Description
DiMarzio® has been working on serious vintage single-coil design with no hum for twelve 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. Naturally, we wanted to nail this sound, and we wanted to do it with no hum and less magnet-pull. The Area 61™ does it. It’s good in all three positions. It’s the perfect bridge pickup with a pair of Area 58™ pickups if you want to go all the way from Nashville to Texas in one guitar.
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 1960s, but it’s also based on heavy strings and strong hands. We can’t change your strings or your hands, but the Area 61â„¢ captures the tonal bedrock this sound is based on. Like the Area 58â„¢, the Area 61â„¢ 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. And like the Area 58â„¢, its ability to cancel hum is superior to full-size humbuckers.
Recommended for all positions.
Features
- Perfect bridge pickup with a pair of Area 58â„¢ pickups
- Responds well to different pick attacks
- 4 Conductor
- Alnico 2 magnet
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6.43 Kohm resistance
- Output: 142
- Bass: 4.0
- Middle: 4.0
- Treble: 8.5
Item shown: DiMarzio DP416W Area 61 Pickup
Model #: DP416W
UPC: 663334026933
John Durica (verified buyer) –
Great sounding pickup, I was quite surprised! I originally had another pickup for this build selected , but found that the vintage type I wanted wasn’t in stock so I did some review research and saw that these were in stock. I replaced the pick guard on my PRS Silver Sky with a new one which I wired up with a 920D 5way super switch , Seymour Duncan custom shop Pearly Gates for Strat, and 2 Di Marzio area 61’s.The output and tone match to the original silver sky se pickups is very close to the silver sky pickups. The area 61’s retain that nice woody Strat tone without being harsh in the high end, and the added benefit of noiseless . I have had a few different noiseless Strat pickups over the years some high end, these are some of my favourite and would easily buy again !!
Highly Recommended!!!!
John Durica (verified buyer) –
Great sounding pickup, I was quite surprised! I originally had another pickup for this build selected , but found that the vintage type I wanted wasn’t in stock so I did some review research and saw that these were in stock. I replaced the pick guard on my PRS Silver Sky with a new one which I wired up with a 920D 5way super switch , Seymour Duncan custom shop Pearly Gates for Strat in the bridge , and 2 Di Marzio area 61’s.The output and tone match of the Di Marzio’s pickups is very close to the silver sky pickups. The area 61’s retain that nice woody Strat tone without being harsh in the high end, and the added benefit of noiseless . I have had a few different noiseless Strat pickups over the years ,some high end, these are some of my favourite and would easily buy again !!
Highly Recommended!!!!