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Re: Dimarzio VPAF Hot Early Reviews! Nice Pickup!
That's pretty much what I have found with mine. I been so impressed with this pickup and the VVPaf in the neck of my Wolfgang special that I'm saving to buy the same set up for my Wolfgang Standard. You really can hear the guitar breathe. The openness of the pickup is like nothing I've ever heard before and it reminds me of a single coil to some extent but under gain it retains articulation. I've been preaching these to everyone I see. The VVPaf and VHPaf are by far the best sounding Dimarzios I've ever heard and are my favorite PAF combo to date. I knew you were going to like it. Congrats! :smokin:
STRATDELUXER97 said:Spent quite a bit of time with this pickup after installing it...Didn't measure the dc resistance though? I Left the cover off of this pickup and it's not what I normally do,but the creme bobbins were too pretty to cover up...
Nice round tone with a mixture of lots of lows and a vintage style midrange..The highs cut nice but they aren't spikey at all...A touch of rolloff on the tone control and the pickup is slightly darker...The name of the pickup is perfect also...Vintage PAF type of tone,but hotter and ballsier with alot of output.I Know this review sounds like I'm explaining a 59B pickup,but it's alot ballsier and it has this cool "open" and 3D depth about it..
The overall feel is tight,very clear and articulate on all strings...The pickup is pretty powerful in output and I had to raise my 59N closer to the strings to get a perfect match in output....
Nice fat,warm clean tones,and again almost single coil sounding in it's crystal clear clarity but fatter,and rounder..
With gain....Excellent eq overall,cuts but without ripping your face off and alot of nice warm lows mixed with the highs....This pickup reminds me of a slightly more powerful PGB pickup but it has more lows..
There's this kind of "air" or "breathy" vibe that everyone talks about with these pickups....It's as if the pickup has some extra added space? Hard to explain but 3D does explain what I hear...It's not something I've ever heard with any of my Duncan stuff.. Maybe this is something you Antiquity humbucker users talk about,though this pickup is potted(Potted very well)No microphonics at all...I prefer potted anyway!
Play light and the pickup is really clear,crisp in the highs,nice rich tight warm lows....Dig in and it does the PGB thing and has this really cool slight "sizzle"you hear and it's cool for getting the pick harmonic chirp with an Articulate grinding tone....
The only thing I Miss with this pickup compared to the Fred it replaced,is harmonics...The Fred has about the same output,but it's got more mids and it has nowhere near the lows or the roundness this pickup has!
Nice pickup! Dimarzio is really coming out with some cool stuff and this pickup is worthy of a try for a nice fat,round tone with vintage PAF type mids....Clean,clear,tight,punchy tone and lots of output.....I'll try it tonight with my band?
Probably one of the most articulate pickups I've ever heard in a bridge humbucker,but yet it's nice and fat but still has great chime on top....The mids sit where I Like them,not too scooped and not too peaky...... Kind of a 59 meets a PG but fatter and with more output,but probably has more clarity in the notes...This pickup is very very clear(You hear all of your notes and great note seperation and this is something I always look for when I'm playing.
That's pretty much what I have found with mine. I been so impressed with this pickup and the VVPaf in the neck of my Wolfgang special that I'm saving to buy the same set up for my Wolfgang Standard. You really can hear the guitar breathe. The openness of the pickup is like nothing I've ever heard before and it reminds me of a single coil to some extent but under gain it retains articulation. I've been preaching these to everyone I see. The VVPaf and VHPaf are by far the best sounding Dimarzios I've ever heard and are my favorite PAF combo to date. I knew you were going to like it. Congrats! :smokin:
