Making a vintage single-coil pickup that's clean and bright is easy, but to also have the high strings to sounding sweet above the 12th fret – that's a bit more challenging. Enter the DiMarzio True Velvet. It makes this happen by tuning the coil to a frequency range that's bright but not thin, and employing 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