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DiMarzio True Velvet - Neck (DP175), Middle (DP175S), Bridge (DP176)

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It's not difficult to make a vintage single-coil pickup that's clean and bright, but not so easy if you also want the high strings to sound sweet above the 12th fret. The True Velvet™ Neck Model was designed to make this happen by tuning the coil to a frequency range that’s bright but not thin. DiMarzio combines this with a magnet stagger specifically designed to enhance string balance, which produces great clarity, even with full chords. The True Velvet™ Neck Model comes standard with hand-ground magnets and vintage cloth covered wire.

Recommended for neck and all positions

The True Velvet™ is a further development of DiMarzio's Blue Velvet™ line. DiMarzio has retuned the basic frequency response to hone in on the strongest aspects of vintage single-coil tone. The best vintage single-coils emphasized a "sweet spot" where the sound is bright but not piercing. The True Velvet™ is tuned to this spot, making it equally effective for many playing styles, from the clarity of country music to the grit of Texas blues.

Wiring Two conductor
Magnet Alnico 5
Output 130mV
DC Resistance 6.21K
Year of introduction 2008

DiMarzio Virtual Solo (DP420)

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DiMarzio has combined the best qualities of the DiMarzio DP404 Virtual Vintage Solo™ and DiMarzio DP414 Virtual Vintage Solo Pro™ – high output and a full, warm sound – and pushed these qualities even further. Treble response is smoother, the lows are tighter, and there is more pick attack. Play hard, and the sound jumps out of the amp. Play softer, and the sound becomes cleaner and quieter. And of course, there’s no hum.

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The Virtual Vintage Solo™ and Solo Pro™ both have specific qualities Dimarzio likes a lot, but they felt the sound could be even bigger. Making the highs both fatter and louder without any loss of definition on the lows creates a bridge pickup that can sound both warm and intense, and the Virtual Solo™ performs equally well with clean and heavily overdriven amps.

Wiring Four Conductor
Magnet Alnico 2
Output 205mV
DC Resistance 11.7K
Year of introduction 2008
Patent # 4,442,749 and 5,908,802

DiMarzio Area '67 (DP419)

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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. DiMarzio have captured the classic bright and clean sound but totally eliminated the hum with their patented Area™ technology. They'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.

All positions, especially neck and middle

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.

Wiring Four Conductor
Magnet Alnico 2
Output 120mV
DC Resistance 5.86K
Year of introduction 2008
Patent # 4,442,749 and 5,908,802

DiMarzio Area '61 (DP416)

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DiMarzio has been working on a serious vintage single-coil design with no hum for eight years. DiMarzio's goal has always been to capture the best qualities of pickups heard from the 1950s and early 1960s. They played several pickups from the early 1960s that had a unique tonality: they were steely, yet woody sounding. Naturally they wanted to nail this sound and they wanted to do it with no hum and less magnet pull.

Wiring: 4 Conductor
Magnet: Alnico 2
Output: 142 mv
DC Resistance: 6.43k

It's good in all three positions and it's 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.

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.

DC Resistance is 6.46 KOhms

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DiMarzio Area '58 (DP415)

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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. And a great one makes the sound jump out of the amp when you pick hard and drop away when you play softly, and the tone varies when the string is picked at different spots. The best pickup that DiMarzio heard that was like that was from 1958 and that is what inspired the Area '58, with two major differences. DiMarzio's pickup has less magnet pull, and virtually no hum.

Wiring: 4 Conductor
Magnet: Alnico 2
Output: 125 mv
DC Resistance: 6.15k

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.

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DiMarzio HS-2 (DP116)

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Classic, all-round stacked coils. Used as the middle pickup in the Ibanez Steve Vai JEM guitar.The HS-2™ has history behind it. The HS™ series were the first humbucking Strat® replacement pickups we made in the early 1980s. Since then, the HS-2™ has become popular for two distinct qualities: in humbucking mode, it’s got a solid, natural sound that’s cleaner and brighter than a conventional humbucker, while single-coil mode creates one of the best vintage tones around. Because of its patented design, single-coil mode is not as noisy as a standard single-coil pickup. Taken together with the dead-quiet humbucking mode, this is an excellent pickup to use with rack systems and high-gain amps.

In the classic Strat configuration, the HS-2™ works in all 3 positions. It can also be part of a mixed set with the HS-3™ and YJM™ models. The HS-2™ also works in H-S-H combinations, recommended with PAF Pro®, Fred®, Air Classic™ and Humbucker From Hell® in neck and bridge positions.

