Takes you all the way from Nashville to Texas.

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.

Tech Talk: Over the last 10 years DiMarzio received 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. 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.

Great vintage sound fortified with today's technology. Order now!

DiMarzio DP416 Area '61 Pickup Specifications:

• Wiring: 4 Conductor
• Magnet: Alnico 2
• Output: 142
• DC Resistance: 6.46

DiMarzio DP416 Area '61 Pickup

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Plays Well With Others

Posted by Guillermo from Alabama on Oct 23, 2009

Experience w/product: I have heard about it

Reviewer's Background: Educated Hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: Blues, Classic and Modern Rock, Progressive

This pickup gets and A+ for tone. It's everything the reviews say, bright, vintage sounding, noiseless, perfect. But this pickup also gets an A+ in conduct. It sounds so good coupled with an area 67 in the middle or 58 in the neck and my player's strat allows me to use all three or bridge and neck together and thos work great too. It is one of the three perfect vintage and or/noiseless single coils, period.

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Great strat bridge pickup

Posted by BigBo from Raleigh, NC on Jun 28, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Weekender

Reviewer's Play Style: All of it boy

This is a great bridge pickup for your strat. It is bright, clear, and handles distortion very well. Paired with two area 58's in the neck and middle, you can have all the strat tones with zero noise at your finger tips. This is quite a bright pickup, so what I do is wire it instead of the middle pickup to one of the tone controls, and play with the tone pot on about 6 or 7ish. It allows you to roll off some of the high end.

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Incredible tone... and noisless

Posted by stratthat from seattle, wa on Sep 9, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Alternative, Blues

I bought a couple of the area 61's about a year ago. Put them in the neck and middle on a 2007 mexican strat. They sounded wonderful and clean (and noiseless), but they could still handle a good amount of gain without losing their wonderful tone. However, I wasn't really able to compare them to other high-end noiseless pickups. Then recently I brought my strat into guitar center to check out a new amp and compared it to a deluxe american strat with the samarium cobalt noiseless pickups. I know that tone is subjective, but the area 61's blew the SCN's away - and I had previously thought the SCN's were a great pickup. Anyhow, buy them. You won't be disappointed.

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Posted by Finally from LA on Feb 18, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Professional

Reviewer's Play Style: Blues/ Rock

I love the sound of Fender Texas Specials but I hate the noise. I replaced them with two Area 61s and a Virtual Vintage in the brige position. I've used just about all the others these are the best PERIOD.

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Tone all the way

Posted by thestratkid31 from barrackville, WV on Jul 6, 2007

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: hobbyist/fanatic

Reviewer's Play Style: all over the musical pallet

i have had these in my 88 strat for a little over a year, i am crazy about them, i have one the the bridge, and one in the neck, i have an area 58 in the mid, they all sound great, well worth the money, i can get any tone i want out of them, and my musical tastes are all over the place, also, they are super quite, i think they are the holy grail of single coil pickups, i just can`t say enough about them

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