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If you've seen Steve Vai play in the last few years, you may have 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 coil enables cool "notch tone" coil-splitting.

Recommended For: Neck position on bolt-on trem guitars, bridge position on set-neck fixed-bridge instruments.

Tech Talk: The Breed™ is a bit louder and fatter-sounding than the PAF Pro®s 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.

Specifications:

Wiring 4 conductor
Magnet Alnico 5
Output 325mV
DC Resistance 10.14K
Year of introduction 1997
Patent # n/a

Instructions

• 4Conductor.pdf

Wiring Diagrams

• Humbucker-Single-Humbucker

• Humbucker-Single (Humcancelling)-Humbucker

• Two Humbuckers, 5-way Rotary Pickup Selector

• Two Humbuckers with 3-way Center Coil-split

• Two Humbuckers with Multipole 5-way Switch