Chords for DiMarzio Ionizer 8 Guitar Pickups for Tosin Abasi

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_ _ _ _ [G#] So what I've got here is a set of brand new DiMarzio pickups that I had the pleasure of
designing with Steve Blucher.
And we went back and forth a bunch trying to hone in on characteristics that we wanted
to bring out of an 8 string pickup that we weren't necessarily finding in other pickups.
For the neck, I definitely wanted something that was a bit backed off in output so it
has like an open [Bm] airy quality to it, rich in the low end, and just translated a lot
of the finger style stuff well.
I think we got something good going on.
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_ _ _ [G#] So for the bridge pickup, we wanted something that was a little bit lower in output as well
because I actually feel like it translates the actual sound of the guitar a bit better.
A little less of a compressed sound which allows for a lot more articulation to come through.
_ _ And sometimes I actually use the bridge pickup for finger picking stuff too so the slightly
lower output kind of allows some of those clean tones to not [C] sound as harsh. _
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_ _ _ _ [A] You know, part of the way these pickups are voiced I think really allows for the guitar
to truly speak and I think that comes [E] with this idea that they don't have to be necessarily super hot.
Even for use for high gain stuff, you're actually going to get more clarity for one,
you're going to hear the dynamics of you digging in.
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[Em] _ So _ [B] _ _ _ _
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] you know, all those different, all the galloping, all the palm muting, I think is
actually really complimented by the fact that the pickups are a bit backed off and we really
wanted something that just lets the wood speak through your tone so they're killing.
So I'm actually holding the first prototype for a signature guitar that I've designed
with Ibanez and I think it's really cool.
One of the unique things about it is the approach to selecting the woods was actually based
on a bass guitar because I have more low end to represent.
So we decided to go with _ wenge neck which is a really, really hard [G#] material and it's
reinforced with bubinga and _ we've got a swamp ash body which is lightweight and kind of
really kind of lets [E] the mid-range and openness of the [B] guitar kind of speak.
Steve had an idea of incorporating a single coil pickup, not as a stand-alone pickup but
as a means to beef up some of the parallel settings out of a five-way switch.
So I've got it set to where the middle pickup and the coil closest to the neck create this
sort of out of phase sound but I didn't want it to drop in volume and hence we have this
pickup here to reinforce the output of it.
And you get this really _ spanky sort of_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] In the center I have these two humbuckers selected but _
_ [Cm] _ I have a mini toggle for a coil
tap so it allows for_
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_ _ [E] _ _ So it's [F] just nice to have that option in that middle setting.
And then if I bring it down to the second to last setting here I have these coils which
is a bit more unique than having [B] the two parallel coils and that's just more of a_
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_ [C] _ _ [A#] So for me it's all about the articulation for some of these more unique techniques that
I'm doing but it also translates well [F#m] into more [F#] even like tapping. _
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_ _ So the guitar just has a lot of different voices to it which I think is [F#] going to be
extremely useful in the studio as well as live and for an eight string that's definitely
unique because I think they've kind of [A] restricted what the eight string application could be.
It's usually quite [G#] metal and for me I think there's so much more you can do with this
guitar besides just high gain stuff.
But if you wanted to do high gain stuff_
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[B] You know, totally works out for [F#] distortion. _ _ _
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_ _ So I feel like I got all my basses covered for the first time on an eight string guitar
and it's pretty magical.
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