤟🤟❤️‍🔥

Great professional and useful video 🤟

The Mirage has a little more bass. More harmonics with the Chopper

The Duncan Distortion is one of the best bridge pickups for metal, ever. For cleans I'd coil split or go parallel.

I like the Mirage. Don't forget the harmonics a ceramic magnet brings to the table.

amazing comparison

In this sample, I cant hear no difference what so ever

i liked the "oohmph" from the titans better, but the mirage has this nice cutting edge to it! Can´t go wrong with either

These are great with high gain…. Terrible on the clean imo 🥸

Say I put one of these on a telecaster in the bridge position. What would pair well as a neck pickup ?

I wonder if DiMarzio was worried about a placebo effect, by advertising the virtual vintage slugs in a high-gain pickup. Both the “vintage” name and the concept of extra slugs would give someone pause… but understanding what they do, it’s actually really cool. Now I’m curious to know if the D Activators use them, because it would help solve a major problem in replicating active pickups (perceived loudness w/o adding DCR)

All I want is a bridge pickup, humbucker, single, doesn't matter. Just nothing but one pickup and a volume knob

His voice even sounds like the middle pickup.

If you ever felt useless know that the middle pickup exists

Jerry Garcia would like a word

I pretty much daily the middle pickup. Is that weird?

I love the middle tho 😭

What abt the hum?

It’s interesting with the introduction of the mirage. Jake has stated he’s still going to be using his titans and it seems he’s using them in his 7 and 8 string. So the mirage is for his 6 strings. Usually once a new pickup comes out they completely switch. But he still likes his titans.

Great video, well done.. I've been a big fan of the Chopper in the bridge, especially the T version. Might look at trying a Mirage for the neck though in the future!

I have a Titan in the bridge of an ash body prestige. It does everything ive asked it to and is the favorite pickup in my band with 2 other guitar players.

For year's Gus's guitars came with a Duncan Distortion and '59. He didn't get into active pickups until he got the gig with Ozzy

I prefer dimarzio titan :)

Big supporter of Gus G! Guy is a firebreather on guitar! Plus he is one of the coolest guys to talk gear with. Glad to see you have hooked up with him and his pu's.

@Guiyar Pickup Database, I love these comparison breakdowns! Is there any way you can do this comparison between a Tone Zone and the Custom wound Dimarzio bridge in the EBMM axis guitar? Dimarzio swears these two are "Very similar" in tone BUT many including myself have tested both and found them to not be all that similar? You would be the first to publish the results of these two on a video in the same guitar and heights . No one has ever done a video on it.

I typically despise the sound of neck pickups in 24 fret guitars. I would love to see manufacturer design a humbucker specifically for them.

Great video as always. I think it would be interesting to do the Chopper bridge in the neck, vs the Mirage. Most of us who use the Chopper in the neck are using the bridge version because of Andy Timmons.

I liked Titan's articulation much more than under the blanket Mirage.

One of the best vids on YT regarding the topic. Great and truly professional job!!!

I have this set. Purchased more than one year ago for my Jackson.

Would be interesting to compare the mirage to the cruiser, they seem very similar, rather bright and single coily sounding.

I completely agree on the watermarks on pickups, I can´t stand it. Would paint it black with a permantent marker.

Dude that is an amazing story. Really nice pickups too.

That intro music is so cool! Release it!

Amazing! Thank you for the demo! I love how clear each section was and how the pickups were demoed for multiple different styles. Plus the tone was 👌

I have Chopper with this solderless plug system. Looks like all new DiMarzio rail pups have it. Also solderless Custom Shop FRED humbucker. Mirage resembles me FRED with slightly cut bass.

Chopper seems like the clear winner to my ears.

I like the Sean ashes lick played through that

DiMarzio used to list the patents used on each page for each pickup. I remember copy-pasting them into Google and skimming the patents. They stopped doing that a while back, not sure why.

Genuinely surprised by how single coily they sound! I mean it's still very different but they still retain that touch of SC

I personally would not like to see more SC pickups on the genre. Unless you go pretty non-traditional, most of them sound so scratchy and squealchy under high-gain, not to mention the noise. The ones that work best are IME P90's or Duncan QP's, neither of which are really "Strat-type". Then again, this pickup is not a single coil.

Thx even I can not hear any difference on the distorted tones.

should do the satch track in the mix. I think it is also based on the chopper!

Can you talk about the dimarzio virtual solo and the fast track 1?

I play with Seymour Duncan Nazgûl bridge on both my 6 and 7 string setups which are in drop C and drop F# I am open to a new neck pickup I play a wide range of music but mostly modern metal Any advice ?

Man I’m so glad you started this channel. Amazing work

i am was looking at this single twin blade to go in the middle of my sugar chadra bridge and DActivator neck pickup. What else would you recommend? The super distortion single? Maybe. Although maybe that base is covered by the sugar. Just trying to get a wide array of detail on the strings while playing a really thrash def black metal kind of thing that has jazzy and shrilly things going on. It is like a groovey rythum metal with hook riffs and some key changes. I figure either the chopper , mirage, or bareknuckle cobras can give some pick detail in the middle, however also thought on P90's just do not know one with enough blazing blown hair back midrange zing. The single coils don't do that, however just thinking of some sounds. i am like the fact of the Neo magnet giving it some bandwidth. Really like the IGNO humbucker as well as all the dual resonance tech pickups. Well anything leading to mine landing correctly and awesome combo be much appreciated thanks for any other ideas and for this great tech video of science and chemistry..