I'm a huge Pantera fan. I have seen them live 1994 and was flashed since. After years of playing guitar myself to the Pantera-classics I felt the need to get me a pair of the original Dimebag-pickup. Around 2004/2005 they weren't easy to find as some guy used the name for his own pickup company + Seymour Duncan released their Dimebucker. So I had to order the Bill Lawrence directly from the man himself. I have to admit: I had no idea how the sounded like and I couldn't even check them out as they didn't fit in any of my guitars. This pickup is huge and needs a deep guitar body to fit in. Finally after 10 years of resting in my cupboard of unused equipment it found its way to my RGIB (where it's screwed directly to the wood). The sound is really boomy with sharp high mids that add this pickup an interesting character. Really high output but less than the X2N for example. To my taste it could have tighter low-end. This pickup is not limited to brutal high gain distortion, it sound good in a crunch set if you use a treblebooster/tubescreamer.