DiMarzio DP155 The Tone Zone vs Seymour Duncan SH-11 Custom Custom Pickup
The DiMarzio DP155 The Tone Zone and the Seymour Duncan SH-11 Custom Custom Pickup are both others sharing full, compressed, mid-forward.
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Blended 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.52% — moderately similar
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Metal
- Rock
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- full
- compressed
- mid-forward
- bright
Seymour Duncan SH-11 Custom Custom Pickup
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$81via Reverb
The DiMarzio DP155 Tone Zone is a high-output humbucker pickup known for its thick, compressed midrange punch and substantial low-end weight, widely used across rock and metal for its aggressive, powerful bridge-position character. It became one of DiMarzio's most popular and widely imitated high-output designs since its introduction, prized for pushing amps into thick, saturated overdrive.
The Seymour Duncan SH-11 Custom Custom is a bridge humbucker built on the same coil-winding as the SH-5 Custom but with the ceramic magnet swapped for alnico 2. The softer magnet pulls back the treble edge and thickens the midrange, giving a warmer, more compressed and vocal lead voice than the Custom it derives from, while retaining a moderately high output suited to rock and blues-rock.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Jazz
- Hard Rock
- Blues Rock
- Classic Rock