Titan Neck Humbucker Pickup - Black Review

Excellent Pickup

I recently replaced the Dimarzio Deactivator pickups in my Ibanez RG2550Z Prestige with the Dimarzio Titan Bridge and Neck pickups. While I still like the sound of the Deactivators, the Titans sound much better (in my opinion). I already wrote a review for the bridge pickup. Here's my review of the neck pickup: The Titan Neck, like the Bridge, has a tigjter low end. It's less… read more "boomy" than the Deactivator while still maintaining a rich, thick tone that puts some meat on the bones of your chords. The mids and highs are just perfect. When it comes to clean tones, this is the best clean humbucker I've ever played through. Even better than the PRS 85/15 pickups in my PRS-CE24. It's so crisp and the clarity is makes the clean channel on my Mesa Dual Rectifier amp sound less like a Dual Rectifier and more like the much cleaner Mesa JP2-C clean channel. If you know anything about Mesa amps, then you know the Dual Rectifier clean channel is NOT the greatest (i.e. too pushed and too much breakup on the high end). For distorted tones, the Titan Neck is great for lead guitar playing. The attack is very nice and the notes maintain their clarity everywhere on the fretboard. If you're like me, you probably hate how muddy most neck pickups get when you play notes on the 4th, 5th and 6th strings above the 12th fret. I hate it when the low end comes through so hard that it kills all the mids and highs. And any melody or series of notes you play sound like a blurred mess. The Titan does NOT have this problem. It produces a balanced EQ with right amount of attack so that each note you play is clear and distinct. Bottom line, there's a reason Jake Bowen's guitar pops in the dense mix of Periphery's live shows. And that reason is the Titan.

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Very Rich Tone

I ordered a new Ibanez S-Series with Titans custom installed replacing the stock DiMarzios. These are the pickups used by Periphery guitarist Jake Bowen. Highly recommend.

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