920D Custom DiMarzio Area '58 / '67 / '61 Loaded Stratocaster Pickguard w/ 7-Way Switching, PA/WH

• DiMarzio Area 58 DP415 Neck Pickup
• DiMarzio Area 67 DP419 Middle Pickup
• DiMarzio Area 61 DP416 Bridge Pickup
• Fender Parchment Pickguard
• White Skirt Knobs
• Push-Pull Pot (the push pull pot activates the neck pickup, which is what we call 7- way switching.)
• Genuine CTS 250K Pots
• Vintage Wiring
• Easy Installation

DiMarzio Area 58
There are two major differences between a great vintage Strat pickup and an average one: treble response and dynamics. A great pickup is clear and bright, but not thin-sounding. 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. The best pickup we've ever heard like this was from 1958, and that's what inspired the Area 58, with two major differences. Our pickup has way less magnet pull, and virtually no hum.

• DC Resistance: 6.15K
• Output: 125mV
• Magnet: Alnico 2
• Wiring: 4 conductor

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. Dynamic range and string definition are greatly increased, leading to improvements in both clean chord-playing and overdriven soloing. 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. The final improvement is in noise reduction. All of the Virtual Vintage pickups have better hum cancellation than full-size humbuckers. Area '58 and Area 61 are even quieter.

DiMarzio Area 67
The Monterey Pop Festival of 1967 was a watershed event in American music. When it was over, the world had heard and felt the sound of a Strat in the hands of a master. Single-coils in 1967 were bright and very clean. And, of course, they hummed. We've captured the classic bright and clean sound but totally eliminated the hum with our patented Area technology. We've also reduced magnet pull by 40% for improved sustain and clarity. The Area 67 has the chime of 60s pickups, and the 2 and 4 positions are light, bright and quack-happy.

• DC Resistance: 5.86K
• Output: 120mV
• Magnet: Alnico 2
• Wiring: 4 conductor

Tech Talk: Strat pickups in the late 1960s used full-strength Alnico 5 magnets. The patented magnetic field of the Area models is more efficient and focused than it is on 'true' single-coils, which allows us to use Alnico 2 instead. There's much less magnet pull, but no loss of output. 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. In the bridge position, the patented technology of the Area 67 produces a sound that's very bright but not brittle.

DiMarzio Area 61
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.

• DC Resistance: 6.43K
• Output: 142mV
• Magnet: Alnico 2
• Wiring: 4 conductor

Tech Talk: 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 1960's, 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.

• Fender Stratocaster Pickguard
• Parchment
• 3-Ply
• 11 Hole Pickguard
• Fits:
  • American
  • American Standard
  • Hot Rod and Deluxe Series Stratocasters (USA)
  • Standard
  • Deluxe and '70s Stratocasters (Mexico)