DiMarzio DP103BK PAF® 36th Anniversary Neck - Black
Guitar Pickup
Here are the characteristics that make a great vintage humbucker: a soft magnetic field, sweet tone, perfect balance between warmth and clarity, the ability to go from clean to distorted by pick attack alone.
For the PAF® 36th Anniversary Neck Dimarzio® wanted to continue in the path of pioneers such as Seth Lover (designer of the original Patent Applied For humbucker) and create pickups that combine all of the characteristics of great vintage humbuckers.
These pickups are not merely clones. Dimarzio® re-engineered the PAF® using their patented technology and Larry DiMarzio’s own 1959 cherry sunburst Gibson® Les Paul® as the reference.
Larry’s Gibson® Les Paul® has a uniquely amazing sound and it’s not only due to the pickups — it’s the total fusion of many elements of the guitar itself. Although the pickups have a weak magnetic field, the sound is well defined: almost like a single-coil.
Dimarzio® duplicated the weaker magnetic field in order to allow the strings to vibrate longer, as well as focus and articulate the attack and output. Using computer-controlled winders to consistently layer the 42-gauge custom-coated wire, achieving the exact frequency response desired. Then it’s dipped in Dimarzio® own custom formula to eliminate squeal and microphonics.
The PAF® 36th Anniversary Neck is smooth but not muddy. It performs equally well in the neck or bridge, just as the best humbuckers from the 50s did.
Output: 250
Bass: 5.5 Mid: 6.0 Treble: 5.5
Warm highs and bright lows. A pickup intended for both the neck and bridge positions. Allowing the bass strings in the neck position to avoid muddiness, and the treble strings in the bridge position to be warm and not brittle.
Below are the tone, volume and cap values that Dimarzio® recommend with this Pickup:
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