The Breed™ Neck
DP165
If you’re a fan of Steve Vai, you’ve probably seen him playing an Ibanez® Jem guitar with the word “Pogo” taped on the face. Steve wanted one of his instruments to have a fat, classic humbucker sound to contrast with the hotter, screaming Evolution®-equipped guitars. These are the pickups we developed for him. The neck pickup is a bit louder and fatter-sounding than the PAF Pro® pickups that Steve used on his earliest Jems. The bridge pickup is not as hot as the Evolution®, but it’s got a warm and punchy mid-range coupled with a fat low end that rolls off before it can get muddy. Harmonics are easy to get, and the 4-conductor wiring enables cool “notch tone” coil-splitting.
Recommended For
Neck position in bolt-on trem guitars, bridge position in set-neck fixed-bridge instruments.Tech Talk
The Breed™ is a bit louder and fatter-sounding than the PAF Pro® pickups that Steve used on his earliest Jems. As a neck pickup, it has more than enough power to balance with high-output bridge pickups: it will work with The Tone Zone®, Super Distortion®, and Evolution® as well as The Breed™ Bridge Model. In the bridge position, it has a very warm, hot PAF® tone — really smooth, with nice harmonics.Specs
Wiring: 4 ConductorMagnet: Alnico 5
Output mV: 325
DC Resistance: 10.39 Kohm
Year of Introduction: 1997
Patent: n/a
Tone Guide
Treble:
6.5
Mid:
7.5
Bass:
7.5
Color Options
Players & Soundbytes
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Steve Vai -
Dimitar Nalbantov -
Howard Hart -
Milan Polak -
Addy Cradle -
Alessandro Benvenuti -
Art Rodriguez -
Devin Bronson -
James McIlroy -
Magnus Olsson -
Mark Fitzpatrick -
Michael Bailey -
Mr. Scott DiGioia -
Rolf Munkes -
Scott Hughes
Dimitar Nalbantov
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Song: Be On The Wing
Album:
Band: Dimi Nalbantov
Guitar Used: Ibanez RG Custom
Pickup Used: The Breed™ Neck - Neck
Album:
Band: Dimi Nalbantov
Guitar Used: Ibanez RG Custom
Pickup Used: The Breed™ Neck - Neck
- Be On The Wing
Howard Hart
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Song: Slow Race To Oblivion
Album: Thirst
Band: Howard Hart
Guitar Used: Peavey EVH Wolfgang and Performance
Pickup Used: The Breed™ Neck - Neck
Pickup Used: FRED® -
Album: Thirst
Band: Howard Hart
Guitar Used: Peavey EVH Wolfgang and Performance
Pickup Used: The Breed™ Neck - Neck
Pickup Used: FRED® -
- Slow Race To Oblivion
Milan Polak
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Song: Dreamscapes
Album: Dreamscapes
Band:
Guitar Used: EB MM Silhouette
Pickup Used: The Breed™ Neck - Neck
Pickup Used: The Breed™ Bridge - Bridge
Album: Dreamscapes
Band:
Guitar Used: EB MM Silhouette
Pickup Used: The Breed™ Neck - Neck
Pickup Used: The Breed™ Bridge - Bridge
