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 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. And like the Area 58, its ability to cancel hum is superior to
full-size humbuckers.
Recommended For: All positions.
Quick Connect: No
Wiring: 4 Conductor
Magnet: Alnico 2
Resistance: 6.43 Kohm
Year of Introduction: 2006
Color: Black
