Why it is literally thin wire wrapped around a plastic bobbin or bobbins with a magnet. You can buy everything you need to start winding pickups for a few hundred bucks, a couple months of research and buy good quality parts that your research determined would sound like you want it too and voila. I have done it myself.
I don't blame you about modding guitars and making them more "personal". I'm currently doing the same with my 4 string bass, an 800€ 2008 Warwick Streamer Bolt-On. I've replaced the hardware with golden one, and the tuners with gotoh res o' lites to have a lighter headstock. But the best part is that I've routed the bridge pickup cavity for a musicman humbucker. This bass was originally delivered with a PJ configuration, vut I've modded it in order to have a "P+MM" configuration with a coil split for the humbucker along with active EQ and parametric mids The main philosophy behind this project was: why should I get more basses to get specific sounds, when i can rule them all with a single one? By doing so my bass can be a P bass, a PJ bass, and a Musicman Bass. I have 4 different sounds in one bass guitar
I’m glad to know someone else is as passionate about modding harley benton’s as i am, i got a pink fusion T and i swapped the humbucker in the neck with a P90 and now it sounds amazing and super expressive
i have a schecter reaper with a sustainiac and just like yours it started giving me issues and no guitar tech i brought it to in my town could pin the problem. so earlier this year i decided to take the plunge into guitar modding and began with my reaper. i removed the sustainiac and all its parts and left the passive bridge pickup in there. i also soldered in new pots, and a new output jack as well. it was some good practice and eventually i tackled a set of fishman moderns for my esp ec-1000 and it left me with an itch to keep modding my guitars. i wasn't to stoked on leaving my reaper as a 1 pickup guitar so i bought a set of tim henson signatures and just finished putting them in yesterday. it was my first time wiring in a 5 way switch as well. i also used the existing empty routes in the guitar to put a mini switch in for the voice 2 on the pickups instead of a push pull knob, which i don't like either. its been a lot of fun and fulfilling learning to do all this myself. i might try putting a kill switch in my reaper since i still have 1 empty hole left from the sustainiac system. i dont know that i'd get much use of it but should be a fun little project. nice collection btw, i've been looking at one of those schecter hellraiser hybrids for years now as well. that finish is just awesome.
It’s SOO fun . I dont do dumb mods but I can almost always find something to improve upon even on high end instruments. The ONLY guitar I have that I couldn’t find something to improve upon is a 2008 PRS CU24 10 top . It’s pretty much perfect. I also don’t make permanent mods on high end stuff .. just mods I can reverse for resale if I so choose . I love modding stuff in general . I’m an American , so I also love modding my pew sticks . That’s an entirely different rabbit hole but just as fun , if not more , than modding riff sticks .
Yo this is the first video I've ever seen of yours. I was already loving it and then you started blasting my favourite Spiritbox (the version with Ryo Kinoshita though) song on this pink Harley Benton 🤣 earned a sub! Great video
2:14 idk where you get these riffs from but with the sound of the guitar and whatever effects you put on top, holy shit thats literally the new sound.. after you put the song out and it goes insane.... dont forget about me,
Really cool video thanks for sharing your take on modding! I was a bit surprised to not see any series/parallel switching or 2 coil splits on one guitar to be able to split neck vs bridge pickup independently of each other, perhaps this comment will inspire you to try one of the two! Cheers and best of luck modding!
Had the cutest pink guitar out and a chill background track then…. 2:03 you just start shredding Lol just got this channel recomended and didnt expect that at all 😂😂😂
Blender is a really great mod. The new positions are awesome, having all on at once is as awesome at it sounds and it makes you able to get a nice tele sound by not having to run the middle
I've had this Behringer Strat that for like 12 years or so. A chepa beginner's piece but I'm so attached to It that I decides to mod It. After 10 years I bought a second guitar (a homemade frankenstrat) and decided to give a second life to muy old Strat. Refinished It to a mate black and cleaned the worned up maple neck, so It looked kind of cool. The pickups were horrible and sounded nothing like a Strat. Thought that anything would sound say better than the og pickups so O bought a chepa set of 2 humbuckers and 2 humbuckers sized p90s. Couldn't find a HSH pickguard that could fit the body shape so I tried cutting the og pickguard. It didn't go well and the pickups couldn't fit the cavity. I cut an Ibanez pickguard that I previuosly bought since It could fit the HSH configuration on the pool rout the guitar had. Kept the og mid pickup since It had the Best tone out of the 3. Did the wiring and It turned out really good (pos 4 ended up out of phase). I still have a lot of stuff to do like change the hardware to gold, fix the wiring, get new electronics and fit the pickguard properly (drillimg screw goles on their respective position), but I dont have any of my guitarra with me at the moment so I'll have to wait some time. I'm honestly excited.
