The Breed Neck pickup is a bit louder and fatter-sounding than the PAF Pro pickups that Steve Vai used on his earliest Ibanez Jem Guitars. The bridge pickup is not as hot as the Evolution, but it's got a warm and punchy mid-range coupled with a fat low end that rolls off before it can get muddy. Harmonics are easy to get, and the 4-conductor wiring coil enables cool "notch tone" coil-splitting.