DiMarzio DP116 HS-2 vs Fender Hot Noiseless Stratocaster Pickups

The DiMarzio DP116 HS-2 and the Fender Hot Noiseless Stratocaster Pickups are both others sharing transparent, high gain, glassy. The Fender Hot Noiseless Stratocaster Pickups leans aggressive and sustaining. Current prices: $89 vs $104.99.

Similarity
citedBlended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.

50% — somewhat different

Shared genres
citedGenres both listings are associated with.
  • Blues
Shared tone character
citedDerived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.
  • transparent
  • high gain
  • glassy

DiMarzio DP116 HS-2

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Price

$89via Reverb

$104.99via Reverb

Description

The DiMarzio HS-2, catalogue number DP116, is a humbucker-sized pickup built with a stacked single-coil design, aiming to deliver single-coil clarity and quack while cancelling the 60-cycle hum that plagues true single-coils, without requiring the routing changes a full humbucker conversion demands. That makes it a common upgrade for guitars built around single-coil-sized pickup cavities where players want more noise immunity. Both Phil Collen of Def Leppard and Eric Johnson, known for very different but equally exacting clean and lead tones, are associated with this pickup.

The Fender Hot Noiseless Stratocaster Pickups are high-output single-coil pickups delivering aggressive tone without noise. Their noise-canceling design provides suitable output for rock and metal. The Hot Noiseless appeal to players seeking powerful single-coil tone.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
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  • Blues Rock
  • Metal
  • Rock
Tonal lean
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  • aggressive
  • sustaining
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