Description
The Air Norton (DP193) began life as an experiment: what would the Norton sound like with DiMarzio’s Airbucker magnetic structure under the hood? The answer turned out to be one of the more versatile humbuckers in the catalog. In the neck slot, it’s deep and warm without collapsing into mush, hot without turning to fuzz, and it throws off harmonic content that’s rare for a neck pickup. The patented Air Norton magnet structure cuts down on string pull, which frees up sustain and gives you noticeably more control over pick dynamics and attack.
Drop it in the bridge instead and the character shifts to a medium-output voice with solid low end and harmonics that bite rather than smear. Pair an Air Norton in the bridge with an Air Classic in the neck for a distinctive medium-output blues-rock combo, or run it opposite an Air Zone, The Tone Zone, or Steve’s Special for a well-balanced power-and-tone pairing. It also plays nicely with single-coils like The Cruiser, The Chopper, and Blue Velvet.
Pot choice matters here: 500K pots bring out maximum treble and harmonic sparkle in the neck position, while 250K controls (or a 500K volume with a 250K tone) will fatten up the highs when it’s in the bridge.
Best suited to solid body and semi-hollow guitars.
- Wiring: 4 conductor
- Magnet: Alnico 5
- Output: 270 mV
- DC Resistance: 12.58 kOhm
- Introduced: 1995
- Patents: 4,501,185 and 5,399,802
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