Tech Talk: Over the last 10 years DiMarzio received hundreds of requests from guitarists asking for the Texas blues sound. The DP416 Area '61 succeeds admirably, is good in all three positions, and is 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. DiMarzio has been working on serious vintage single-coil design with no hum for eight years, with the goal of capturing the best qualities of guitar pickups from the 1950s and early '60s. In the bridge position, the patented technology of the Area '67 pickup produces a sound that's very bright but not brittle.ĭrawing upon the steely, yet woody-sounding tonality of several pickups from the early '60s, DiMarzio has produced a modern version of these vintage gems with no hum and less magnet pull. This is a major advantage in the neck and middle positions, where sustain and intonation can both suffer if the strings are exposed to strong magnetic fields. There's much less magnet pull, but no loss of output. The patented magnetic field of the Area models is more efficient and focused than it is on true single-coils, which allows DiMarzio to use Alnico 2 in the DP419 instead. Recommended For: All positions, especially neck and middle.Tech Talk: Strat pickups in the late 1960s used full-strength Alnico 5 magnets. They also reduced magnet pull by 40% for improved sustain and clarity.
DiMarzio has captured this classic bright and clean sound but totally eliminated the hum with patented Area technology. Single-coil electric guitar pickups in 1967 were bright and very clean. When it was over, the world had heard and felt the sound of a Strat in the hands of a master. The Monterey Pop Festival of 1967 was a watershed event in American music. The DiMarzio DP419 Area '67 is a hum canceling pickup that has the chime of '60s pickups, and its 2 and 4 positions are light, bright and quack-happy. The Area '58 and Area '61 are even quieter. All of the Virtual Vintage pickups have better hum cancellation than full-size humbuckers. The final improvement is in noise reduction. 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. Dynamic range and string definition are greatly increased, leading to improvements in both clean chord-playing and overdriven soloing. Tech Talk: The Area '58 has obvious similarities to the Virtual Vintage 2.1 it replaces, but there are several non-visible performance factors that have changed. DiMarzio designed the Area '58 to fit this profile exactly. 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. A great pickup is clear and bright, but not thin-sounding. It's recommended for neck and middle, and can also be used in the bridge position. The Area '58 has way less magnet pull, and virtually no hum. Additional features include three hot single-coil pickups with AlNiCo 3 magnets (middle pickup is reverse wound/reverse polarity), a vintage-style synchronized tremolo system, Greasebucket tone circuit and a satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish.DiMarzio modeled their Area '58 after one of the most celebrated Strat pickups from 1958, with two major differences. Replaces Highway One Stratocaster - First Seriesįeatures an alder body, a modern “C”-shaped maple neck with a rosewood or maple fingerboard and 22 jumbo frets. The Greasebucket Tone Circuit allows to rolls off highs without adding bass. Saddle Height Adjustment Wrench: 1.5 mm Hex *Available in the left handed model only until 12/2007 Pickguard: 3-Ply Parchment, 11 Holes (config modern) Tuning Machines: Fender/Ping Standard Cast/Sealed Tuning Machines Saddles: Vintage Style, "FENDER"/"FENDER" same direction Neck Pickup: Hot Single-Coil Strat Pickup with Alnico 3 Magnets, flat polesĬontrols: Master Volume, Greasebucket Tone Circuit (Neck), Greasebucket Tone Circuit (Bridge)īridge: Vintage Style Synchronized Tremolo Middle Pickup: Hot Single-Coil Strat Pickup with Alnico 3 Magnets, flat poles Other Decals, back: "MADE IN U.S.A.", serialīridge Pickup: Hot Single-Coil Strat Pickup with Alnico 3 Magnets, flat poles
Other Decals, front: "STRATOCASTER", "ORIGINAL Contour Body PATENTED" Truss Rod: Headstock adjustment, but not BiFlex Position Inlays: White Dot (rosewood), Black Dot (maple) narrow spacing
011-1126-(Color#): left handed, only rosewoodīody Finish: Satin Nitrocellulose Lacquer