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Active humbuckers have a distinctive sound: powerful, clean, open-sounding, with excellent harmonic overtones and very tight lows. This also fits the description of a great 7-string pickup, if the problems associated with active pickups sterile sound and limited headroom could be eliminated. The D Activator 7(tm) bridge model does just that. It has the same loud yet clean sound as the best active humbuckers, and killer harmonics. The low B string is all about attack, not mud. It responds instantly to hard or light picking. The neck model has both power and clarity. The low B string stays solid and doesn't sound like mud with extreme overdrive, and the high strings sing all the way up the neck. In a word, it rocks. No batteries required. Recommended For: Bridge, Neck Tech Talk: Like the 6-string version, the bridge D Activator 7 has a very focused attack that hits the amp hard and makes it 'feel' more powerful than it actually specs out to be. DiMarzio also wanted to avoid the limiting
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