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Thanks to Jeff Tucker of Earth Spectrum. Copyright © 2005 DiMarzio, Inc. All rights . 1388 Richmond Terrace . P.O. Box 100387 . Staten Island, NY 10310 . ����������������������������� 3 Steve Vai Super 2™ of the pickup’s power in a narrow to qualify as a high-output pickup, but DP104 & DP104F frequency bandwidth for maximum it has a wider dynamic range—hard If you love the impact. Using our patented dual- picking will produce a lot of power, sound of a Super resonance design, Steve’s Special™ and softer picking will be much cleaner Dual Sound® Distortion® in the takes the opposite path, spreading the and quieter. It’s got tremendous bass DP101 & DP101F bridge and you like sound over a broad range. Bass and and low-mid response to reinforce Take a Super Distortion®, include hot neck pickups treble frequencies are boosted while the bottom end and make the overall a push-pull pot for series-parallel too, try a Super 2™. the mids are pulled back, so the pickup’s sound bigger. The highest single notes or single-coil operation and you The Super 2™ takes the power doesn’t kick a high-gain amp have depth, and chords sound huge. have the Dual Sound®. The extra ® Neck & Bridgeclassic Super Distortion® sound into overdrive as easily. This makes Patented dual-resonance coils reproduce flexibility puts cleaner, crisp tone and slides the EQ up in favor of Steve’s Special™ a good choice for both more overtones than you’d expect from choices at your control. Lighten up Evolution the high-end, so its brighter top and fast soloing and clean chords, because such a fat-sounding pickup. It makes a on the lead tone in parallel operation, lighter bottom work to balance out the individual notes won’t smear together great match with an Air Norton™, PAF then roar back in with the standard darker, overtone-heavy information up with heavy overdrive, and clean sounds Joe™ or PAF Pro®, and split-coil mode series position. Use the single-coil mode by the fingerboard. The Super 2™ is just have an almost “hi-fi” quality. produces an excellent single-coil sound along with your neck or middle pickup the pickup to clean up the overdrive as well. for chopping rhythm tones. If you need sound of a mud-heavy 24¾’’ scale, two- brighter, more transparent sounds from humbucker guitar or to add snap to a The Breed™ your bridge or neck pickup without dark sounding 25½” bolt-on. It works D Sonic™ DP165 & DP165F NECK DP207 & DP207F sacrificing wide, singing crunch, the Dual great in the bridge or the neck. DP166 & DP166F BRIDGE Sound® nicely fills the bill. Our first heavy humbucker of the 21st If you’ve seen Steve Vai play in the last century, the D Sonic™ is a high-output few years, you may have seen him bridge humbucker designed for ® ® Evolution playing an Ibanez Jem guitar with the extended low end and DP158 & DP158F NECK the word “Pogo” taped on the heavy chords that dropped ® DP159 & DP159F BRIDGE face. Steve wanted one of his tuning delivers, with serious X2N ® instruments to have a fat, DP102 The Evolution neck and bridge hum- treble response for single- buckers are the result of two years of classic humbucker sound The X2N® is a “take-no-prisoners, note solos and standard research to come up with the right sound to contrast with the in-your-face” humbucker. Twin, wide- tuning. The D Sonic™ is for a very demanding player: Steve Vai hotter, screaming bar pole pieces give the X2N® a nasty, more than just a one-sound and his Ibanez® Jems. Both pickups Evolution®- dangerous look—and rightly so. Our pickup, too. In addition to are designed for maximum impact and equipped highest gain pickup was created to push the standard series humbucking power. The neck pickup is fat, punchy guitars. These tube amps into total overdrive. Put one sound, our patented design utilizes and loud. The bridge pickup is tight, are the pickups in the bridge position for a powerful jolt 4-conductor wiring to access two aggressive and louder. Both pickups we developed to the voltage the amp sees from your ® different single-coil sounds plus parallel have our patented dual-resonance for him. The neck guitar. The result is a sound that can only humbucking mode, for three additional configuration to reproduce more pickup is