Richie Kotzen Talks About His DiMarzio Pickups at RockExpert

Richie Kotzen Talks About His DiMarzio Pickups

Posted by: Dewa Nugraha

Versatile guitar maestro, Richie Kotzen shared an interesting information for guitar heads out there though a new video released by DiMarzio, who are keen on getting their pickup setup sounding well despite being pretty minimalist. As many guitarists might already acknowledge, Kotzen only uses two single coil pickups on his Fender Telecaster, DiMarzio Chopper T Bridge along with Twang King Neck, which both provides that tonality that really suited his guitar playing style.

Regarding the Chopper T Bridge, Kotzen revealed on how the tool has been accompanying his telecaster series since it’s being first build up for the maestro by Fender Japan. The Winery Dogs’ axeman also explained that the Chopper T provided the sounding that he really keen about, which is a kinda medium range where it’s not too loud but still enough to pull off cool sustain along with percussive sounding which often required when playing a much more aggressive  style.

Meanwhile, as for the neck pickup, Kotzen also revealed that it’s actually just a simple standard single coil gear which can be commonly found in any telecaster. Just as the Chopper T, RK’s Twang King pick up also provide that dynamic sounding range which surely helps the axeman in crafting his sound. Those simple pick up setting pretty much showcasing on how Kotzen is such a quality guitar maestro as he create an exquisite sound and playing without actually relying too much on electronic tools.

Aside from giving short explanation about his gears’ setup, Kotzen also shared stories about his new band,The Winery Dogs, sharing his fondness over the trio, consisting of other music maestro such as Billy Sheehan on bass and also Mike Portnoy on drums. The ex-Poison and Mr. Big guitarist is really exciting with the work that he and his band mates recently crafted on their debut album, which obviously a set of rocking music that captured the sound they wanted, but without losing any of each players’ characteristics.

Here is a video of Richie Kotzen Explaining About his DiMarzio pickups: