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Better Tone, More Options!
Better Tone, More Options!
Pickups are the amplifed voice of your guitar. Getting the right pickups and choosing the right electronics and wiring can make a huge difference in what you hear in your headphones or on stage.
Acoustic Pickups
Acoustic Pickups
Acoustic pickups can be active or passive. They can be bridge piezo, undersaddle, microphone or magnetic. It's not major surgery, but it can be pretty tricky to choose and install.
Electric Pickups
Electric Pickups
Just a magnet inside a bird's nest of wire... but, oh the magic it creates! Installing and replacing pickups is very fiddly. Always a good choice to hand it off to a pro.
Wiring & Soldering
Wiring & Soldering
Save yourself some frustration. Wiring guitars is more than firing up a soldering pen and melting some stuff together. It's not rocket science, but it does take take practice and experience.
Hollow Body Access
Hollow Body Access
Wiring and repairing F-hole style guitars is a like a sub-specialty of mine: shrink-reinforced connections, copious zip-tie wire groups, and surgical tubing for installation.
Coil Splitting & More
Coil Splitting & More
Got a humbucker or two? You are probably missing out on a world of tonal options. Splits, taps, variable taps, series vs. parallel... plus there are so many cool switching options.
The Kill Switch
The Kill Switch
It's not just for Buckethead and Tom Morello. These things are super fun, and easy to install. Lots of great colors, sizes and even light-up options.
Wiring Mods
Wiring Mods
Treble bleeds, blower switches, greasebuckets... Mods can solve issues, create new options, and give your guitar some some new secret sauce. Feeling adventurous? Let's talk.
Better Components = Better Tone!
Inside your guitar lives a network of components that shape your tone as much as the pickups themselves. Upgrading these often-overlooked parts can deliver improved clarity, depth and output.
Potentiometers (or "Pots") are the hardware below your knobs. Good pots (like AxLabs, CTS or Bournes) improve your tone and last longer.
Capacitors filter out high-end frequencies when you turn down your Tone knob. I like to use Orange Drop caps, made for guitars and basses!
Output Jacks are not all the same! I like to install these PureTone jacks that have four points of contact to improve output and tone.
Switches take a lot of use and abuse, so using high quality switches is important! They can also used as coil-splitters for humbucking pickups.
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