Wire your own STEREO Guitar | Stereo Switch Mod
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- In this video, I show how you can install stereo wiring into most passive electric guitars and basses. I call this specific implementation the “Stereo Switch Mod”. This kind of mod allows you output each pickup separately, similar to the “Rick-O-Sound” feature on Rickenbackers.
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DIAGRAMS:
Example 1: bit.ly/3VDw9PC
Example 2: bit.ly/3zq5XRl
Example 3: bit.ly/4cGAjxk
Example 4: bit.ly/4cKmygP
PARTS:
Push-Pull Pot (Metric): bit.ly/3U4lyxV
Push-Pull Pot (Imperial): bit.ly/3W0I6Am
Stereo TRS Jack: bit.ly/3IC19sP
Stereo Breakout Cable: a.co/d/09LoyWW5
RESEARCH:
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00:00 Intro
00:35 History
01:36 Overview & Demo
03:33 What You’ll Need
04:28 Example 1 - 1 Vol & 1 Tone
06:00 Signal Flow Demo
07:12 Example 2 - Les Paul
07:58 Example 3 - J-Bass
08:47 Example 4 - Stratocaster
09:37 Outro 
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I don't often comment on videos, but this one was so clear and concise, from the clearness of the tilted pickup demo to the easy to understand signal path descriptions. Your views are criminally low, I hope your channel grows exponentially because you deserve it.
This INCREDIBLE video came out 2 days ago and has 374 views? Man you deserve WAY, WAY more
Maaaaan, you are the first one to make entertaining and efficient video for understanding the signal flow of the pickups, thank you
Hell yeah, great to see this, and I'm glad you included the tilted pickups.
Appreciate the amount of work it took to script, animate, and recording! Bravo sir!
Unbelievably well made, easy to understand, and intuitive video, and is easily the best explanation of any guitar wiring I've seen. Can't wait for the Telecaster video!
How in the living hell did you know right now that I was just looking for a rickosound solution for my Harley Benton Rick copy?? What kind of sorcery is this, subscribed.
The production of this video is so good. Especially the wiring diagrams. Keep up the amazing work!
In addition to tilting pickups, it's possible to limit which strings a humbucker respond to by placing a piece of soft steel between the two pole pieces under any string which should not be picked up. It won't completely kill the signal from those strings, but will reduce it to the point that it would only be audible when no other strings were playing. On my own guitar, tune G-D-d-f-g#-b, I use the bottom two strings to play the root notes of chords while the top four strings play the rest, and I use soft steel mutes under the treble strings of the bridge humbucker. One of the great things about this "mod" is that the magnets will hold the steel bars in place firmly and reliably, but they can easily be removed if/when desired.
Subd , glad to find an interesting Organic channel … it’s getting harder to find stuff like this on RUclips . I’m old enough to remember when RUclips was user generated and actually fun . Keep up good work
I mentioned on a previous comment that on a jazz bass, a really simple way I was able to achieve stereo was by connecting what were the ground lugs of both volume pots to the ring of the jack. Rolling back either volume with a stereo cable plugged in sends the respective pickup left or right, depending on which you choose. As a benefit, a mono cable works like the mod isn't there, and you can select which pickup is primary and secondary. The downside is you can't kill the volume completely, and you'll get some signal bleed from the other pickup. The switch method is probably better, and I'll use it on a custom bass I'm going to build in the future. Thanks for the vid, it really helped me understand the other ways you can wire stereo :)
Thanks for the comment! I was actually considering including it in this video, but decided to push it back for a future video since I hadn't tested it on my end yet. It's definitely a simpler/easier solution for Jazz Basses. Thanks for bringing up potential downsides, I'll keep an ear out for those!
This was VERY professionally done, I can't wait to see what other videos you put out.
Great vid. I will try this out. Thanks.
Very, very well done! Sub earned, and I hope the channel takes off. Strong content.
I really enjoyed this because it was very informative. Im currently working on a bass and guitar build and this video showed me a better and more cost-effective way of reaching my goal. I would love to see a 3 humbucker or quad coil stereo wire up. Bass pickups have such a varying amount of coil arrangements beyond single coil and humbucker and could yield interesting results.
I've been doing seperate outputs for bridge and neck pickups for a long time. It has a ton of advantages. I also tried balanced wiring, which noticeably reduces unsavory noise, but has the problem of not really being able to plug into any amp without mod'ing the amp significantly in order to take advantage.
Anyway, back to stereo/two outputs... you can use an A/B or ABY switch as a pickup selector. This is cool if you want to keep your hands in the playing position. It's also great for recording, especially lead parts, since you can record both pickups isolated, then decide which take (or how to mix both) to use later. I had never thought about tilting one pickup toward bass and the other toward treble- that is a brilliant idea.
I also wanted to mention that Parker guitars were stereo equipped as well, with one output for both magnetic pickups and the other dedicated to piezo. I'm sure other piezo-equipped guitars followed suit.
Love the video!
Great video Jony. I wish there were more stereo amps out there.
This video is impressive 👍🏻 Great job.
I own a Rickenbacker 4001 bass. Having stereo output is useful generally for recording. In live conditions sound people frown for an extra hassle (this is not a case if you are famous touring musician or a in a resident band of a venue). For a very long time I have been considering adding a stereo output to one or two of my guitars. So, it would be possible to have two pure signals from each pickup without any phase cancellation. Thank you for all the charts and the info, very valuable content
Thanks for sharing your insight! I agree, this mod is way better suited for recording than performing live.
I learned something new today. Nice
super like for all the animations
this looks really fucking cool
Awesome.
Nice video. Is there a wiring to send just the EAD string outputs to one channel, and the GBE string outputs to the other?
For that, I’d guess you would need some sort of split pickup. Possibly either a “single coil” that’s actually a couple coils, each wound around half of the pole pieces, or maybe a humbucker with 3 pole pieces removed from the EAD strings on one coil, and 3 removed from the GBE strings on the other coil. You’d want 4-conductor wiring in either case. I’m sure pickups like these exist, but I haven’t come across any specific models that do that yet.
great video, but i have a quick question. i have a peavey t-40 bass that i think would be great to do this mod on, and in the wiring there’s a switch that’s a phase inverter. would it be possible to change that switch to the stereo switch without changing any of the original hardware? thanks
Thanks! I believe that the phase inverter switch is a DPDT switch, so in theory you can convert it into a stereo switch if you do a bunch of rewiring. However, you'd want to be pretty comfortable with your soldering skills since you'd need to re-solder a lot of the contacts on that small switch.
Not really stereo, though, is it? Proper stereo would have the bottom E coming out of the left speaker, the top E out of the right and the rest equally spaced between. Like when you stero-mic a piano. This is just individual outs for the pups. Still interesting, but not stereo, But then a 'tremolo' arm doesn't control tremolo, does it?
Where’s your mods? Yes , a trem arm controls trem . Why are you like this ?
@@juanvaldez5422 Tremolo is the cyclical variation of loudness. Vibrato is the cyclical variation of pitch. Now, tell me I'm wrong, go on, I dare you.
I think it would be amazing to have a real stereo guitar. But this ain't it. At best you could describe it as 'dual mono' with tonal differences L-R.
This is a dumb idea too.
Stereo guitar should be 2 guitarists. Or one guy double tracked and panned
You keep using that word, stereo... I do not think that it means what you think it means. (In my terrible Inego Montoya voice)