Dimarzio Air Zone is Really, Really Good

[jarodathomas]

I joined this forum just to ask one specific question. Anybody know where I can order some of the plastic spacers? I don't want to order another airbucker pickup just to take the spacers out of it.

 

[Masta' C]

I joined this forum just to ask one specific question. Anybody know where I can order some of the plastic spacers? I don't want to order another airbucker pickup just to take the spacers out of it.

There's no place to order them, but the ones I took out of a newer AT-1 pickup look like cut pieces of 1/4" (6mm) plastic tubing

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Yeah, AFAIK, they just use surgical tubing instead of an actual spacer.

This is from an official DiMarzio video.

 

[jarodathomas]

I remember taking apart an air zone a long time ago and the four little rings felt more solid to me. It felt more like plastic, not like tubing. But that is just what I remember from like 10 years ago. I want to air a least the screw coil of a Tone Zone because I'm putting it in a different guitar than I bought it for and I want to add more dynamics and take away some of the woofiness.

 

[Masta' C]

It's not surgical/rubber tubing, it's white plastic tubing.

 

[Beatnikolas86]

Finally got an air zone in my guitar and it’s very nice. It has the warmth and depth I was looking for and expected. I followed the recommendation from the Dimarzio web site about using the air zone as a neck pickup to jazz up a more solid-body guitar. Since mine is semi-hollow it seems to be a good fit. It actually does have more treble than I thought it would. Now I’m curious to try an air Norton in the neck and zone in the bridge. My guitar was very bright and also thin sounding on the high strings. I really felt like I needed a lot more bass response per string and something to darken things up. So far the air zone fits the bill.

 

[jeremy]

glad youre happy with the result thus far!

 

[marcello252]

am I only me or anybody else feels the Air pickups have a strange attack to the pick, like there was a little delay? they feel strange under my fingers

 

[Chistopher]

Sometimes I play pickups with less bass response that feel less "immediate", maybe that's what you mean?

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I've had the Air Norton and the AT-1, but I didn't experience that. The AT-1 wasn't far off from the feel of a good old JB, and the Air Norton is very smooth, but not in an odd kinda way.

Neither were particularly attacky like a Black Winter is, for example. But they're not weird-feeling to me.