DI MARZIO D ACTIVATOR BRIDGE

Recommended For

Bridge position

Tech Talk

An interesting fact about the most popular active bridge pickups is that they aren’t incredibly loud. Instead, they have a strong, focused attack that hits the amp very hard and makes them ‘feel’ more powerful than they actually spec out to be. This is an important characteristic that we needed to capture with the D Activator™ bridge pickup. We also wanted to avoid the limiting effect that can occur with active pickups when they are played hard. Our pickup is passive with a lot of headroom, and it responds quickly and accurately to changes in pick attack. A hard pick attack doesn’t cause the signal to flatten out, and picking more softly or rolling the volume control down lets the sound clean up naturally. Like all passive pickups, D Activator™ pickups require controls with a minimum value of 250Kohms. 500K is the standard all around value, and our 1Megohm tone control is best for long cable runs.

Specs

Wiring: 4 Conductor
Magnet: Ceramic
Output mV: 470
DC Resistance: 11.41 Kohm
Year of Introduction: 2007
Patent: 4501185

Tone Guide

Treble: 6.5

Mid: 6.0

Bass: 6.0