Hey so my first ever mod was sand the nitro finish of my brand new gibson sg 61, never done anything like it before but a couple hours of stress sanding it plays, feels and looks so good! I would have never thought to do it but I was hating the guitar recently because the neck was so sticky and now I'm happier than ever with it, gotta seymour duncan nazgul on the way and now im looking at potentially doing the G&L PTB wiring on both my gibsons cus its my fav part about my legacy. Killer vid!
I am too old for that stuff, but it sure is fun. I dug what your doing. L just play blues, and sound tone wise a little more like my favorite, Mike Bloomfield. I really like the delay, or whatever it is, gives more demension to the guitar. Tatally cool,sound, I like! Open minds, cause open new sounds to be discovered. Room for all, every style, be curious, it pays off. Thanks, maestro!
all my electric guitars have the imperial emblem from star wars on them , they are from a monopoly set , they are imperial coins in brass ,my jaguar has copper plates for the control plates and I did a black matte paint job on it , I added a bigsby to my epiphone ultra les paul , I always make my guitars into MY guitars , its a personal thing , I've done other mods like 7 way switching on my strat and other stuff as well
Thanks a lot for the video! It's really cool to see firsthand to see what you can do with a guitar when you really set your mind to it! Do you have maybe any tips about how to pick components or where to buy stuff like the hardware or just anything that helps with deciding what and where to get materials to mod them with? I've been thinking about starting to tinker with a cheap strat knockoff that got handed down to me but sometimes the amount of stuff out there feels a bit overwhelming 😣thanks a lot for your time!
Assumed you meant that you were in that Alternate Drop E Loathe-specifc tuning for that last guitar and then when I heard you play the Heavy Is the Head That Falls with the Weight of a Thousand Thoughts riff I instantly smiled knowing I assumed correctly hahahaha
Bro this is crazy timing. Yesterday I found an MIJ Fender Strat at a Pawn Shop and I’m so conflicted to buy it so I can modify it. It’s got OG specs and boiii….
Please tell me what you are using behind your nut to dampen the resonance on your strats. I've been looking for an aesthetic solution and your looks great!
really good video, I recently got an eg and i want to mod it in the future but i also want to know about the risks, music equipment, where i live, is really expensive and i dont want to jeopardize my guitar. Should i try modding or pay someone else to do it?
yours are sort of mild compared to my build.and no... I can't just buy it the way I want it.. if from the Fender Custom Shop might cost more than 10 times the cost of just under $500 i did it for including Starting with a cheap Starcaster Strat I got used for $100 at my local Music-Go-Round and then beginning by stripping then rebuildint it with many new parts from Amazon ans paint and other things i needed for the build elsewhere. and modifying it to the extreme. starting with the custom paintjob on the body and headstock in a stars and planets space theme. then adding a custom hand made extended brushed stainless steel pick guard loaded with 3 quad rail/soil humbuckers wired Like a 50's Les Paul with 3 500K audio taper P/P vol. pots and 3 500K audio taper tone pots with the bridge tone pot , .047 orange drop tone caps, also a P/P pot in the bridge tone to activate the bridge and neck pickups together regardless of other controls. Other upgrades include a full size solid brass bridge block, roller saddles. then up to the titanium nut , roller string tree and locking tuners. chrome knobs on the pots and a chrome switch tip on the fender 5-way blade selector switch and a kill button just for fun. I designed the control circuit for both coil splits and to be able to have any or all pickups available at any time. and yes it all works just fine as designed. soldering all those connections in the extended control cavity was an adventure. I have a beautiful and very cool looking guitar that feels good in the hand plays and sounds out of this world. I call it the "Stellarcaster" in keeping with it's beginnings as a Starcaster-Strat and going as far out as it demands. in keeping with the theme of the paint and total build. next is a new home for the Tele bridge pickup i won from Dylan of Dylan Talks Tone. It's new home will be a classic design and wired Esquire... I do mean classic as in original version with a Pine body and the rest of it's original style parts. I haven't decided on color yet, but just to be different the headstock will be painted to match the body. jus to be different I floated the bridge and tuned the 9-46 strings to E-Flat standard like any good Strat should be.. the tonal variations are too many to count and add that to al I can get out of my tiny Blackstar ID Core stereo 40 amp with all its built in effects as well.. Can you imagine just how many that may be in all. Wanna Play???
