Modern Metal Set includes D Activator Neck/D Activator Bridge F-spaced humbuckers, long shaft pots,
and a complete complete wiring harness with solderless installation.
D Activator humbuckers
In 2006, DiMarzio took a close look at the most they could capture all of the good qualities and eliminate the disadvantages:
cold sound, limited dynamics, running out of headroom when played hard, and the need for batteries. The end results are the
D Activator™ Neck and Bridge. They use coils tuned to specific frequencies. The purpose is to shift the resonant points
of the pickups to the fundamentals and harmonics that you want to accentuate from the guitar, and they respond instantly to
hard or light pick attack. The sound is powerful, clean, and open, with excellent harmonic overtones and very tight lows.
The best way to describe the D Activator™ Neck pickup is that it is big, bright, and open sounding with surprising string
- to - string balance. The D Activator™ Bridge has an enriched harmonic quality and the notes want to sing.
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Activator Neck DP219
There's a big difference between a pickup that sounds bright and one that sounds thin. A thin-sounding pickup will be brittle
on the highest frets and empty-sounding in the mids and lows. The D Activator™ neck model doesn't do this - both the
wound and plain strings remain tight and bright up the neck, and very well balanced. This allows the D Activator Neck model
to function well in both longer scale bolt-ons and shorter scale, set-neck guitars. It also makes for a good bridge pickup
if you want a sound with a lot of snap and power.
D Activator Bridge DP220
The D Activator™ Bridge has an enriched harmonic quality and the notes want to sing. Both the D Activator™ Neck
and Bridge pickups were designed to eliminate the sterile edginess commonly associated with active pickups. The D Activator™
Bridge pickup is about 25% louder than the D Activator™ Neck. Since both pickups were developed as a set from the ground
up, the volume levels on the pickups were adjusted so they are balanced. That way when you switch from the neck to the bridge,
you don't hear a drop in volume - also a frequent problem with active pickups. And they don't use batteries.
An interesting
fact about the most popular active bridge pickups is that they aren't incredibly loud. Instead, they have a strong, focused
attack that hits the amp very hard and makes them "feel" more powerful than they actually spec out to be. This is an important
characteristic that needed capturing with the D Activator™ bridge pickup. The limiting effect that can occur with active
pickups when they are played hard is also avoided. The D Activator pickup is passive with a lot of headroom, and it responds
quickly and accurately to changes in pick attack. A hard pick attack doesn't cause the signal to flatten out, and picking
more softly or rolling the volume control down lets the sound clean up naturally.
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DiMarzio Modern Metal Humbucker Pre-Wired Pickup Set - Long Shaft Pots Specifications:
- D Activator Neck DP219
- Wiring: 4-conductor
- Magnet: Ceramic
- Output: 385mV
- DC resistance: 7.22k ohms
D Activator Bridge DP220
- Wiring: 4-conductor
- Magnet: Ceramic
- Output: 470mV
- DC resistance: 11.41k ohms