The Virtual Vintage® ’54 Pro uses the same ground breaking technology as our Area ’58™ and Area ’61™ pickups. The ’54 Pro replaces the Virtual Vintage ‘54 and VirtuAL 2® middle pickups. It has a warm, smoky sound, fattens up when you pick hard, and has a special grade of Alnico 2 magnet to reduce string pull. And like all of the Virtual Vintage® models, it’s dead quiet.
Recommended For: All positions
Tech Talk: The major difference between the ’54 Pro and the Area ’61™ is in pick attack. The ’54 Pro has a fatter, ‘woody’ tone, and the sound almost seems to compress when picked hard. Blues players favor this type of sound for the way it fattens up solos, particularly in the bridge position. It’s also good in the neck and middle positions to warm up bright-sounding guitars.
