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A Gibson Les Paul featuring DiMarzio humbuckers with characteristic double-cream bobbins. DiMarzio, Inc. (formerly DiMarzio Musical Instrument Pickups, Inc.) is an American manufacturing company best known for popularizing direct-replacement guitar pickups. The company also produces other accessories, such as hardware, guitar straps, and ...
Tom Scholz uses a 1968 Les Paul Goldtop with a DiMarzio SuperDistorion pickup in the bridge. Neal Schon uses a heavily modified Les Paul, including a Floyd Rose locking tremolo, custom electronics and sustainer unit. Gibson produces a signature model of Schon's guitar.
Evo is the name that Steve Vai has given to his primary stage and recording guitar, an Ibanez JEM7VWH. It was co designed by Vai and guitar manufacturer Ibanez in 1987. 'Evo' still retains identical specifications to the production model, with several aesthetic modifications.
The DiMarzio "Super Distortion" pickup, introduced in 1972, was the first after-market replacement guitar pickup. With its much-increased output compared to humbuckers installed in guitars of the time, it became an instant favourite of many hard-rock guitarists, and it remains a popular choice for a pickup upgrade decades later.
While PAF pickups were closely associated with Gibson guitars, the brand never marketed them as such, as selling individual pickups did not become commonplace until DiMarzio pioneered the replacement pickup market in the 1970s. DiMarzio was granted the trademark for "PAF" in 1978, with the company claiming to have been the first to use the term ...
Schuldiner used a simple setup. For most of his career, his main guitar was a B.C. Rich Stealth fitted with a single DiMarzio X2N bridge pickup. For his amplification, Schuldiner used a Marshall Valvestate 8100 head played through a Marshall Valvestate VS412 cabinet.