DiMarzio DP165C The Breed® Neck - Cream

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.

Output: 325

Bass: 7.5 Mid: 7.5 Treble: 6.5

Recommended For: Neck position in bolt-on trem guitars, bridge position in set-neck fixed-bridge instruments; The Breed® is a bit louder and fatter-sounding than the PAF Pro® pickups 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.

Wiring: 4 Conductor
Magnet: Alnico 5
Resistance: 10.39 Kohm

Below are the tone, volume and cap values that Dimarzio® recommend with this Pickup: