This is a fantastic pickup for a few different reasons. Firstly, because its got a great vintage tone with a slightly higher output, great for the bridge position of a strat. It's also hum cancelling so there's no unwanted noise coming from my amp. I have it in the middle position of my strat with a super distortion humbucker in the bridge and the super dist. is so high output that most single coils cant come near it in terms volume, usually when you switch from a humbucker to a single-coil the volume just drops but the area 67 doesnt suffer as much as lower output pickups while still retaining a nice vintage tone. It sounds great clean and when overdriven, you can get some nice blackmore-esque tones.