DIMARZIO SUPER DISTORTION HUMBUCKING PICKUP
CATEGORY: REPLACEMENT PICKUP
BY CHRIS GILL
Allan Holdsworth — playing a Strat that’s been decked out with a DiMarzio Super Distortion humbucker — performs with U.K. in New York City’s Central Park, July 7, 1978
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THE REPLACEMENT PICKUP is so commonplace these days that most guitarists have swapped pickups on at least one of their electric guitars to improve its sound. However, for about the first two decades of the electric solidbody guitar’s existence, very few players ever thought of changing their pickups, and the few who did found it wasn’t a very easy task.