You are certainly entitled to your opinion, as we are to ours. I mentioned JohnБ─≥s name because he (like you) is one of our clients, and we naturally wanted his opinion before changing the composition of the baseplates. His opinion was that it did not affect the sound.
I watched the video you pointed out. I found it interesting that the viewer comments were far from unanimous in agreeing that the nickel baseplates were better or different. I am sorry we cannot come to the same conclusion as you have.
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Sent: Friday, June 3, 2022 6:17 AM
To: DiMarzio Tech <tech@dimarzio.com>
Subject: RE: requesting help with pickup base plates
Thank you for your reply.
I am absolutely convinced John Petrucci has probably the best ears in the business, that's why he's been pursueing his tone for decades, that includes numerous changes in the appointments to his guitars (pickups. electronics, woods) as well as his recording and live gear.
However I do not see why I should care about HIS ears, I'm tailoring MY own sound, my own tone and I know what I am particularly after. I'm disappointed how my attitude to your products that I have been using for years (that includes using a stock EBMM JP7 as well deliberate swapping from the stock Seymour Duncans on my current guitar) doesn't connect to the attitude of your company to its clients.
You may or may not agree, but you might want to watch the following excerpt. This is not the only one that I've watched, there are more. I didn't make it nor have any relation to the maker and/or guitar or gear in the video.б═
You might be interested (although probably you wouldn't agree) what moniker one of the pickups in question has acquired. That's an interesting matter, why that is
https://youtu.be/-JdK8R5AXUc03.06.2022, 05:03, DiMarzio Tech <tech@dimarzio.com>
We do not make nickel silver baseplates for our 7-string pickups. Further, the baseplates on the 6-string Crunch Lab and Liquifire are not nickel silver. They are brass. We do not agree that changing the baseplates of the 7-string pickups to nickel silver will substantially change or improve pickup performance. We tested and researched this subject before employing fiberglass baseplates. It is much more likely that the difference you hear is the result of the individual guitars not being acoustically identical, rather than any sonic difference resulting from the composition of the baseplates. I can also assure you that John Petrucci has very good ears, and is very capable of noticing differences (if any) between his signature 6 and 7-string pickups.
DiMarzio Inc.
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2022 3:02 AM
To: DiMarzio Tech <tech@dimarzio.com>
Subject: requesting help with pickup base plates
Greetings everyone,
thank you so much for your products. I totally enjoyed the sound of my EBMM JP7 with the great Crunch Lab / Liqui Fire set.
So when I sold the guitar (I totally hated the trem) I wanted to recreate thatб═ sound in my ESP E-II seven-string. I bought a set ofб═Crunch Lab 7 / Liqui Fire 7 from another EBMM JP7б═ and had it installed in my guitar, observing the diagrams on the DiMarzio site. Utilized a Bourns 500B pot for volumeб═ and a 500A for tone. However, itб═ just doesn't sound right. I do know the difference in installing the pickups with specific coils towards the bridge or neck, but that's not the case.
From a number of posts in the internet and videos from YouTube I found that people who had the same issue modded the pickups by swapping the base plate fromб═ textolite to nickel silver kind of what is used on their 6-string versions. I liked the result in the videos too. So I would like to go that way , and I'm ready to do it at my own risk.
Could you please sell me two nickel silver baseplates that will fit the abovementioned pickups or, if that is totally not possible, could you please advise what I could do
Thank you,
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