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acetrouble:
Please note: The statements made refer to the Breed bridge model. I have no experience with the neck model.
Of course, feel free to post your own Breed-related thoughts, also about the Breed neck.

According to DiMarzio.com the Breed was designed for Steve Vai to contrast the hotter Evolution pickups in his other Ibanez JEM guitars.
While the Evo and Evo 2 pickups have screaming highs that cut through the mix and are considered ear-piercing by some (especially as for the original Evolution), the Breed is basically a hot-rodded PAF-type humbucker that gives you a fat punchy tone. Which, in my opinion, makes it a great choice if you're the only guitarist in the band.
It is centered on the mids, prominently low mids, rather than treble, but it still sounds brighter than let's say a Super Distortion.
When I first installed this in my mahogany Ibanez MFM2 I was astonished by how clear and articulate it remains even under high-gain settings.

The Breed is also quite sensitive to your pick attack and thus can go from mellow and creamy to full-throttle nastiness within a blink of an eye. It covers about any style, I can go from Police to Metallica with this pickup! For metal enthusiasts there's really no need to worry about the output being rated at 356 mV (well, ask our member City... and he'll assure you that measured output means virtually nothing in regard of aggressiveness / perceived output). It has plenty of chunk and thrown in some gain, it drives like one hell of a mofo.
While some might disagree, I find that the Breed has this very lovely singing quality for leads reminiscent of the Duncan JB, minus the ice-pick, though.

Like I said I got the Breed in my Ibanez MFM2 (Friedman signature), which is mahogany with a quilted maple top. And despite some initial doubts that the Breed's emphasized midrange would be a little overpowering in mahogany, it sounds absolutely stunning! Pure ear candy.
It is my favorite bridge humbucker so far, although my experience is limited to the following: Duncan JB, Duncan Invader, Duncan/Ibanez Marty Friedman signature pickup, DiMarzio X2N, Gibson Dirty Fingers, EMG 81 & 60, EMG-HZ.

For a list of players check DiMarzio.com

Here are a couple of clips / videos I've put together.

Full song I recorded (no vocals yet) with the Breed used for every guitar track:
http://www.palmstrokemusic.com/jetgrindradio.mp3

You might also wanna head over to http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Electric+Guitar+Pickup/product/DiMarzio/Breed/10/1 to read some reviews.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiCW006_b1M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4oFisXHOyo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne2dQjPgWBU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZprJk_qlu5s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsZOarBLOCk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vpzLctUFqc

FeinMusic:
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Me playing a Breed Neck in bridge position in my Les Paul Studio Lite with an HFH in the neck going through the relative motions.

I haven't done all of my fine tuning to it yet but so far I feel like this is the first pickup I've played where I said to myself the second I heard it clean "This sounds like Max" and it's a beautiful thing to find pickups that seem to understand your personality and playing vocabulary in a way that doesn't mistranslate it... I can't put it into words but for the most part it seems to work with my guitar and my mentality instead of just doing its own thing.  As of right now I'm trying to get a little more highs out of it and a bit more harmonic yield but that might just be me not being used to it or me using a fuzz pedal as my primary distortion at band practice last night but I'm sure adjustment to my rig and to the pup itself will give me what i want

In the vid I'm playing straight through a Peavey C50 4X10 going from the clean channel with if memory serves T:7 M:5 B:8 and little Presence maybe it's at about 2.  The Light gain had the Post Amp at about 8 with the Pre Amp at about 4 and the Heavy Gain had the Pre Amp boosted to 7 or 8.   

damonstewart70:
man i just watched the video of the breed bridge with the ibanez rg350 and wow that shit sounds awesome.butsomebody tell me would a super distortion sing like that.the breed bridge is awesome :D

bzzdog:
rockin track ace. good demo fein.

acetrouble:

--- Quote from: bzzdog on July 21, 2010, 01:13:37 AM ---rockin track ace. good demo fein.

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Thank you!

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