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The best way to describe the DiMarzio Air Zone™ is to say it’s a vintage version of The Tone Zone®. It's got the same low string-pull as other DiMarzio Airbuckers™ for singing sustain, plus it has the big bass response and cool harmonics of The DiMarzio Tone Zone®, with extra sensitivity and control. It's a great match for very hot amps, allowing the player to take full advantage of massive preamp gain without turning the sound to mud or fuzzy noise. It’s also a great neck pickup for jazz players who need to get the hollow-body archtop sound from a solid body, and it offers exceptionally good split and series-parallel capability.

Recommended For: Bridge position primarily (see Tech Talk for neck position application) in solid body and semihollow body guitars.

Tech Talk: Ultra-fat PAF® sound with more output. The dynamic range from soft to hard picking is very wide, and the combination of dual-resonance coils with the Airbucker magnetic field allows sustained notes to hang on to harmonic overtones longer, instead of becoming muddy as they fade. Will also work as a very warm, full neck pickup for jazz sound, and combine with DiMarzio Tone Zone®, DiMarzio Super Distortion® and Super 3™ in bridge position.

Specifications:

Wiring 4 conductor
Magnet Alnico 5
Output 323mV
DC Resistance 17.49K
Year of introduction 1995
Patent # 4501185 & 5399802

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

Sound Samples for this pickup are available on the DiMarzio web site:

http://www.dimarzio.com/site/#/pickups/

Click on "Humbuckers." Then Click on "Medium Power." Then Click on "Air Zone." Then Click on the "Sound" button under "Details."