![]() It wasn’t like it was smushed together, the way I wanted it. When I’d add some dirt to the cleaner pickups, it was just a clean sound that was coated with distortion. It seemed that distortion pickups were too distorted for me and clean pickups always had a poppy sound that was almost like a Strat®. I was always trying to find a pickup with super-high output and lots of gain and I’d tried out lots of different pickups. ![]() ![]() I realized that there was not a pickup out there that did exactly what I wanted it to do. Since then, I’ve switched over to Washburn guitars and those guitars needed a new pickup that would work well with them and give me the sound I want. Those pickups went out of production and became hard to find. GroundWire: Tell us about the creation of the Dimebucker and how this pickup was voiced.ĭimebag Darrell: When I was playing the old Dean® guitars, I found a pickup which fit that guitar. Dime became the trendsetter–a modern metal god that today’s players venture to emulate.ĭime tells GroundWire about the development of his new signature model pickup, the SH-13 Dimebucker, and gives us the scoop on how he shapes his trademark sound both onstage and in the studio. Rather than to follow the trends set by others, Dime raised the bar for metal guitarists by creating a sound that was even heavier and more brutal than his predecessors. Bred on classic rock and heavy metal, Dime analyzed the styles and tones of his favorite players, then forged his own signature style and sound with Pantera. I’m very proud of the work I did with him, but who knows what he would have accomplished if he was still with us.Dimebag Darrell is a player who needs little introduction. Dean Zelinsky of Dean said in 2010 that Abbott’s death was a “bigger loss than we’ll ever know. He also designed a signature pickup with Seymour Duncan titled the Dimebucker, which was based on the Bill Lawrence pickups that he used in most of his guitars. With Dunlop Manufacturing, he designed the Dimebag Cry Baby from Hell, a wah-wah pedal, and the Dime Distortion, a distortion pedal. Dimebag helped design many other products. Abbott also invested in the company and designed an amplifier named the Krankenstein he approved the final revision of the Krankenstein just days before his murder. He used the Krank Revolution, a tube amplifier. Dimebag subsequently formed a partnership with Krank Amplifiers, a relatively small supplier. When Dimebag’s endorsement deal with Washburn ended, his deal with Randall also ended, as Randall and Washburn both were subsidiaries of the U.S. The noise gate allowed him to control the feedback associated with high levels of gain, and to create the distinctive holes of silence in his playing. Dimebag also used a Digitech whammy pedal, a Korg DT-7 chromatic tuner and a Rocktron Hush IIC noise gate. He set his Furman EQ to boost the highs and lows while scooping the mids, and he used both the Furman EQ and MXR EQ to increase the gain to the Randall's front end. The goal was to replicate the sound of his own rig: a Randall RG-100 head, Furman PQ-3 parametric equalizer, MXR six-band graphic equalizer and MXR 126 flanger. I knew that with time I could make it my own sound, and it came around." Dimebag released a signature amplifier, the Randall Warhead, in 1999. Abbott used solid-state Randall amplifiers for most of his career he remarked in the liner notes for Cowboys from Hell: "Gotta have that Randall Crunch!" He had won his first Randall amplifier in a guitar contest he said in a 1993 interview it "was a little nasty sounding, a little gritty, but I liked it. Dean also posthumously released replicas of the Dean from Hell.ĭimebag was praised for his instrumental tone and was included in Guitar Player's list of "The 50 Greatest Tones of All Time". Dimebag had designed the Dean Razorback and Razorback V in the months prior to his death. ![]() Darrell's murder came shortly before the Dean contract was set to begin. When his contract with Washburn expired in 2004, he became the main endorsee of the re-opened Dean. With Washburn, he played various signature guitars modeled after the ML, such as the Dime 333, Culprit and Stealth. Dean went out of business in 1994 and Abbott then signed a ten-year contract with Washburn Guitars. After the release of Cowboys from Hell, Dimebag signed an endorsement deal with Dean Guitars.
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