Yeah there wasn't any real variation there. The only thing that stood out was the sustaniac, cause, well, it was a single on its own and it kicked the distortion back.
"so I modded this strat".... ***proceeds playing metal breakdown also YOU NEED TO START A PICKUP COMPANY THOSE SOUND SICK
So true honestly I'd buy a pair to upgrade a les paul or esp
Awesome sounds. Do a nail test on them, and run your nail through the srings while palm mutting to hear the pickups harmonics. Good sounds❤
Bro made his own pickup, and it sounds amazing.
DIY Pickup has no business sounding THAT good.
Why it is literally thin wire wrapped around a plastic bobbin or bobbins with a magnet. You can buy everything you need to start winding pickups for a few hundred bucks, a couple months of research and buy good quality parts that your research determined would sound like you want it too and voila. I have done it myself.
There goes my motivation to practice this week
I don't blame you about modding guitars and making them more "personal". I'm currently doing the same with my 4 string bass, an 800€ 2008 Warwick Streamer Bolt-On.
I've replaced the hardware with golden one, and the tuners with gotoh res o' lites to have a lighter headstock.
But the best part is that I've routed the bridge pickup cavity for a musicman humbucker.
This bass was originally delivered with a PJ configuration, vut I've modded it in order to have a "P+MM" configuration with a coil split for the humbucker along with active EQ and parametric mids
The main philosophy behind this project was: why should I get more basses to get specific sounds, when i can rule them all with a single one? By doing so my bass can be a P bass, a PJ bass, and a Musicman Bass. I have 4 different sounds in one bass guitar
This is exactly the mod I'm looking to do on my basses. Hope it'll turn out well enough!
babe, wake up! rayn dropped a new video!
Floyd Rose must have been a stony guy, some of your sounds are not earthly.
I’m glad to know someone else is as passionate about modding harley benton’s as i am, i got a pink fusion T and i swapped the humbucker in the neck with a P90 and now it sounds amazing and super expressive
i have a schecter reaper with a sustainiac and just like yours it started giving me issues and no guitar tech i brought it to in my town could pin the problem. so earlier this year i decided to take the plunge into guitar modding and began with my reaper. i removed the sustainiac and all its parts and left the passive bridge pickup in there. i also soldered in new pots, and a new output jack as well. it was some good practice and eventually i tackled a set of fishman moderns for my esp ec-1000 and it left me with an itch to keep modding my guitars. i wasn't to stoked on leaving my reaper as a 1 pickup guitar so i bought a set of tim henson signatures and just finished putting them in yesterday. it was my first time wiring in a 5 way switch as well. i also used the existing empty routes in the guitar to put a mini switch in for the voice 2 on the pickups instead of a push pull knob, which i don't like either. its been a lot of fun and fulfilling learning to do all this myself. i might try putting a kill switch in my reaper since i still have 1 empty hole left from the sustainiac system. i dont know that i'd get much use of it but should be a fun little project.
nice collection btw, i've been looking at one of those schecter hellraiser hybrids for years now as well. that finish is just awesome.
Did you ever figure out what the issue was with the sustainiac
Wow! Really cool mods dude. You should definitely make a video on how you make your pickups.
that holy roller riff at the start was beautifully done
22:08 I love LOATHE!
I tinker with everything I purchase. From automobiles, to guitars, and even wristwatches. There's something magical about making them your own.
