Mark Knopfler

Role

Singer Guitarist Composer

Genre

Rock Folk, World, & Country Blues

Group

Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes Dire Straits Eric Clapton & His All Star Band

Credits

One Deep River Ahead Of The Game Watch Me Gone

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Role

Singer Guitarist Composer

Genre

Rock Folk, World, & Country Blues

Group

Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes Dire Straits Eric Clapton & His All Star Band

Credits

One Deep River Ahead Of The Game Watch Me Gone

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Justin Guitar

Music Lessons and Instruction

Mark Knopfler is quoted on the Justin Guitar website saying:

If you told me you wanted to get going on guitar I'd recommend Justin Sandercoe.

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Fender Custom Shop Texas Special Stratocaster Pickups

Electric Guitar Pickups

In a performance of "Sultans of Swing," Mark Knopfler uses Fender Custom Shop Texas Special Strat Pickups on his Fender Stratocaster, as shown in a video by Michael Egger on YouTube.

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EMG 85 Active Alnico Humbucker

Electric Guitar Pickups

His signature Suhr model has EMG 85 in bridge position.

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DiMarzio DP110 FS-1 Pickup

Electric Guitar Pickups

DiMarzio has been producing replacement pick-ups for Fender and Gibson guitars since the early 70ies. Back then, a lot of players had the wish for hotter pick-ups to get more distortion from their amps – remember that high-gain amps, tube pre-amps and the like were a development that started in the 80ies. So most DiMarzio pick-ups were simply hotter replacements for the standard pick-ups. Hotter normally means the pick-up is wound with more coils. This does not only lead to more output but also to a fatter tone with more midrange and less treble. Consequently one of DiMarzio’s most popular models was the Fat Strat, or in short FS-1 (today also called model DP-110). There is no direct evidence that it was this model in Mark Knopfler’s Strat, however, the DiMarzio product line was not big, and the only other Strat pick-up they offered at that time was the SDS-1, which had adjustable pole pieces – something you would see on pictures, and Knopfler’s Strat did not have these.

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