Product Overview
The Tone ZoneĀ® S brings the famous performance of The Tone ZoneĀ® to a humbucking StratĀ® replacement pickup. DiMarzio have built in the tremendous mid-range and bass response of the original Tone ZoneĀ®, and the same patented dual-resonance design produces great harmonics. They also took into account the likelihood of installing The Tone ZoneĀ® S in the classic slanted StratĀ® bridge position, warming up the higher frequencies and brightening the low notes a little. It has 4-conductor wiring for parallel humbucking and split-coil modes, and makes a great bridge position combination with the Pro Trackā¢, The Chopperā¢, and Fast Track 1ā¢.
Recommended For
Bridge position, solid body guitars. Neck position when a very warm jazz guitar sound is required.
Tech Talk
If you compare the specs of the full-size Tone ZoneĀ® with those of The Tone ZoneĀ® S, you will notice they don't match. That's because the trick in building a single-coil size pickup to sound like its big brother is to go for the sound rather than the numbers. DiMarzio also took into account the likelihood that The Tone ZoneĀ® S will be installed in the classic slanted Strat bridge position, so they warmed up the higher frequencies and brightened the low notes a little to compensate.
Recommended For
Bridge position, solid body guitars. Neck position when a very warm jazz guitar sound is required.
Tech Talk
If you compare the specs of the full-size Tone ZoneĀ® with those of The Tone ZoneĀ® S, you will notice they don't match. That's because the trick in building a single-coil size pickup to sound like its big brother is to go for the sound rather than the numbers. DiMarzio also took into account the likelihood that The Tone ZoneĀ® S will be installed in the classic slanted Strat bridge position, so they warmed up the higher frequencies and brightened the low notes a little to compensate.