DiMarzio EVOLUTION vs TONE ZONE - Passive Bridge Guitar Pickup Comparison Tone Demo

Clean and distorted rhythm comparison between DiMarzio Evolution (passive) and DiMarzio Tone Zone (passive) pickups for electric guitar on the bridge position. Settings are the following:
GUITAR
Tuning: Eь / D#
Strings: D'Addario EXL140 (010-052 gauge)
AMP
Clean: EVH 5150 III profile (Kemper Profiler)
Distortion: Peavey 5150 profile (Kemper Profiler)
RECORDING TECHNIQUE:
- One centered mono track per pickup.
- Same config and EQ for both.
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00:23 Clean test
03:06 Distortion test
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[@GhettoGinny]

Amazing AMAZING VIDEO! THIS is how you do it! Short bursts of each sample. Not long drawn out segments that you won't remember when the other sample is played.

[@GuitarNewz]

Great video, cheers!

[@fernanong4070]

Both pickups are amazing but i go to Tone Zone.

[@Flatule]

If you can get your hand on a Q Tuner humbucker i'd by very curious. Let me know if its possible.

[@thephoenixcycle8854]

My bc rich 7 string came with an Evolution and at the time l didn't care for it as l wanted more and more heavierness. Got a X2N and the guitar pickup did not jive well. Now on some Dragonfire, the ones that look like Invaders. Sounds ok but voiced strange. Anyway, might switch back to the Evolutions as they sounded the best overall.

[@nickash5]

Evo is strong. Tone Zone might be the better sounding if volume pot turned down a bit. But it depends on your git too.

[@ichepurnoy]

TONE ZONE to me feels more readable when both clean and overdriven, also more natural when clean

[@user-zo1ry1ux3w]

Evo

[@dontoscano9497]

I have a few Ibanez guitars, two of them have a Tone Zone and one has an EVO. It's all a matter of opinion but the Evo blows the tone zone out of the water, especially in a band mix. The Evo just has this punch that the tone zone can't match.

[@angusorvid8840]

Both are great pups. But neither were designed for this sort of heavy percussive riffage. The Evolution was built around a particular lead tone Vai wanted with a punchy low end and the Tone Zone was a byproduct of DiMarzio's design of Eddie's pups for his Music Man, although with more low end and no Air Bucker technology. At heart the Tone Zone is a beefier JB with more low end and more cut and cut high end. The Tone Zone is designed around a hair metal sort of tone and the Evolution is a very harmonic, high sensitivity Vai pup. I say for a real crunch fest with percussive low end the best DiMarzios are the Super 3, D Activator X, Titan, and X2N. The Steve's Special also has a great, tight low end.

[@DiosDragon1111]

evo

[@DiosDragon1111]

evo-lution

[@diazzsama]

tonezone sounds a bit like typical seymour duncan pickup

[@GhettoGinny]

Ehh.... It's the Evolution for me all day long. The Tone Zone, to me, has a sloppy bass, muffled even. And in person I remember it sounding nasally.

[@dafxtone]

TONE ZONE, evo too thin and harsh !

[@yawartzzband]

Evo

[@chrisbeya6223]

Evo