DiMarzio - The Cruiser Bridge (DP187) and Neck (DP186)

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Dual blade - hum cancelling vintage Strat sound. If you’re a serious traditional Strat® player, you probably won’t want to know about pickups with side - by - side coils. But if you’re the player who’s up for something more modern with no 60-cycle hum, string drop-outs or sustain-killing magnet pull, we designed The Cruiser® for you. Harmonic overtones are right where you expect them to be from a ?true? single-coil, and the mid-range is open and vocal-sounding. It’s hotter than the traditional single-coil, and the bass strings have a bit more chunk; this is an excellent pickup to combine with medium-output humbuckers, and it maintains its tonal identity with high-gain amps and multiple effects.

Wiring: 4 Conductor
Magnet: Ceramic
Output: 143 mv
DC Resistance: 5.75k

The obvious question about the Cruiser™ is "How real is the sound?" Our feeling is that the unwound strings (E, B and G) are very close, and the wound strings (D, A and low E) are a little fatter-sounding than a true single-coil. This is really effective for getting big-sounding chords, because high and low strings sound more spread out from each other. Having a total magnet pull that's about 40% less than standard single-coils also means the Cruiser™ can be adjusted much closer to the strings for more power than stock pickups can achieve.

Seymour Duncan Antiquity II™ Surfer, Surfer Custom Bridge and Rw/Rp

Don't let the name fool you: the '60s Surfer™ pickup would be equally comfortable in the smoky clubs of Chicago's West Side as hanging ten at the Malibu Pier. The Antiquity II Surfer is hailed by many members of the Seymour Duncan User Group Forum as the ultimate pickup for vintage Strat® chime and quack. Whether you play Blues, West Side Soul, Surf, or Jangle Pop, the Surfer has the sweet highs and percussive lows to give you and your Strat a Free Ride on the Way Back Machine without sacrificing output or versatility.

A Custom Bridge version is available for those players needing more output from the bridge position; and an RW/RP version is available for the middle position.

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Seymour Duncan STK-S4 Classic Stack Plus

New patent applied for design to remove hum and preserve traditional single coil tone. Recommended for country, pop, surf, rockabilly, blues, ska and classic rock.

Revolutionary design injects tunable “negative hum” into the pickup circuit. Each unit is individually factory pre-tuned to offer the optimal traditional single coil sound with no hum.
For all well-balanced instruments. Works equally well with maple and rosewood fingerboards. Three-conductor cable allows splitting for true single coil mode. When three STK-S4s are all split, the middle pickup is RW/RP allowing hum-cancellation when used with the neck or bridge pickup.

Players: Nuno Bettencourt / Dramagods
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Seymour Duncan Antiquity Texas hot™ for strat®

For years now Seymour has been custom-making these pickups for his friends and special artist friends.

Each Texas Hot™ is carefully assembled and hand-wound like the traditional classics. Careful attention to details like scatter-winding ensures that the Texas Hot looks and sounds like a classic Strat® should. Seymour makes them for the player wanting the closest re-creation of a vintage pickup. Period.

The magnets are calibrated and the coils are wound "top going" with "north" magnetic polarity, the same as the early vintage models. Each cover is individually aged: not just injection molded with custom colored plastics. Each pickup comes complete with screws, schematics and vintage "push back" cloth braid hookup wire. Also, an RW/RP version is available for the middle position.

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Texas Hot

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Seymour Duncan SVR-1 vintage rails™

Vintage output single-coil-sized "rails" humbucker with the sound of a vintage Strat®. Perfect for country, pop, surf, rockabilly, blues, ska and classic rock. Vintage Rails use a unique split rail, twin coil design and special (parallel) wiring to achieve true, vintage, single-coil tone without hum. The sound is clean, clear and bright, with all of the "quack" you love in the notch positions. Though tonally similar to Duckbuckers, the rails design eliminates any potential dropout in string bending. Comes with four-conductor cable. USA Patent No. 5,525,750.

Available for both bridge and neck/middle positions.

For an incredibly versatile guitar, use an SVR-1n in the middle position along with an SHR-1b Hot Rails in the bridge and an SCR-1n Cool Rails in the neck.

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Seymour Duncan SDBR-1 Duckbucker™

SDBR-1 Such a silly name for such a serious pickup! Using a patented design and a voicing based on our Vintage Rails™. Duckbuckers offer the advantage of incorporating six fully adjustable pole pieces. And by using the true hum canceling construction together with a unique, split blade design, Duckbuckers duplicate all the warm tone, cool output, and outrageous quack of a vintage Strat® pickup. All quack, no hum. U.S. Patent No. 5,525,750.
Available in black or white

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Seymour Duncan SSL-2 Vintage Flat Pole Pickup

SSL-2 - Flat pole piece, vintage-voiced, true single-coil for warm instruments. Recommended for country, pop, surf, rockabilly, blues, ska and classic rock.

This pickup combines the same vintage coil design as the SSL-1, with hand ground rod Alnico 5 magnets of equal length raised above the flatwork. The flat magnet pattern provides the balanced field necessary for an even response using today's strings (unwound "G") and flatter neck radii. The more even output response is noticed when bending strings. Like the SSL-1, the pickup is clean and vintage-like with a bright "bell" tone that has a sharper attack characteristic compared to the APS-2. Comes with waxed cloth hookup cable and vintage-style "keyed" bottom plate.

