DiMarzio The Breed – DP166FBK Guitar Bridge Pick Up F Spaced
All DiMarzio full-size humbuckers are available with both standard and F-spaced pole pieces. F-spacing is slightly greater, and should be used for the bridge position on almost all guitars with tremolo bridges or wide string-spacing. Guitars with a nut width of 1-11/16″ (43 mm) or greater should use F-spaced pickups in the neck position as well.
If you’re a fan of Steve Vai, you’ve probably 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 enables cool notch tone coil-splitting.
Tech Talk
The Breed™ was designed to warm up and smooth out the sound of 25½” scale trem guitars. Its got a lot more power than a PAF®, but it also has a finer “touch” than high-output models. Picking hard will generate a lot of voltage, but a softer attack will clean up the sound of an overdriven amp.
Magnet: Alnico 5
Output mV: 356
DC Resistance: 16.32 Kohm
Year of Introduction: 1997
Patent: n/a
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