De-air an Air Zone?

I think it's due to it being in a 22 fret guitar that the breed neck overpowers the bridge. I have it set quite low as well. I purchased a used Air Zone for very cheap, and now I'm contemplating wether I should de-air it, or keep the air gaps, but use an alnico 8 mag.
 
I've read that the breed neck does work very well in the bridge for a slightly hot, fat paf type tones. I think that's what I like about dimarzios. They have a wide range of humbuckers, everything from subtle to extreme, and they encourage experimenting with different positions, and orientations.
 
hwiho2002 said:
I think it's due to it being in a 22 fret guitar that the breed neck overpowers the bridge. I have it set quite low as well. I purchased a used Air Zone for very cheap, and now I'm contemplating wether I should de-air it, or keep the air gaps, but use an alnico 8 mag.
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That makes sense, the Breeds were designed for Vai, so for 24 fret guitars. Moving the neck pup toward the middle would probably pick up a little more vibration from the strings.
 
Honestly I have no problem with the breed bridge. I think It sounds great, moderately hot and fat with no extreme eq curves. Great all rounder. I think I may experiment with the neck pickup, and keep the breed in the bridge. Thinking about a paf 36th bridge or paf master bridge for the neck.
 
I de-aired my Air Classic and it was a major improvement. I just used slugs and spacer from another humbucker I wasn't using. I highly recommend the mod. Though, I use an Air Zone for my strat specifically for the air qualities.
 
I decided to keep the breed bridge, but switch out the breed neck for a paf 36th bridge model. Less output, and less bass and mid compared to the breed neck, so I think it'll work well.
 
I finally understand the 'air' in Air Zone, something I've wondered about, on and off for ages, so major thanks for the education.

DiMarzio are not a company I'm very familiar with.
Having said that I'm currently the owner of two DImarzio humbuckers. One is the 'Virtual PAF', (dp197) the other is the 'Virtual Hot PAF'.

They served as the base for the 36th anniversary PAFs. After which they were discontinued despite their popularity.

I've heard that the word 'virtual' indicates that they are 'air' coils.. Is this true ?

Has anyone compared, or just really familiar with the various DImarzio PAF's with our favourite Duncan PAF types? That's a discussion I'd love to get into.. Preferably in real life, with cold beers and a barbecue.. Here will have to do for now. .. Jump in..
 
AcVox said:
I finally understand the 'air' in Air Zone, something I've wondered about, on and off for ages, so major thanks for the education.

DiMarzio are not a company I'm very familiar with.
Having said that I'm currently the owner of two DImarzio humbuckers. One is the 'Virtual PAF', (dp197) the other is the 'Virtual Hot PAF'.

They served as the base for the 36th anniversary PAFs. After which they were discontinued despite their popularity.

I've heard that the word 'virtual' indicates that they are 'air' coils.. Is this true ?

Has anyone compared, or just really familiar with the various DImarzio PAF's with our favourite Duncan PAF types? That's a discussion I'd love to get into.. Preferably in real life, with cold beers and a barbecue.. Here will have to do for now. .. Jump in..
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The "virtual tech" is where each bobbin has 6 extra poles in between the usual polepieces. They're short and don't exit through the top of the bobbins, but they're visible at the bottom if you remove the baseplate. It has something to do with changing the inductance of the pickup, or something like that.

Cool that you have the virtualpafs. I've never owned them, but they seem to have a mythical status on various forums.
 
Wow, thanks for your response. I'm not sure I understand your explanation of 'virtual' and I'm hoping you won't hold it against me, but I promise to
look into what you've said and educate myself.
I'm on a learning curve here, but I will catch up. Love all things pickups and tone..
 
AcVox said:
Wow, thanks for your response. I'm not sure I understand your explanation of 'virtual' and I'm hoping you won't hold it against me, but I promise to
look into what you've said and educate myself.
I'm on a learning curve here, but I will catch up. Love all things pickups and tone..
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https://imgur.com/HHeLisl
See the link above. You can see extra slugs in between the polepieces. That's the "virtual vintage" technology.

I was wrong about the number of slugs, looks like it's actually 3 per bobbin, not 6.
 
The Imgur link doesn't appear to be working. Here's a link to a pic on the Web showing the extra VV slugs inside an AT-1.

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