is pushed hard. Combine the Model P with a DiMarzio Model J at the bridge for a killer range that includes warm bottom, tight midrange, and bright, clear attack.  (less)

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.  (less)

thin. The lows and mids are more open than DiMarzio's D Sonic 7, which is crucial for playing chords with body and presence through a gained-out amp. The way the pickup attacks a note is both sharper and stronger, and this allows the Crunch Lab 7 to be installed with the solid bar facing towards the neck. Recommended for the bridge position.  (less)

Black Clouds & Silver Linings and swears that this is the best live and studio sound he has ever heard. ""Crunch"" is what it's all about, with a big, tight sound that's neither muddy nor thin. Recommended for the bridge position."  (less)

Black Clouds & Silver Linings and swears that this is the best live and studio sound he has ever heard. ""Crunch"" is what it's all about, with a big, tight sound that's neither muddy nor thin. Recommended for the bridge position."  (less)

a great match for very hot amps because it takes 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 hollowbody archtop sound from a solid body. Recommended primarily for the bridge position.  (less)

a great match for very hot amps because it takes 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 hollowbody archtop sound from a solid body. Recommended primarily for the bridge position.  (less)

a great match for very hot amps because it takes 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 hollowbody archtop sound from a solid body. Recommended primarily for the bridge position.  (less)

a great match for very hot amps because it takes 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 hollowbody archtop sound from a solid body. Recommended primarily for the bridge position.  (less)

a great match for very hot amps because it takes 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 hollowbody archtop sound from a solid body. Recommended primarily for the bridge position.  (less)

played hard. And of course, they need batteries. In 2006 DiMarzio took a close look at the most popular active neck and bridge humbuckers to see if they could capture all of the good qualities and eliminate the disadvantages. The D Activator neck and bridge models are the result. They have the same loud yet clean sound, as players of active humbuckers are familiar with, and killer harmonics. They also respond instantly to hard or light pick attack. In a word, they rock. And they don't need batteries.Recommended For: Neck. Can also be used in bridge positionTech Talk: There's a big difference between a pickup that sounds bright and one that sounds thin. A thin-sounding pickup will be brittle on the highest frets and empty sounding in the m  (less)