It’s SOO fun . I dont do dumb mods but I can almost always find something to improve upon even on high end instruments. The ONLY guitar I have that I couldn’t find something to improve upon is a 2008 PRS CU24 10 top . It’s pretty much perfect. I also don’t make permanent mods on high end stuff .. just mods I can reverse for resale if I so choose . I love modding stuff in general . I’m an American , so I also love modding my pew sticks . That’s an entirely different rabbit hole but just as fun , if not more , than modding riff sticks .
I’m glad RUclips recommended me this video. I’ve never seen your videos but love your guitar taste, modding style and playing style! I’m subbed!
12:23 Gotta be the coolest thing I've ever heard
I can’t find the song😫
@@spicygrape1987me neither 🥲
It’s not exactly the same but Darcy by wabie has a similar intro
Yo this is the first video I've ever seen of yours. I was already loving it and then you started blasting my favourite Spiritbox (the version with Ryo Kinoshita though) song on this pink Harley Benton 🤣 earned a sub! Great video
your pickups in the schecter sun valley have perhaps one of the best coils splits i've heard they sound sooo good split
EVERYONE should get into modding
fender Vintera 50s strat sounds absolutely wonderful!!!!
2:14 idk where you get these riffs from but with the sound of the guitar and whatever effects you put on top, holy shit thats literally the new sound.. after you put the song out and it goes insane.... dont forget about me,
that's Holy Roller by Spiritbox
BOCCHI SHIRT, BLACK AND GOLD LES PAUL IN THE BACKGROUND, SUBSCRIBED RAAAHH
Really cool video thanks for sharing your take on modding! I was a bit surprised to not see any series/parallel switching or 2 coil splits on one guitar to be able to split neck vs bridge pickup independently of each other, perhaps this comment will inspire you to try one of the two! Cheers and best of luck modding!
i already love this channel YOUR CHOICE OF BACKGROUND MUSICC, SHAROUUUUU
i know youve received this comment before but ur vids have that "mechkeyboard modding community" vibe and im here for it
Never seen your channel before and I was NOT expecting that to come out of this guitar! 2:11 😂Good work bro, the pink Harley Benton looks SICK!
I was so ready for some strat tones hahaha
W shirt homie
Had the cutest pink guitar out and a chill background track then…. 2:03 you just start shredding
Lol just got this channel recomended and didnt expect that at all 😂😂😂
That harley benton guitar looks amazing
9:48 bad apple goes hard
Dude I just fell in love with your HSS Harley Benton. Incredible job!
Heres my ideas for a strat, push push for out of phase, and a BLENDER for the bridge/neck, so you could nave all the pickups.
with a 4 way, those are cool.
Blender is a really great mod. The new positions are awesome, having all on at once is as awesome at it sounds and it makes you able to get a nice tele sound by not having to run the middle
Holy crap ur tone is so good
Absolute inspiration! Awesome video Ryan!
I've had this Behringer Strat that for like 12 years or so. A chepa beginner's piece but I'm so attached to It that I decides to mod It.
After 10 years I bought a second guitar (a homemade frankenstrat) and decided to give a second life to muy old Strat.
Refinished It to a mate black and cleaned the worned up maple neck, so It looked kind of cool. The pickups were horrible and sounded nothing like a Strat. Thought that anything would sound say better than the og pickups so O bought a chepa set of 2 humbuckers and 2 humbuckers sized p90s.
Couldn't find a HSH pickguard that could fit the body shape so I tried cutting the og pickguard. It didn't go well and the pickups couldn't fit the cavity. I cut an Ibanez pickguard that I previuosly bought since It could fit the HSH configuration on the pool rout the guitar had.
Kept the og mid pickup since It had the Best tone out of the 3. Did the wiring and It turned out really good (pos 4 ended up out of phase).
I still have a lot of stuff to do like change the hardware to gold, fix the wiring, get new electronics and fit the pickguard properly (drillimg screw goles on their respective position), but I dont have any of my guitarra with me at the moment so I'll have to wait some time.
I'm honestly excited.
Hey so my first ever mod was sand the nitro finish of my brand new gibson sg 61, never done anything like it before but a couple hours of stress sanding it plays, feels and looks so good! I would have never thought to do it but I was hating the guitar recently because the neck was so sticky and now I'm happier than ever with it, gotta seymour duncan nazgul on the way and now im looking at potentially doing the G&L PTB wiring on both my gibsons cus its my fav part about my legacy. Killer vid!
