Description
Some pickups chase the PAF sound. This one was built by measuring it directly off a real 1959 Les Paul that Larry DiMarzio has owned for decades. Rather than guessing at old specs, DiMarzio pulled the actual “family recipe” from that guitar: a 2-½” degaussed Alnico 5 magnet, 42 AWG enamel wire, stagger-wound and left un-dipped, all wound to the tolerances of the best original PAFs from that era.
The construction details matter here too. You get genuine Double Cream butyrate bobbins sitting on a long-leg nickel/silver base plate, just like the units DiMarzio used as reference — and everything is made in the U.S.A.
Tonally, this is the neck pickup players describe as alive under the fingers. Harmonics jump out with very little effort, dynamics stay wide open, and there’s a bright attack up top that settles into a smooth midrange and a rich, full low end. Drive it and you get that creamy, singing overdrive that made these pickups famous in the first place — pair it with the PAF 59 Bridge model for the full classic arena-rock voice.
Built primarily for the neck position, though it works fine in the bridge if that’s the tone you’re after.
- Wiring: 1-conductor
- Magnet: Alnico 5
- Output: 192mV
- Tone stats: Treble 6.0 / Mid 5.5 / Bass 4.5
- DC resistance: 7.56K ohms
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