Dimarzio Area pickup questions
swangdb
"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."
I guess they are saying you can get both a country sound and a Texas
blues sound with these pickups.
So, with an Area 61 in the bridge of a strat, just how twangy can it
sound? Is it twangy at all? I'm not trying to turn my strat into a
Tele and I know some twang comes from picking styles and such. I have
Dimarzio VVs in my strat and they sound good, the bridge is a 410 and
it sounds good for rock and roll but I wouldn't mind if it were a
little twangier.
Just curious.
Squier
Here's the best setup I have found (at least for me)
no noise and no one knows they are noiseless (they really do
sound like great single coils except no usual hum)
Dimarzio Area 58 - neck
Dimarzio Area 61 - middle
Dimarzio VV Blues DP402 - Bridge
Use 250k pots and .047 tone cap. Wire in the bridge pup
to a tone pot so you can tone control for all 3 pups.
Don't get the 'VV Heavy Blues' or you'll regret it (imho)
Stick with the DP402 regular Blues pup for the bridge.
Twang is more a style of playing than a tone. Any guitar can 'twang'.
You can twang on a Les Paul if you want to. It's just that certain
guitars lend themselves to showcasing that type of playing.
A good Telecaster can get pronounced 'twang' because of the design
of the guitar. But a Tele with a fat overwound 'broadcaster' type
brudge pup with get a much different 'twang' than a more 60's (which
is what people currently think of when Tele tones come to mind) type
of bridge pup which is less wound up and much more trebly sounding.
I found the Area 61 in the bridge was a bit too trebly for my tastes
but was perfect for old skool funk rhythms and leads and R&B rhythms
and nice clean out front high mids and treble tones (which can actually
sit nicely in a mix when other instruments and all competing for mids
and lower mids).
The pup setup I mentioned above really sits nicely with all the
Fender Strats I have tried that pickguard on (I have pre-wired pickguards
I can just pop in and out when I want). The DP402 bridge pup really
cuts nice and is a really versatile bridge pup. Great cleans and
it really shines when you boost it up or overdrive it. You can even
give it a kick with distortion and it doesn't smoosh out or get flubby.
Anyways, that's my recommendation. If you can't get some killer
tones with that pup setup and a good Strat and amp - then you don't
know how to play. It's that simple.
swangdb
> Here's the best setup I have found (at least for me)
> no noise and no one knows they are noiseless (they really do
> sound like great single coils except no usual hum)
>
> Dimarzio Area 58 - neck
> Dimarzio Area 61 - middle
> Dimarzio VV Blues DP402 - Bridge
>
> Use 250k pots and .047 tone cap. Wire in the bridge pup
> to a tone pot so you can tone control for all 3 pups.
Right now I have VV 2.1 (DP401) for the neck and middle and a VV 2.2
(DP410) for bridge. It's a good-sounding guitar but it's not quite
there. I used the Jimmy Vaughan wiring, the middle pickup isn't
connected to a tone control and the bridge pickup is.
The neck pickup is my least favorite of the three, it's sounds okay
but is a tad dark.
The middle pickup is my favorite of the three. I wonder if the lack
of tone control is why, it sounds really clear.
The bridge pickup sounds good, especially for rock, but it's not quite
there.
Now you've got me interested in both the Area 61 AND the VV Blues for
the bridge and an Area 58 for the neck.
> Twang is more a style of playing than a tone. Any guitar can 'twang'.
> You can twang on a Les Paul if you want to.
I have done this, but it's easier with single-coil style pickups. I
wish Dimarzio would voice a Strat bridge pickup like the Area T bridge
pickup, but I might be the only person who would buy one!
> I found the Area 61 in the bridge was a bit too trebly for my tastes
I want a trebly bridge pickup! At least, I think I do.
> Anyways, that's my recommendation. If you can't get some killer
> tones with that pup setup and a good Strat and amp - then you don't
> know how to play. It's that simple.
Hey, I get some pretty good tones now, but that doesn't mean I know
how to play!! ;-)
Thanks for the help!!
Mark Outrage
ok; since I'm trying to go in the opposite direction, here's my .02:
try the HS-2 (the HS-3 and YJM are good, too, and work well in 2/4 positions)
The Fast Track 2 is the Anti-Twang solution, it has a nice, beefy dual-coil tone
swangdb
> ok; since I'm trying to go in the opposite direction, here's my .02:
> try the HS-2 (the HS-3 and YJM are good, too, and work well in 2/4 positions)
> The Fast Track 2 is the Anti-Twang solution, it has a nice, beefy dual-coil tone
Thanks, I'd like to hear one of these. I had an HS-3 several years
ago but it was a little too "thick" sounding for me.
swangdb
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:29:39 -0700 (PDT), swangdb
> <swan...@auburn.edu>wrote:
> >So, with an Area 61 in the bridge of a strat, just how twangy can it
> >sound? Is it twangy at all? I'm not trying to turn my strat into a
> Won't twang at all.
Drat. Thanks!