Good product

This pickup is really a surprise. It’s got a full, fat bridge tone while have great clarity at the same time. Very highly recommended if you want a more solid Tele bridge tone but not wanting a full sized humbucker sound.

The item is great but..... where’s the mounting screws? No screws.

Installed in a 200x Nashville Tele. Easy install. Like the tone for rock/funk stuff. Comparable to the Duncan Lil' 59 in my other Tele.

With any decent high-gain tube amp or analog preamp, and this pickup in a TELE, you can NAIL the tone of Jimmy's classic rock riffs. I tested this with "Whole Lotta Love" "Communication Breakdown," "Heartbreaker" and "Moby Dick." This is also perfect for Jimmy's solo on Stairway where its bite and razor edged clarity leave most humbuckers in the dust.When combined with a balanced neck pup, this gives a better-than-vintage chickin' pickin tone. It’s just as clear but LOUDER so it can push your preamp into lovely square-wave woolliness.Although it has a bit more output than vintage pups, it does not get muddy even with ridiculous gain and distortion. Of course part of that mojo comes from the 10-degree angle and position of the Tele bridge set-up, but THIS PICKUP does all the heavy lifting.The rail configuration does not exert too much magnetic drag, especially near the bridge, so these do not affect intonation even when adjusted very near the strings. These are sensitive to height adjustments, but not in a bad way. Close or near they sound good, just different. You'll need to set those adjustments with a clean tone to hear the subtle differences.For the rock tones, I've found it's better to bring the bass-side down a 16th" or so and let the 100-watt plexi and four-12" cab reproduce the low end. For smaller combo amps and cleaner sounds, you can get away with raising the low side a bit and using the tone knobs on your amp for balls. Through a twin with volume above “3” it gets all the Joe Barden / Danny Gatton bite without the boutique penury. As Danny would say, “It barks like a show-dog!”For purposes of comparison, I have six Teles: One vintage stock circa 1964, an American standard Fender with their V3 Noiseless pups and four other custom Teles. One of those has Kinman Hot tele pups, another has this barking beauty. (The other two have humbuckers so I don’t count those here)The only other pickups I know of that make less noise are the Zexcoils, and at the time I bought mine they did not yet make Tele pups. These are only slightly more noisy, equivalent to any good humbucker. If you are recording with a DAW, then the Zexcoils are definitely worth checking out. With digital amp farms and processing, you can tweak any tone you want. But for REAL LOUD TUBE AMPS in a live setting, the tiny amount of extra noise is inaudible and you will drool for the power and tone of this dual blade baddass. If you’re doing any Zep covers live, you should really check these pups out!Although this is a versatile pickup, it is not for everyone. Some prefer the old-school look of individual pole pieces. Some believe in magic mojo of vintage designs. Of course, SOME people believe in astrology and voodoo too.The only way to hear for yourself is to A-B a stock Tele against another Tele with this pup with the same licks through the same amp with the same settings in the same room. Do that, then decide to keep it or not. Remember, both DiMarzio and Seymour Duncan have liberal return policies that guarantee your satisfaction.As for myself... I'm keeping mine and building another Tele with another one of these snarlin' nasty bastards. Makes hairs on your arms and neck stand at attention.

This is my 2nd DiMarzio Telecaster pickup and found it to perform quite well! I put this in my 2008 Highway 1 Telecaster using 250k pots and the stock Highway 1 neck pickup (A3 magnet and reads around 11k). This pickup is hum free, has nice clean tone with most of the twang and can get nice and heavy with OD/Distortion. I'm running it in full humbucker mode and don't have it split in any way. I was looking at this or the Seymour Duncan Hot Rails and most of the reviews said the Hot Rails was "card board sounding". Although there were less reviews on the Chopper T, almost all the reviews were positive. I've also tried the SD Lil 59 and it would do OD/Distortion well but the clean was dull with 250k pots and 500k weren't much better. I'm playing pop, 70's and classic rock and covers everything easily!

Awesome pickup, the cleans are full and chimey and overdriven sounds are spongy yet articulate. Very balanced sounding pickup. I love it

im really impressed with this pickup. its not too beefy sounding like a regular humbucker. its just right for me. it sounds like a warmer slightly rounder single coil pickup without the hum. it sounds good through a clean amp but i think the chopper t really shines with a dirty overdriven sound. it has that nasally tone that i absolutely love so much! i have a seymour duncan hot rails on another tele and the tone on that sounds dead. not much character on the hot rails other than fat and loud.the chopper t however is absolutely fantastic! i set the pickup height on the bass side lower so when i pick the low e string near the bridge it can still twang. i paired this pickup with a twang king on the bridge of my tele and together they sound sweet. both in series and in parallel. i wired the bridge and neck pickups up to go in series using a push pull pot, and in series the the pickups gives a hot mid boost which is perfect for solos. i got that idea from richie kotzen. if you want to hear the chopper t and twang king in action just look up richie kotzen. that guy is amazing! overall, the chopper t is an excellent pickup! not too hot and not too fat, but just right.