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DiMarzio Breed Neck DP165

Dimarzio

DiMarzio Breed Neck DP165 If you've seen Steve Vai play in the last few years, you may have seen him playing an Ibanez Jem guitar with the word Pogo taped on the face. Steve wanted one of his instruments to have a fat, classic humbucker sound to contrast with the hotter, screaming Evolution-equipped guitars. These are the pickups we developed for him. The neck pickup is a bit louder and fatter-sounding than the PAF pro pickups that Steve used on his earliest Jems. The bridge pickup is not as hot as the Evolution, but it's got a warm and punchy mid-range coupled with a fat low end that rolls off before it can get muddy. Harmonics are easy to get, and the 4-conductor wiring coil enables cool "notch tone" coil-splitting.

Recommended For: Neck position on bolt-on trem guitars, bridge position on set-neck fixed-bridge instruments.

Tech Talk: The Breed is a bit louder and fatter-sounding than the PAF Pro that Steve used on his earliest Jems. As a neck pickup, it has more than enough power to balance with high-output bridge pickups: it will work with the Tone Zone, Super Distortion and Evolution as well as The Breed bridge model. In the bridge position, it has a very warm, hot PAF tone--really smooth, with nice harmonics.

Specifications:

Wiring 4 conductor
Magnet
Alnico 5
Output
325mV
DC Resistance
10.14K
Year of introduction
1997
Patent #
n/a