Virtual Vintage® Blues DP402W.

What do you need in order to play blues with a Strat®? The Virtual Vintage® Blues has more power and warmth than a typical single-coil. You can really hear these qualities when you’re playing the Virtual Vintage® Blues. It withstands hard picking and opens up when you’re playing with an overdriven amp. Instead of shrinking away, the sound jumps out of the speakers. These qualities are really useful for getting a fat neck position sound, but they’re outstanding for the bridge position particularly if you have a thin-sounding guitar or use light gauge strings. It’s a tough sounding bridge pickup with warmer guitars, and makes a good neck and middle choice to match with a full-size bridge humbucker. As the rest of the Virtual Vintage® family, it’s dead quiet there’s practically no hum at all.

Recommended For Bridge, but can be used in all positions.

Tech Talk
The Virtual Vintage® Blues Model is a more muscular pickup than typical vintage single-coils. Unlike thinner-sounding pickups, it stands up to hard picking the sound seems to expand through an overdriven amp instead of shrinking away. This quality is really useful for the neck position, if you have a thin-sounding guitar and want to fatten the tone. With warmer-sounding guitars, it’s a strong, tough-sounding bridge pickup. We recommend using 500K controls for extended frequency response, although there’s no problem using 250K controls if you like the warmer tone they provide.

Specs. DP402W:
Finish: White.
Pole pieces: Nickel.
Wiring: 4 Conductor.
Magnet: Alnico 5.
Output mV: 145.
DC Resistance: 8.18 Kohm.
Year of Introduction: 1997.
Patent: 4,442,749 & 5,811,710 & 5,908,998

• INFORMATION

• DP175SW. True Velvet™, Middle pickup.

  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™ was designed to make this happen by tuning the coil to a frequency range that’s bright but not thin. We combined this with a magnet stagger specifically designed to enhance string balance, which produces great clarity, even with full chords. The True Velvet™ Neck and Middle models have the same specs except for reverse polarity on the middle pickup for hum cancellation in the 2 and 4 positions. The True Velvet™ Middle comes standard with hand-ground magnets and vintage cloth covered wire.

  Recommended For Middle Position.

  Tech Talk
  The True Velvet™ is a further development of our Blue Velvet™ line. We’ve re-tuned 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. For technically-minded players, reverse polarity on our true single-coil Strat® replacements is south up.

  Specs. DP175SW:
  Finish: White.
  Pole pieces: Nickel.
  Wiring: 2 Conductor.
  Magnet: Alnico 5.
  Output mV: 130.
  DC Resistance: 6.21 Kohm.
  Year of Introduction: 2008.
  Patent: n/a.