Dimarzio DP103 PAF 36th Anniversary

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.

The PAF® 36th Anniversary in Neck position is smooth but not muddy.

It performs equally well in the neck or bridge, just as the best humbuckers from the 50s did.

There is no reference standard for the sound of a humbucker from the 1950s. All of them had variations in output and tone, and these differences could be quite large.

Recently, DiMarzio have focused their research on making pickups with warm highs and bright lows.

This combination is only found in their favorite vintage humbuckers, and it’s really good for a pickup intended for both the neck and bridge positions.

It allows the bass strings in the neck position to avoid muddiness, and the treble strings in the bridge position to be warm and not brittle.