Here are some of the dimarzios I've tried.
Bridge pickups:
Tone zone - nice crunchy pickup with harmonics and a nice "vowel" or vocal sounding tone on a lead sound. May have too much bass compared to a lot of modern "metal" pickups. Has just an OK clean sound even when split.
D-sonic - this pickup has a lot of balls, great for heavy music. Not so great for clean sounds or soft picking. It's a pretty compressed pickup.
Crunch lab - a little beefier version of the D-sonic. It was a little too boomy for me. I liked the d-sonic better.
Evolution - this pickup screams. Harmonics jump out and they can sustain forever literally. surprisingly great clean sounds when split. It's pretty compressed though so not so great for soft picking dynamics.
Dominion - Very tight and agressive pickup with a TON of mids. It almost sounds like you have a wah half cocked all of the time. Not great cleans. Works for agressive in your face sound.
Fred - (satriani used to use this) It's crunchy with lots of harmonics and a light upper mid spike which gives it a signature sound. Great in all situations from cleans, soft picking, split, leads, riffs, you name it. This pickup just sounds good period. You pick hard, it crunches. You pick soft and it cleans up. This really showed me what all of the high output pickups were lacking.... Dynamics.
Neck pickups:
Air norton - nice smooth singing pickup but it still has an edge to it. Great for leads and cleans. This pickup is just a classic.
Evolution - pretty much just like a neck version of the evo bridge model. See above.
paf pro - nice bubbly sounding paf, very smooth yet with a crisp edge and harmonics. Sounds great split or humbucking, clean or with distortion. One of my favorites.
Dominion - just like a neck version of the dominion bridge. Too much treble for a neck pickup in my opinion.
breed neck - one of my favorite neck pickups. It's like a higher output version of the paf pro. maybe a little fatter sounding.
OK, I got a little carried away. I'm bored sorry.
