- DP162 DLX Plus Hum-Cancelling Soapbar Neck Pickup
- 12 Adjustable Pole Pieces
- Ceramic Magnets
- Five Year Warranty
- Made in USA
The DiMarzio DP162 DLX Plus™ is a hum-cancelling P90 soapbar pickup, often combined with the DP169 Virtual P90 or the DP154 DLX Plus Bridge model.
When DiMarzio® first decided to introduce a humbucking replacement for the "soapbar" and mini-humbucker, they found that many players wanted a pickup with more power and definition. They wanted to preserve some of the clean and open character of the original soapbar, so they reduced the mids on the DLX Plus a little while making the lows tight and punchy and the highs strong and defined.
The result is that the DLX Plus has power, but it's not muddy-sounding. The Neck model has almost as much power as the DP154 Bridge model, with a leaner bass response so low notes sound more defined. Both come with 4-conductor cable for coil-splitting and parallel options.
DiMarzio designated the DP162 a neck model because the low end is a little tighter and brighter than the DP154, so the two pickups function together as a gently calibrated set. However, it's also a pretty nasty bridge pickup — this is DiMarzio's production version of the mysterious Yamaha Q100, which is in both positions on the Yamaha AES 1500.
Cover dimensions: 3.38" x 1.38" x 0.75" (86 x 35 x 19 mm). Not available in a "dog-ear" version.
