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Encyclopedia > DiMarzio

DiMarzio (full name: DiMarzio Musical Instrument Pickups, Inc.) is a US-based electronic manufacturing company, famous for its guitar pickups. Company also produces miscellaneous guitar accessories, such as cables, straps and hardware. Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... A pickup device acts as a detector and captures mechanical vibrations (usually from suitably equipped stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, electric bass guitar and violin) and converts them to an electronic signal which can be amplified and recorded. ...


DiMarzio became known for its Super Distortion model, which was the first after market replacement guitar pickup available to the mass market. It is still one of the most popular models. A pickup device acts as a detector and captures mechanical vibrations (usually from suitably equipped stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, electric bass guitar and violin) and converts them to an electronic signal which can be amplified and recorded. ...


The super distortion pickup produced a higher electrical output than the pickups normally fitted as standard to guitars at the time. It has around twice the impedance of a PAF type pickup, and a stronger ceramic magnet. This drove the input stage of guitar amplifiers with roughly twice as much voltage as a PAF pickup, so that an overdriven distorted sound was easier to obtain. P.A.F. or just PAF is a famous first in the world humbucker guitar pickup, invented by Seth Lover in 1955 as an engineer for Gibson and started to be used in mass production guitars in about 1956 or 1957. ... Ceramic are the most common, ordinary household magnets. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...


Two of the technologies that they are known for are:

  • their patented Dual-Resonance design which uses two asymmetrical coils tuned to different frequencies to produce unique sounds.
  • their Airbucker (tm) design which reduces string pull and increases sensitivity and sustain.

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References

Lawrence P. DiMarzio holds following US patents:

  • US4,133,243 (PDF version) (1979-01-09) DiMarzio, Lawrence P. Electric pickup 
  • US4,227,434 (PDF version) (1980-10-14) DiMarzio, Lawrence P. Adjustable soundhole mount for a musical pickup 
  • US4,320,829 (PDF version) (1982-03-23) DiMarzio, Lawrence P.; Altilio, Daniel Merchandise display container  — a special container for merchandising pickups.
  • US4,442,749 (PDF version) (1984-04-17) DiMarzio, Lawrence P.; Blucher, Steven L. Electrical pickup for a stringed instrument having ferromagnetic strings 

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