Gnarly pickups dude!
Great video. Honestly the best thing as a hobby now for me is just straight up Partscaster builds. I love making nothing into something.
incredible guitars & playing, wow!
Instead of adding a toggle switch to the Stratocaster, add the Fender S-1 switching system, its jus the volume knob and keeps the Strats vintage look
I am too old for that stuff, but it sure is fun. I dug what your doing. L just play blues, and sound tone wise a little more like my favorite, Mike Bloomfield. I really like the delay, or whatever it is, gives more demension to the guitar.
Tatally cool,sound, I like! Open minds, cause open new sounds to be discovered. Room for all, every style, be curious, it pays off. Thanks, maestro!
Awesome video man. Currently I don't have time or money for modding, but I would LOVE to mod some guitars for myself.
Bro I'd love to pickup some of those pickups one day. That tone is NASTYYYYY.
all my electric guitars have the imperial emblem from star wars on them , they are from a monopoly set , they are imperial coins in brass ,my jaguar has copper plates for the control plates and I did a black matte paint job on it , I added a bigsby to my epiphone ultra les paul , I always make my guitars into MY guitars , its a personal thing , I've done other mods like 7 way switching on my strat and other stuff as well
That bocchi shirt is badass
Grandpa wake up Rayne dropped a banger
your vids are so underated man
Found you through this, subscribed, keep at it.
Dude that pink Benton sounds insane, you make it sound like a freaking chainsaw
Awesome video! Tuning down to E1 on a standard scale guitar is absolutely nuts. Sounds great though!
That humbucker CHUGS
that Sun Valley sounds killer
Kids these days......are monsters of the fretboard!
I have 7 Ibanez RGs and a JEM Jr, all modded to some extent, pickups, hardware, etc.
now is the time to make my own pickups too I have all the equipments but still hesitating to make one hahaha thanks for this video
all tones are really sick dude, wtf
great vid! when u demo sounds pls play them back to back because if you talk before i forget what the last one sounded like!
Thanks a lot for the video! It's really cool to see firsthand to see what you can do with a guitar when you really set your mind to it! Do you have maybe any tips about how to pick components or where to buy stuff like the hardware or just anything that helps with deciding what and where to get materials to mod them with? I've been thinking about starting to tinker with a cheap strat knockoff that got handed down to me but sometimes the amount of stuff out there feels a bit overwhelming 😣thanks a lot for your time!
yo, ur own pickups go hard and look nice. I would buy it.
i must admit. You suprise me with this Harley Benton. I was expexting some blues and then i hear spirtbox :D
that whistle sound with the harley reminds me of that one smashing pumpkins song
your shirt made me instantly subscribe
Assumed you meant that you were in that Alternate Drop E Loathe-specifc tuning for that last guitar and then when I heard you play the Heavy Is the Head That Falls with the Weight of a Thousand Thoughts riff I instantly smiled knowing I assumed correctly hahahaha
Bro this is crazy timing. Yesterday I found an MIJ Fender Strat at a Pawn Shop and I’m so conflicted to buy it so I can modify it. It’s got OG specs and boiii….
Go get that thing
damn shes a keeper
please drop that pickup😭 sounds so good
whats the song at 12:30
sounds like Darcy by Wabie
Please tell me what you are using behind your nut to dampen the resonance on your strats.
I've been looking for an aesthetic solution and your looks great!
It’s just a thin strip of black tape!
@@RaynP Damn that surprised me. But does it do the work as good as a fret wrap?
Just found out about your channel, it’s sick! Keep it up. Could you make a video on how to make your own pickups?
i really want to mod my old knockoff stratocaster just for fun with some humbuckers but im just too nervous about the wiring and stuff lol
I had no idea the sustainiac works as a pickup as well as a feedback machine tbh. Thats the main reason I never attempted to install one
Wow!
That middle/bridge combo on your HB sounds so good man. What amp you running it through?
Thanks! I'm using a capture of my Marshall DSL20 on the high gain channel on my Quad Cortex
A step by step guide on how u did the Harley Benton?