Calibrated set available with RW/RP middle pickup.

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Seymour Duncan SSL-1 Vintage Staggered Pole Pickup

SSL-1 An exact replica of the original Alnico V Stratocaster® pickups. The same type of magnet wire is used, as well as the same number of coil windings. The staggered rod magnets are hand-ground, then aged by the exclusive Dun-Aged™ process, lacquered bobbins and cloth-braid hookup wire complete the vintage look. Every detail is included to duplicate the bell-like tone and the high-end bite that made the vintage Strat® famous.

Available in left-handed version
Available reverse wound, reverse polarity (RW/RP)
Available in calibrated sets with a RW/RP middle

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Seymour Duncan APS-2 Alnico II Pro™ Flat

APS-2 This pickup combines the same coil design as its predecessor, the APS-1, with rod magnets of equal length raised above the flatwork. The flat magnet pattern provides the balanced field necessary for an even response using today's strings and flatter neck radii. The Alnico II magnets' softer magnetic field creates a warmer, smoother sound and eliminates the brittle, glassy sound associated with new instruments.
Available RW/RP. Available in calibrated sets with a RW/RP middle

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Seymour Duncan APS-1 Alnico II Pro™ Staggered

APS-1 Alnico II magnets are the musical magnets. Their softer magnetic field provides a warmer, sweeter tone and eliminates the brittle, glassy sound associated with newer instruments. The result is a freer, more natural string vibration for greater sustain. Available in a left-handed version with a reversed staggered magnet patter for lefties or for right-handed players striving for that classic Hendrix sound.

Available in left-handed version - contact us.

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Seymour Duncan APST-1 twang banger™

True single-coil pickup that makes a Strat® sound like a Tele®. Recommended for country, pop, rockabilly, blues, jam, classic rock and heavy rock. If you want the twangy, muscular punch of a gutsy Tele® in your Strat, the APST-1 is for you. One of the secrets is the copper-coated steel bottom plate. Combine that with the aggressive coil windings, the Alnico 2 magnets wrapped in plain enamel wire, and the result is a high-output, single-coil, twang-beast.

Recommended for the bridge position with either APS-2s (for a maple fingerboard) or SSL-2s (for a rosewood fingerboard) in the neck and middle positions. For all well-balanced instruments. Works equally well with maple and rosewood fingerboards.

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Lace Sensors - Gold
Lace Sensors were standard original equipment on Fender Stratocaster guitars from 1987 to 1996. The company founded by the late Don Lace continues today making innovative pickups.

The Lace Sensor® Series has less magnetic pull. more sustain, a unique radiant field barrier design that surrounds both the coil and magnets, reducing annoying 60-cycle hum. The patented Lace Micro Matrix Combs® replace traditional bobbins, creating a wider tonal range and better string balance than traditional pickups.

Original Sensor Series, Hum Reduced designs, Great Tone! The Gold Lace sensor was fitted as original equipment to the original Fender Eric Clapton Strat and is designed to replicate the classic tone of a Vintage Strat pickup without the hum.

Gold - 50's tone, 5.8k Note: Standard colour is white.

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Lace Holy Grail - Set of 3

The Lace Holy Grail™ is the ultimate hum cancelling vintage toned pickup; the tone of a '54 Strat® without the noise or the price tag.

Conventional stacked pickups sacrifice the high and low end, but the Holy Grail's patented break-through sidewinder design retains the depth and the sparkle that is the hallmark of vintage tone. Pure Alnico 5 magnets combined with Lace technology delivers that classic tone you have been searching for.

Bridge pickup has 11.5KOhm resistance. Available in black, white, aged white or mint..

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EMG S2

The S2 Pickup is the prototypical Strat style pickup still utilizing the stacked design. If you're looking for that true single coil tone, this is it. The highs are bright and peaky, with just the right mix of mids. The low end is clear and bright, but is there when you need it. All HZ Pickups have EMG's exclusive 5-wire quik-connect output allowing any number of wiring combinations, and are fully shielded for a minimum of noise. String grounding is recommended to further decrease noise.
Options Available: ONLY AVAILABLE IN BLACK.

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Vintage Tone

DiMarzio True Velvet - Neck (DP175), Middle (DP175S), Bridge (DP176)

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DiMarzio Virtual Solo (DP420)

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DiMarzio Area '67 (DP419)

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DiMarzio Area '61 (DP416)

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DiMarzio Area '58 (DP415)

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DiMarzio HS-2 (DP116)

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DiMarzio - The Cruiser Bridge (DP187) and Neck (DP186)

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Bare Knuckle The Sultans Single Coil Pickup

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Bare Knuckle The Apache Single Coil Pickup

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