It's got the same low string-pull as our other Airbuckers for singing sustain, plus it has the big bass response and cool harmonics of The Tone Zone, with extra sensitivity and control.

It's a great match for very hot amps, allowing the player to take full advantage of massive preamp gain without turning the sound to mud or fuzzy noise.

It's also a great neck pickup for jazz players who need to get the hollow-body archtop sound from a solid body, and it offers exceptionally good split and series-parallel capability.

Recommended For: Bridge position primarily (see Tech Talk for neck position application) in solid body and semihollow body guitars.

Tech Talk: Ultra-fat PAF sound with more output.

The dynamic range from soft to hard picking is very wide, and the combination of dual-resonance coils with the Airbucker magnetic field allows sustained notes to hang on to harmonic overtones longer, instead of becoming muddy as they fade.

Will also work as a very warm, full neck pickup for jazz sound, and combine with Tone Zone, Super Distortion and Super 3 in bridge position.

This means there is more control over the musical subtleties that allow good players to create their own individual sounds.

Airbucker technology was created to capture all of the best sonic qualities of vintage humbuckers while avoiding the technical problems.

The Air Classic has the same sweet sound as a classic humbucker, but Airbucker technology uses more reliable full-strength Alnico 5 magnets and still reduces string-pull to increase sustain and sensitivity.

The result is an almost vocal, three-dimensional sound that jumps off the string faster and stays true as it sustains.

The sense of touch and control this provides will offer you an unequaled ability to create your own sound.

Recommended for use in the neck position when combined with Air Classic bridge model and neck position in combination with hotter humbuckers.

For all solidbody, hollow, and semi-hollowbody guitars.

Tech Talk: There's no doubt that a weak magnetic field allows a vibrating string to ring longer, but the standard Alnico 2/weakened Alnico 5 method also muddies the tone the longer the string sustains.

By contrast, the Airbucker magnetic field preserves high end sustain; it's easier to capture and hold harmonic feedback at varied frequencies, and chords maintain better clarity.

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.

The Pogo is fitted with DiMarzio Breed pickups and is the result of Steve's desire to have a fat, classic humbucker sound to contrast with the hotter, screaming Evolution-equipped guitars.

Harmonics come easily and the 4-conductor wiring coil enables cool "notch tone" coil-splitting.

Recommended for the bridge position on solid body guitars.

The Breed was designed to warm up and smooth out the sound of 25-1/2 scale trem guitars.

It's 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.

The neck pickup is a bit louder and fatter-sounding than the PAF Pro pickups that Steve used on his earliest Jem guitars.

Harmonics are easy to get, and 4-conductor wiring coil enables cool "notch tone" coil-splitting.

The guitar part is recommended for the neck position on bolt-on trem guitars and bridge position on set-neck fixed-bridge instruments.

As a neck pickup, the Breed 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.

Most hot humbuckers concentrate the pickup's power in a narrow frequency range for maximum impact.

The Special spreads the sound over a broader range so bass and treble tones are boosted, and midrange is lowered.

The result is a sound that's hot, clean, and open at the same time.

390mV output.

Most hot humbuckers concentrate the pickup's power in a narrow frequency range for maximum impact.

The Dimarzio Special spreads the sound over a broader range so bass and treble tones are boosted and midrange is lowered.

The result is a sound that's hot, clean, and open at the same time.

Recommended for bridge position.

The pickup also has more volume, midrange, and bass than a vintage humbucker.

The patented dual-resonance design lets bridge humbuckers sound solid, or a neck pickup to sound so big.

Recommended for the bridge position, but can also be used at the neck with hotter humbuckers like Tone Zone, Super Distortion, and Super 3 (See recommended accessories box on this page).Norton was designed to extend the range and power of standard output humbuckers without going over the top.

More modern than a PAF sound, the guitar pickup yields more midrange crunch and high-frequency pick harmonics than vintage-style pickups.

Really good for opening up the sound of mahogany set-neck guitars.

The Evolution pickup's sound is tight, aggressive, and loud.

The DP159 Evolution incorporates DiMarzio's patented dual-resonance coil configuration that senses more harmonic overtones than ordinary humbuckers.

Perfect for solos that really cut through.

Low notes are very tight, and the highs have a lot of presence.

DiMarzio designed the DP159 pickup for Steve's Ibanez Jems, but it can add a lot of punch and definition to Les Pauls and similar set-neck guitars - even the lowest bass notes really jump out of the amp, and feedback occurs easily with a wide range of harmonic overtones.

It incorporates a patented dual-resonance coil configuration that senses more harmonic overtones than ordinary humbuckers.

Works in almost all solidbodies and most semi-hollowbodies as well.

Though specifically created for Steve Vai's Ibanez Jems, it can add a lot of punch to Les Pauls and similar set-neck guitars.

Makes the lowest notes jump out of the amp, and feedback occurs easily with a wide range of harmonic overtones.