I like what you did.....so how would you mode Bryan May's special red 😮 that guitar 🎸 was way ahead of it's time
really good video, I recently got an eg and i want to mod it in the future but i also want to know about the risks, music equipment, where i live, is really expensive and i dont want to jeopardize my guitar. Should i try modding or pay someone else to do it?
Really impressive mod job but lower tunings rob it of punch! Make A440 great again!
I wish you were my guitar tech damn!
idk if you are modding viewer sent guitars but id love that
Is that some kind of string tree system behind the Nut on your Harley Benton Strat Copy ?
im suprised you havnt tried DIY kits yet from amazon, i love modding those
yours are sort of mild compared to my build.and no... I can't just buy it the way I want it.. if from the Fender Custom Shop might cost more than 10 times the cost of just under $500 i did it for including Starting with a cheap Starcaster Strat I got used for $100 at my local Music-Go-Round and then beginning by stripping then rebuildint it with many new parts from Amazon ans paint and other things i needed for the build elsewhere. and modifying it to the extreme. starting with the custom paintjob on the body and headstock in a stars and planets space theme. then adding a custom hand made extended brushed stainless steel pick guard loaded with 3 quad rail/soil humbuckers wired Like a 50's Les Paul with 3 500K audio taper P/P vol. pots and 3 500K audio taper tone pots with the bridge tone pot , .047 orange drop tone caps, also a P/P pot in the bridge tone to activate the bridge and neck pickups together regardless of other controls. Other upgrades include a full size solid brass bridge block, roller saddles. then up to the titanium nut , roller string tree and locking tuners. chrome knobs on the pots and a chrome switch tip on the fender 5-way blade selector switch and a kill button just for fun. I designed the control circuit for both coil splits and to be able to have any or all pickups available at any time. and yes it all works just fine as designed. soldering all those connections in the extended control cavity was an adventure. I have a beautiful and very cool looking guitar that feels good in the hand plays and sounds out of this world. I call it the "Stellarcaster" in keeping with it's beginnings as a Starcaster-Strat and going as far out as it demands. in keeping with the theme of the paint and total build. next is a new home for the Tele bridge pickup i won from Dylan of Dylan Talks Tone. It's new home will be a classic design and wired Esquire... I do mean classic as in original version with a Pine body and the rest of it's original style parts. I haven't decided on color yet, but just to be different the headstock will be painted to match the body. jus to be different I floated the bridge and tuned the 9-46 strings to E-Flat standard like any good Strat should be.. the tonal variations are too many to count and add that to al I can get out of my tiny Blackstar ID Core stereo 40 amp with all its built in effects as well.. Can you imagine just how many that may be in all. Wanna Play???
what amp are you playing the vintera strat through? sounds super delish!!
Great video! But the playing is speed up isn’t it? I think you can’t really hear the true sound of the pickups
@@lucaskenzomatsumototani3379 thanks! None of it is sped up at all - not sure why it’d seem that why
9:47 i thought you were starting to play bad apple here lmao
the humbucker sound great in the LP copy- do you sell those pickups with the push/push mod wiring?
love your mods. big fan of modding guitars myself however the Harley Benton mod is a bit our of control costwise
thats some sick riffages
I got back in to playing guitar with a 65 dollar Glarry. That thing is totally not worth 65 bucks any more...
I was like this is nice, but it could sound SO much better.
Should do a microtonal guitar like king gizzard
How do you learn to make such unique wirings?, I just copy from google but I want learn how to wire by myself like you
play mayonnaise on that sustaniac that’s the perfect guitar for it
i couldnt really hear the difference as all your playing had distortion on , maybe try some clean sounds
Yeah there wasn't any real variation there. The only thing that stood out was the sustaniac, cause, well, it was a single on its own and it kicked the distortion back.
only if you arent buying a gibson, or if you do buy a gibson and decide to mod it dont expect to get as much money for it if you decide to sell it.
been wanting to see a review after seeing the tiktok collection video
Holy god what pickups are in that Vintera Strat?!?!!
spiritbox, nice
drop pedal?
What about modding signature models? Does that make sense to do?
9:47 sounds like Bad apple
where'd you get the pickguard for the harley benton?
do we have a vid on explaining modding/wiring?