Upgrading, what else, a MIM strat. Any feedback on which of these sets of PUP's will sound better. I play blues into classic rock, looking for a SRV, Rory Gallagher vibe.
Thanks.

The DiMarzio V.V. Areas with this combo: 67 in the neck, 58 in the middle and 61 in the bridge.

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I have these pickups in my MIA Strat. At first I had it the way that you’re thinking; 67 neck; 58 middle; 61 bridge. Later I changed it to 58, 67, 61 to get maximum “quack” that I really like in 2 & 4 switch position. Overall these are some of the best humbucker pickups to put into any Strat and preserve that classic tone.

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I have a MIM that I replaced the pickups on with DiMarzios. An area 67 in the neck, area 58 in the middle and a PAF Pro humbucker in the bridge. Very nice pickups. No 60 cycle hum.

+1 on the Dimarzios.

I have Area67(Neck), Area61(middle) and Heavy Blues(Bridge)

This works very well. The neck has a fat sound but not too bass heavy. The bridge isn't shrill at all with the Heavy Blues.

This config kind of gives you wide and almost scooped sound at the neck, a more mid rangy sound in the middle and even more focused midrangy sound at the bridge.
So you loose some of the dark sound at the neck and bright sound at the bridge, but for me this is what I like. My tone control can do the rest.