Recommended for bridge position. It might look like a Strat guitar pickup, but the SDS-1 adds balls, gain and warmth reminiscent of the best old soapbar pickups. The adjustable pole pieces don't pull as hard as regular rod magnets, so you can get the pickup closer to the strings for stronger output. The highs are less exaggerated and the bottom is deeper than most singles for a rounder, darker tone. If your guitar's bridge position sound is too edgy, without the push needed to drive your amp, remedy the situation with an SDS-1 . Add a pair of Class of 55 pickups for sparkle, or a Class of 55 in the neck and an FS-1 in the middle for even tone choices.

The bar magnets that power the SDS-1 are ceramic, but the sound and feel are very similar to Alnico-equipped soapbars, partly due to the big steel polepieces and spacer bar. This type of magnet structure also has noticeably less magnetic pull than standard rod-magnet pickups, even though the output is very high for a single-coil.

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DiMarzio DP111 SDS-1 Guitar Pickup Specifications:

• Wiring: 2-Conductor Classic
• Magnet: Ceramic
• Output: 200mV
• DC Resistance: 8.68K

DiMarzio DP111 SDS-1 Guitar Pickup

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Great Distortion

Posted by Big Mike from Ft. Lauderdale on Aug 3, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: active musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock,Blues,Metal

I put this Dimarzio sds in the bridge in my American Roadhouse strat. Wow,what a change. It now has a beefy, nasty distortion tone that i couldnt get out of the stock Fender pickup. The only problem I have with it is that it is a little noisy, but not anymore than the stock, so its a trade off there. I am pretty picky when it comes to guitar sound and I was pleasantly surprised with this. At this price,you cant beat it. My strat is much more versatile because of the addition.

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Good Call

Posted by Frankenstrat from Corvallis OR on Oct 1, 2007

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Reviewer's Background: Recording Artist

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock

Just installed this pickup in the bridge position of my custom strat style guitar. It is not as trebly as the original '62 reissue pickup I had in it. I might move it around, being as I am always looking for the elusive "Perfect Tone". was quite impressed considering I usually prefer SD Pickups.

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Very close to Humbucker sound, but noisy

Posted by Webslinger from Northern NJ on Dec 1, 2006

Experience w/product: I have heard about it

Reviewer's Background: Semi-Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Classic & Southern Rock, some Alternative

If you’re looking for Humbucker sound in a single coil, this is a good choice. I installed mine at the bridge, to replace the thin-sounding original pickup of an early 80’s Japanese-made Fender Strat (these era Strats are not bad structurally, but the pickups are terrible). I wanted a more of a humbucker sound but did NOT want to route the body, and wanted to keep the triple-singlecoil appearance. When played clean it has more low-midrange than the original pickup, but wont sound completely clean due to the windings. Purists may not like it. But when you use amp-gain or a distortion pedal, WOW… this thing screams! It’s not like a hot bluesy overdriven sound, like Hendrix, ZZ, or SRV. No, it goes way beyond that, approaching shred. But still retains the original look at first glance (the pickup itself looks like half of a Dimarzio HB with the hex-head adjustable poles) Now here’s the downside;

1- When saturated, you get extreme distortion, but it’s more toward the high end, not low & chunky like a real HB, so you have to EQ the midrange & bass up on the amp 2- This pickup is NOISY. If there is any 60cycle buzz in the house electric power this will pick it up. Same thing if there are any TVs, Neon bar signs, etc close by. If you play loud for an entire song, it’s ok, but during quiet parts (like the silent pauses in “WarPigs”), you’ll hear a buzz, and must quickly turn down the volume, a real pain. Keeping the volume knob no higher than 8 helps but then you loose some saturation. I use a noise-gate pedal, it helps a lot. 3- Using this pickup with the stock middle one, you loose the out-of-phase duck-quack tone on pickup setting 2. It instead produces a nasty thin sound that is almost unusable. I read somewhere that adding a hot bluesy pickup in the middle, helps this problem a little.

But if you can get past these issues, this pickup is dynamite!

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