DiMarzio has preserved the ORIGINAL SINGLE COIL LOOK. These are the pickups everyone whol loves the strat(tm) sound has been waiting for. Our reaction - I have them in my guitar! They just kill. You can stand anywhere on the stage, the noise reduction is fantastic - tone is Awesome. Couldn't be better. Newest! Virtual Vintage Solo (DP404 10.85k) and Virtual Vintage Solo Pro (DP414 10.72k). Hot pickups with more of a P90 tone than an overwound strat. Now with Alnico 2 magnets for more sustain and a warm, woody tone that is a cross between a violin and a human voice -fully compatible will all other pickups too. The Solo is the hottest and recommended for Bridge position. Area 58 DC resistance 6.12 dp415 There are two major differences between a great vintage Strat® pickup and an average one: treble response and dynamics. A great pickup is clear and bright, but not thin-sounding. A great one makes the sound jump out of the amp when you pick hard and drop way down when you play softly, and the tone varies when the string is picked at different spots. The best pickup we’ve ever heard like this was from 1958, and that’s what inspired the Area ’58™, with two major differences. Our pickup has way less magnet pull, and virtually no hum. Recommended For: neck and middle, can also be used in bridge Tech Talk: The Area ’58™ Dynamic range and string definition are greatly increased, with improvements in both clean chord-playing and overdriven soloing. The ’58™ is very sensitive to small height adjustment differences: close to the strings produces a fatter, slightly compressed blues tone and further away yields crystal clean sounds. The final improvement is in noise reduction. All of the Virtual Vintage® pickups have better hum cancellation than full-size humbuckers. Area '58™ and Area '61™ are even quieter. 
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61 DC resistance 6.48 dp 416DiMarzio has been working on serious vintage single-coil design with no hum for eight years. Our goal has always been to capture the best qualities of pickups we heard from the 1950s and early ‘60s. We’ve played several pickups from the early ‘60s that had a unique tonality: they were steely, yet woody-sounding. This is it. It’s good in all three positions, and it’s a perfect bridge pickup with a pair of Area ‘58s if you want to go all the way from Nashville to Texas in one guitar. Tech Talk: Over the last 10 years we’ve gotten literally hundreds of requests from guitarists asking for the Texas blues sound. This sound is centered on single-coils from the early 1960’s, but it’s also based on heavy strings and strong hands. We can’t change your strings or your hands, but the Area ‘61™ captures the tonal bedrock this sound is based on. Like the Area ’58™, the Area ’61™ really responds to different pick attacks: played hard, it sounds louder and tougher than you’d expect from a vintage pickup, but it cleans up immediately by picking softer or rolling down the volume control. Virtual Vintage 54 Pro Dc resistance 7.5 dp408 The Virtual Vintage® ’54 Pro uses the same ground breaking technology as our Area ’58™ and Area ’61™ pickups. It has a warm, smoky sound, fattens up when you pick hard, and has a special grade of Alnico 2 magnet to reduce string pull. Recommended For: All positions Tech Talk: The major difference between the ’54 Pro and the Area ’61™ is in pick attack. The ’54 Pro has a fatter, ‘woody’ tone, and the sound almost seems to compress when picked hard. Blues players favor this type of sound for the way it fattens up solos, particularly in the bridge position. It’s also good in the neck and middle positions to warm up bright-sounding guitars. Heavy Blues 2 DP409 dc resistance 8.60 The Virtual Vintage® Heavy Blues 2 is a hot bridge pickup with a strong attack in the bridge position, and its Alnico 2 magnets allow it to work very well in the neck position as well, for players who want a very warm, round sound. Recommended For: Bridge; can also be used in neck and middle. Tech Talk:The same technology that allowed us to create the pure vintage Strat® sound of the Area ‘58™ can also be used to design a much heavier pickup. The Heavy Blues 2™ has more mids and lows while still possessing outstanding pick attack. This also makes it an excellent pickup for the arpeggios and sweep picking classical metal players prefer, because it does not become muddy even with high gain. There are a lot of models, check out the DiMarzio web site if you want more details. |
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