If you've seen Steve Vai play in the last few years, you may have seen him playing an Ibanez Jem guitar with word "pogo" taped on the face. Steve wanted one of his instruments to have a fat, classic humbucker sound to contrast with the hotter, screaming Evolution equipped guitars. These are the pickups we developed for him. The neck pickup is a bit louder and fatter sounding than the PAF pickups that Steve used on this earliest Jems. 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 enables cool "notch tone" coil-splitting.