FRED humbuckers take the PAF Pro up a notch with more gain, mid EQ and overtones. It's a sound with more crank and growl. FRED's wide, fat tone fills up a lot of space in the mix: a great pickup with combined lead / rhythm styles and power trio gigs. FRED is really sensitive to changes in pick attack. Digging in hard pushes the tone from crunch to overdrive without running back to the rig to change the gain settings. Rolling back the volume knob on the guitar warms up the sound without losing snarl and bite.
- Works well in both bridge and neck positions
- Recommended for solid, semi, and hollowbody guitars
- Wide, fat tone
- Able to emphasize upper midrange and treble harmonics through an overdriven and distorted amp
- Gets tighter and brighter with more distortion
- Warms when guitar volume is rolled back but keeps its bite
- Sweet, round vintage tone with guitar tone rolled back
- Standard 4-conductor wiring
- Alnico V magnets
- Output 305mV
- !0.07K DC resistance
DiMarzio DP153 FRED Pickup
The DiMarzio DP153 FRED Pickup is for neck and bridge positions - suitable for solid, semi, and hollowbody guitars. DiMarzio FRED humbuckers are like the PAF Pro with more gain, mid EQ, and overtones. The DiMarzio FRED gives you a wide, fat tone with more crank and growl. Also very responsive to picking so you can pick harder to shift from crunch to overdrive. Great for combined lead/rhythm players. In power trios, the FRED pickup helps fill the mix. For straight-in recording, the DiMarzio FRED lets you make the changes from your guitar.
FRED© is built to bump the mid-range of the PAF Pro© EQ up a notch, but in the process, something unusual happened. Harmonics that humbuckers usually don t reproduce started popping out, particularly with overdriven amps and distortion units. FRED© has about the same power as the PAF Pro©, but the unusual overtones create a sound with more crank and growl. Joe Satriani was the first player to discover and exploit these qualities, and it s been his main bridge pickup ever since. FRED© is really sensitive to changes in pick attack and control settings, and its distinctive tone makes a great recorded sound for both penetrating solos and tight rhythm tracks.
The Fred© started out as a prototype designed to add a little midrange to the PAF Pro©. When we sent one of the first ones to Joe Satriani, he discovered and exploited a unique tonal characteristic - the Fred©'s ability to emphasize upper midrange and treble harmonics through an overdriven and distorted amp. Many standard humbuckers have a tendency to fatten up with distortion. The Fred© does the opposite; it gets tighter and brighter, much like a single-coil. Joe uses the Fred© strictly as a bridge pickup, but it's also a distinctive neck pickup - works really well with a Norton©, Tone Zone© or Evolution© bridge model.
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- Wiring: 4-conductor
- Magnet: Alnico 5
- Output: 305
- DC resistance: 10.07
- Year of introduction: 1989
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"this was the missing piece "
by Jordan Arledge -
9/30/2005 9:36:04 AM
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I had a Fred a few years ago and wasn't happy with it. I was playing metal and my only source of gain was a line 6 pod, yeah I was stupid. So now I have much better gear and I am playing more instrumental rock style stuff. The Fred fills out my sound, things are smoother and yet have cut. The Fred isn't just a one sound pickup, don't let the thought of sounding like Joe Satriani scare you away from this pickup . It is a solid choice for anyone looking to smooth out their sound, yet retain brightness and clarity. Since the Fred isn't a high output pickup, it cleans up nicely. If you have a super high gain amp, the pickup lets you take advantage of the amps gain without loosing the definition that some higher output pickups would do with the same amount of gain . This pickup can do a Greg Howe type sound, to the satch sound, to even a sound similar to Steve Vai. The pickup in dual sound mode is great. It brightens up more and sounds like you are almost playing with a wah pedal stuck in the middle. I can say that this pickup will be a workhorse pickup for me in years to come, it is so versatile and easy to work with.
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