DiMarzio Slammer is the DiMarzio Axis

[zenmindbeginner]

I've come to the conclusion that the Hamer Slammer pickup is the exact same pickup as the Musicman Axis. The Slammer was also the prototype of the Tone Zone as well. The differences between the Tone Zone and the Slammer are really small. The Slammer is just a little sweeter with a little less bass and a little more presence and zing... which is the Axis pickup.

Interstingly, the Axis pup was available the minute Hamer went to SD and discontinued the Slammer pup.

The Slammer was DiMarzio's version of the JB. Nearly identical to the JB but with a little tighter bass and a trade-off of a little less upper mids in favor of a little more treble sizzle... The Q was moved downwards a little I think (or maybe higher?).

Anyways... the Tone Zone is the closest presently available production pup to the Slammer pickup.

I am dead sure of it. The AT-1 looks like it is now the true grand baby of the Slammer and might even be nearly identical to the Slammer... maybe an even better match than the Tone Zone.

Everything old is new again.

[murkat]

[Ting Ho Dung]

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

The only French I ever learned but learned it from these guys.

http://youtu.be/49q59A8OhM8

[zzzdat]

Whick pickup comes close to the single coil slammers like on a SS1, I realy like those pickups, most of the ones on my older guitars have died.

[scott from west seneca]

Oh, now you tell me, After I put in a set of PAF 36th anniversary P/Us in my 86' blitz.

But I have to say it sounds good to me. I guess I don't know what I am messing.

Are tone zone the closed to stock sound of the blitz?

[zenmindbeginner]

Whick pickup comes close to the single coil slammers like on a SS1, I realy like those pickups, most of the ones on my older guitars have died.

Those single coils had flat poles and I don't know much about them really... Duncan SSL-2s maybe?

Oh, now you tell me, After I put in a set of PAF 36th anniversary P/Us in my 86' blitz.

But I have to say it sounds good to me. I guess I don't know what I am messing.

Are tone zone the closed to stock sound of the blitz?

If your Blitz's bridge pickup was 16K or 17K I would say yes... the Slammers came in a couple of varieties a lower wound version for necks and a hotter one for the bridge.

There is absolutely no denying that your 36th Anniversary PAFs sound good in your Blitz... if they sound good to me, I would say leave it be. Plus, that is a sweet vintage output pickup... you nay not like the sound of a really hot pickup in that bridge.

[Feynman]

I've come to the conclusion that the Hamer Slammer pickup is the exact same pickup as the Musicman Axis.

Dude, you can't go saying stuff like that out in the open - they will find you.

[Disturber]

Whick pickup comes close to the single coil slammers like on a SS1, I realy like those pickups, most of the ones on my older guitars have died.

Not Duncans. They were specially made Dimarzios as well. It's been debated here on the forum before. They are made out of the slug pole bobbin from a humbucker, so it's not a regular singlecoil bobbin. They sound great but not so typically stratty.

[zorrow]

I've come to the conclusion that the Hamer Slammer pickup is the exact same pickup as the Musicman Axis.

You are the best! I'll be chasing some Musicman Axis now.

[Armitage]

Funny, I've always been impressed with the tone of the Hamer Slammer I have in an old Ibanez Lawsuit Explorer, but never with my Musicman Axis... Must be the guitars.