PAF 36th Anniversary Bridge Humbucker Pickup - Black Review

A very nice, slightly hotter PAF-type bridge pickup

This is my first Dimarzio humbucker and I'm quite pleased with the sound. A nicely balanced, slightly hotter PAF-like pickup at a reasonable price. I have an Eastman T386 semi-hollow that's very bright compared to the ES335-type sound I was after (clean and overdriven). The stock pickups aren't bad but aren't great. I've tried a variety of replacements, from SD, Sheptone, and Manlius.… read more For the neck I've settled on a Pearly Gates neck, full, rich, and clear sounding in this guitar, but set quite low because it's so loud. Finding a versatile bridge PU has been more difficult - slightly hotter to match the volume of the PGn and warm up the bridge sound a bit, but still retaining a clear and open PAF-like sound. This 36th Anniversary bridge does all that very nicely. Initially I had it too close to the strings and the sound bordered on steely and harsh. But backing it down the sound opened up to a very nice sweet spot, great clean and matching volume with the PGn. The 36th also drives overdrive and distortion better than more-traditional PAF-types I've tried.

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