Guitar Wiring Problems: Things to Check Out Before You Spend Money on New Parts
photo by notsogoodphotography I've got a few tips for you that will help you repair your guitar and probably also save some money: Open your guitar's wiring cavity. Watch out on the body finish. ..... [Read More]
 
Reamp guitar tracks after they're recorded
One of the recording tricks used by the big studios is now available to everyone. [Read More]
 
Stratocaster Double Tone Control Mod
This is a simple Stratocaster and Fat Strat wiring modification, that changes the tone control capabilities. With this mod you will have much wider palette of tones to choose from by using the tone c... [Read More]
 
Awesome YT Channels About Guitar Gear
I would like to recomand you some great YouTube channels about guitar gear. They are made by very charismatic dudes, who know quite a lot about the stuff they are showing. Really enioyable things for ... [Read More]
 
How to Wire a Blend Pot?
If you're looking for some new, unique tones with your old two-pickup guitar, this mod project will be helpful. In this article I will show you how to wire a pickup blend potentiometer, together w... [Read More]
 
Simple Wiring in the Music Man Axis Style
Sometimes simple is best. This is what you can think when you're looking on the Music Man Axis or some Charvel guitars. The MM Axis is a two pickup guitar with a simple, 3-way toggle pickup switch... [Read More]
 
Telecaster Direct-Through Mod
A direct-through mod is a very useful tone shaping tool. It will help you make your Telecaster tone brighter and more dynamic when you will need that. It's based on a DPDT switch (push-pull), used... [Read More]
 
Telecaster Wiring With a Series/Parallel Mod
This time I've got something unique for Telecaster fanciers. It's a modification, quite radical, which will allow you to get a fat tone of two pickups in a series wiring. This kind of connecti... [Read More]
 
Brian May's Red Special Wiring Diagram
Brian May's Red Special has got some great futures as a 3-pickup guitar. All p-up configurations are possible, you can reverse the phase of every coil, and there is also a classic volume+tone cont... [Read More]
 
Simple and Popular „Volume + Tone” Guitar Wiring
This time I would like to show you some very popular guitar wiring. It's based on two humbuckers, two pots (volume and tone) and a 3-way pickup selector in the „import style” (China, Korea). This ... [Read More]
 
How a DPDT Switch Works? (DPDT in Guitars)
You can use a DPDT (Double Pole, Double Throw) SW in your guitar wiring in many ways. You can base on this thing many kinds of tone switches. You can use it as a pickup selector. It can switch coils i... [Read More]
 
RG Strat – How to Wire a Stratocaster in Ibanez Style
In this article, I would like to show you an quite simple method of wiring a Stratocaster or a Fat Strat guitar, to reach some functions of the Ibanez RG construction. It's a great proposition fo... [Read More]
 
Direct-Through Strat Mod - Toggle Switch
Direct-through switch is a guitar mod, popular in Stratocasters and Fat Strats. It's designed to send the pickup signal directly to the jack, by omitting all pots. It makes the tone brighter and m... [Read More]
 
How A Guitar Tone Potentiometer Works?
A common guitar tone control is a low-pass filter. It's made from pickup resistance and tone capacitor capacitance. It's called also a RC filter. A tone pot in a guitar is used as a variable resistor ... [Read More]
 
How A Guitar Volume Potentiometer Works?
Every pot used to control guitar's volume is basically a voltage divider. It's used to control how much resistance will be between the fist and the middle lug, and between the middle and the third lug... [Read More]
 
Varitone Project Mk2
This time, my 12-position guitar varitone project is a little bit more complicated. It's still a quite simple circuit, but with a few new configurations. I added a stand-by position – as „0” - and... [Read More]
 
Terminator's Guitar Wiring
Do you remember Terminator movies? Do you remember Terminator's character? He's a cool, reticent, strong and effective killing machine. What kind of guitar this dude play? I'm sure it.... [Read More]
 
Fat Strat Mod (Fender + Charvel)
In this post I would like to present a Fat-Strat (HSS Stratocaster) modification project. It's based on functions of classic Strat and Charvel guitar wirings. The target of this construction is to... [Read More]
 
How to Install a Varitone (Wiring Options)
A varitone switch can be installed as a part of a guitar wiring in two ways: before the volume control, or after it. It really has a matter for your guitar tone. This article will help you choose the ... [Read More]
 
Varitone Project - 12 Positions
The varitone is a multi-position guitar tone switch. It's a great thing for DIY guitar electronics enthusiasts, because every position of this tone controller can be designed almost independently.... [Read More]