The New Area '58 / '61 Pickups

These 2 versions of "Texas Flood" demonstrate these very cool new pickups

Version1
Dimarzio Area '58 neck and mid, '61 bridge pickups into a cranked old Fender Princeton 

Version2
Same Area's into Marshall with Sans Amp

Mary
Version of "Wind Cries Mary" Same pickups into clean Marshall

 

Strat with Dimarzio Virtual Vintage Pickups

Neck pickup is DP 410
Middle is DP407 (reverse wound)
Bridge is DP404 (with alnico 2 magnet, eventually became the DP414)

 

Virtual Vintage pickups are noise canceling, yet retain the single coil tone
Here is the bridge pickup comparing the hum canceled tone to the true single tone.
Can you hear much if any difference?

Single/Humbucker

 

 

Recorded straight into cranked SonicCord Toad tube amp in 35 watt mode
In this order:  Bridge with guitar volume on 6 followed by volume on 10,  bridge/middle,  bridge, neck,  middle/neck, neck (all combos parallel)


strat sonic wet.mp3                  strat sonic dry.mp3 

 

 

Clean tones were recorded:  guitar----> 70's Marshall with a touch of reverb and very light compression (Barber Tone Press)---> Computer

 

Clean Tones

Bridge

Neck

6 Tones
Bridge, Bridge/Middle,  Bridge/Neck,  Neck/Middle,  Neck, All   (All combo's in parallel)

6 Tones2
Bridge,  Bridge/Middle,  Bridge/Neck,  Neck/Middle, Neck, All   (All combo's in parallel)

All (parallel)

Combo's in Parallel then Series
All 3, Bridge/Middle , Bridge/Neck, Neck/Middle

 

Warm Jazzy

 

Neck pickup with tone pot down

Neck/Bridge in series with tone pot down

All 3 in series

 

Out of Phase

This is by far the coolest out of phase tone I have ever heard. I normally find the tone to be thin, harsh, and useless. 
Since this is the upper coil bridge out of phase with the lower coil neck, it has affected the tone in a very musical way... to my ear anyway.

Phase

 

Overdriven Tones

 

Overdriven tones were recorded:  Guitar--->Compressor (Barber Tone Press), Tech 21 Sans Amp---->70's Marshall (set clean) with reverb and delay (Boss SE-70)

 

Bridge

Neck

5 Tones
Neck,  Neck/Middle,  Neck/Bridge,  Bridge/Middle, Bridge

 

Parallel, then Series

Bridge/Middle

Neck/Bridge

Neck/Middle