Drawing 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. 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. 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.
Model: DP416W