a bit X2N be described as blistering. The magnetic sounds that are distinctive and versatile. harmonic overtones than conventional louder and fatter- field of the X2N® is very powerful and humbuckers. Evolution® pickups are sounding than the PAF Pro® focused. It captures the character of not polite-sounding, and they’re not for pickups that Steve used on his earliest whichever guitar it’s in. If your guitar is Evo 2™ the inexperienced, but—if you’ve got Jems. The bridge pickup is not as hot ® The balance of tones is classic—thick, warm sounding, the X2N® will act like a DP215 & DP215F Super Distortion the chops and a hot amp—your sound as the Evolution®, but it’s got a warm DP100 & DP100F boosted mids, big lows and fat highs. sledgehammer. A bright-sounding guitar The original Evolution® bridge model will burn. The Evolution® pickups were and punchy mid-range coupled with a This pickup started a sound revolution. This is the sound you’ve heard for over will go into total scream mode. did exactly what Steve Vai wanted it originally designed with live gigs in fat low end that rolls off before it can Replacement pickups simply didn’t three decades on platinum records, from And the X2N® still has to do: kick butt and produce serious mind, but they have so much presence get muddy. Harmonics are easy to get, exist before the invention of the Super players as varied as Ace Frehley, Al Di versatility: single-coil and scream. Then he wanted something a and definition that they’re great and the 4-conductor wiring enables cool Distortion® in the early Seventies. The Meola and Paul Gilbert. It’s also versatile: series-parallel modes are little more complex—the same basic tone recording pickups, too; they slice right “notch tone” coil-splitting. Super Distortion® (and its original 3- 4-conductor wiring allows instant particularly effective, with increased headroom and dynamics, through even the densest mix. conductor version, the Dual Sound®) was access to Strat®-like split and because the X2N® so that the sound kills on 10 and cleans the first pickup specifically designed to series-parallel modes. Discover pickup’s power up when the volume is rolled down. kick a tube amp into total overdrive, and what thousands of great gives these sounds The Tone Zone® With a little less power than the original is still the standard by which all other players know: the Super more authority Steve’s Special™ DP155 & DP155F Evolution®, Evo 2™ balances perfectly high-output pickups are measured. The Distortion® is the than is possible with DP161 & DP161F Have you ever heard a bridge pickup with the Evolution® neck model and Super Distortion® has a perfect blend of best all ’round weaker humbuckers. Steve’s Special™ is a non-traditional that made a guitar sound like a giant performs equally well with high gain and power and tone: both single-notes and high-power ® approach to high-output bridge mosquito attack? If you’ve run into vintage amps. chords jump out of the amp and fill the pickup ever humbucking pickup design. Hot this problem, The Tone Zone® is the room (or the track) with a wall of sound. made. humbuckers usually concentrate most solution. The Tone Zone® is hot enough Super Distortion ������������������������������������������������������������ Strat® is a registered trademark of Fender Musical Corp., with which DiMarzio, Inc. is not affiliated. ��������������������������������� 5 Paul Gilbert EJ Custom™ DP211 & DP211F NECK DP212 & DP212F BRIDGE Bluesbucker® Although Eric Johnson is best known DP163 & DP163F as a Strat® player, he has always played And now for something completely humbucker-equipped guitars as well. After different: the Bluesbucker® looks like getting a new Les Paul® 1959 re-issue, Eric a standard humbucker, but sounds asked us if it could be made to sound like like a P90 and cancels 60-cycle hum as an old Gretsch® Country Gentleman guitar. effectively as the average humbucker. We said, “No problem!” The pickups This means any guitar with standard size we designed are exact replacements for humbuckers can now have the sound of PAF Classic™ Neck & Bridge standard, full-size humbuckers. They’re PAF® P90s without altering the guitar in any bright and have great presence without DP103 & DP103F way and without noise.