I love having secret Mods inside my guitars, I hope you give this one a crack! So in summary: the neck pickup undergoes a phase reversal and subsequently passes through a series capacitor, causing another phase shift that essentially puts the neck 90 degrees out of phase. Quite cool! :)

@benlively77

7 ай бұрын

I’m going to do it today actually! I have another 14-sound tele wiring mod that this one here will go hand in hand with. Had already taken today off to do so. Perfect timing; perfect mod. 👍 Many thanks, Brother!

I really like this, it sounds good. .... It would be cool if you could do a separate video where you actually do this mod from start to finish etc.

I did similiar Quack mod to strat bridge humbucker. It is ridiculously earpearcing with Marshall.

Your a clever fella, thats a bloody awesome mod for a tele :)

brilliant!!!!!! i love that sound

Great mod. Thank you.

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

6 ай бұрын

Glad you like it

I’m impressed!! This is awesome

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

7 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊

I would just go for a real deal mod, putting a single coil in the middle position and a five way switch. Most non reissue fender teles bodies are already routed for a middle pickup. And there are lots of cheap tele pickguards for three single coils

One of the coolest channel on KZread. What a gem! Subbed! I hope you’d make a video on the Evertune bridge and demystify the tone lost they are saying with frequency response graph 😅

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

7 ай бұрын

Thanks! You know I built a guitar with an Evertune for myself and ended up selling it. There was not really a tone loss but a string energy loss which made it feel sluggish to play, that would have been a cool video, might have to build another :)

Please do a step-by-step video on this mod. Chur!

Hen wiring two capacitors together to increase their value, wire them in parallel. This effectively increases the size of the capacitor. If you wire them in series they will reduce the capacitance.

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

7 ай бұрын

That's correct, yes I wired those two 10n caps in Parallel, cheers!

Great video's! Keep making them :-)

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Love your nick peckup sound!

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

7 ай бұрын

haha :) The classic New Zealand accent!

@ErickvdK

7 ай бұрын

@@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar Haha! Cheers mate, happy new year from Holland!😊

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

6 ай бұрын

Late reply but you too :)

Really cool mod! I wonder if having a "clean-clean" demo would display it better than the modicum of "hair"/sizzle that was used in this vid? (What I've noticed across many KZread videos: as distortion goes up, distiction goes down!) FWIW! YMMV...

Thumbs up and sub'd, great stuff!!

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for that, I really appreciate it!

Great Job Man 🎸

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

8 күн бұрын

Thanks a lot!

This is the so-called "half-out-of-phase" (HOOP) mod that is attributed to the late great Bill Lawrence. I first stumbled onto it in a review of the Fender Jerry Donahue Telecaster close to 30 years ago. The reviewer was struck by how Strat-like one of the selector-switch settings was, even though there were only 2 pickups. I wired up one guitar with it, and got the same striking result, and have included it on several other guitars since then. The principle is simple. When two sound sources are out of phase with each other, cancellations result where there are identical-but-opposite signals. Indeed, that is precisely how humbucker pickups "cancel" hum, The more similar the two sources are to each other, the more cancellation is produced. Anyone who has installed a phase-reverse switch is disappointed by how thin and reedy the result is, not to mention the substantial volume drop. Inserting that extra cap for the neck pickup (and two 20nf *in series* , not parallel, gets you 10nf ), trims the bass off a bit, reducing the similarity of neck and bridge. There are still some cancellations produced, but not enough to cut the final volume, or produce a thin tone. Some commercial guitars have been factory-wired to have neck and bridge out of phase with each other. But such guitars have dual volume controls. Users will find that slightly reducing the volume of *either* neck or bridge will bring the overall volume back up, supporting the notion that volume drop results from the two pickups having not only similar frequency content, but the same volume. I have implemented the HOOP mod on a Vantage guitar that has a pair of Schaller double-cream humbuckers, and another '60s Guyatone with ceramic pickups, and it works equally well on them. Of course, such pickups will NOT sound like a Strat neck+middle setting. But they do provide another very usable and useful N+B sound. And, as is noted in the video, neck pickup with a bit of bass-cut sounds pretty good on its own, too. If used with any sort of drive pedal, you'll find it yields a somewhat different result from the pedal, simply by cutting the bass a bit. I like to use a 10nf cap, but tastes can vary, so feel free to experiment. Smaller values (e.g., 6n8) will cut more bass.

@markhammer643

3 ай бұрын

A second very useful mod I like to do is a bidirectional tone control; something I got from Craig Anderton's column in Guitar Player, 40 years ago. I use a 1M linear pot to provide equivalent adjustment in either direction from the midpoint. In a perfect world, I'd use a W-taper pot with a centre detente, but since such things don't exist, a 1M linear is the default. The wiper (centre lug) of the pot goes to the input of the volume control, as per usual. One outside lug goes to ground through a standard value cap, like 22nf. The other outside lug goes to ground through a cap about 1/5 to 1/4 the value (e.g., 4700pf). This yields two very different-sounding rolloffs, with minimum treble cut in the piddle position. The second added rolloff has the effect of what I like to describe as "rounding off the edges". All the bite is still there, but none of the brittle qualities. Actually, a perfect complement to use of a 1M volume pot, for those who would like the option OF sounding "brittle". At maximum cut, the smaller cap value provides an interesting change in resonant peak, that is unattainable from traditional tone controls. Finally, the perk is that, if one likes to attempt "pinky wah" (i.e., producing a quasi-wah sound by quickly rotating the tone control), it is now easier to do, because only half the pot rotation is required. Although a centre detente pot *would* permit being able to identify the midpoint by touch alone, realistically, the zone between 3 and 7 on the control results in negligible treble cut, so one can simply roll it back a bit from either extreme and sound bright.

Does this still work with a 4 way series/parallel switch installed?

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

7 ай бұрын

Hey Matt, yes it will do, the series selection would be interesting!

@db680

6 ай бұрын

Did you try it out? I have the same set up on my thinline Tele with P90s so interested how the 4th position (in series) sounds

This mod is sick! I haven't found a strat I like and love my thinline tele so I'm probably gonna incorporate it in. It has a 4 way switch to put the single coils in series and I was wondering if I could replace it with a 5 way switch for this mod. Would that work?

@deadcassettemusic_

7 ай бұрын

Actually I'm just gonna use a push pull pot for more versatility. Again, awesome vid!

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for checking it out, happy modding :)

Are you just adding a series capacitor to the neck pickup?

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

7 ай бұрын

Correct along with flipping the phase of the neck pickup, cheers!

Waylon, so you're adding a 0.01uf capacitor in "parallel" with the neck pickup? adding a capacitor in parallel shifts the frequency to the left but also shifts the phase?

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

7 ай бұрын

Hi, Thanks for the question, so the neck pickup is reversed in phase and then it runs through a series capacitor which shifts the phase again essentially putting the neck 90 degrees out of phase, pretty cool :)

@waynegram8907

7 ай бұрын

@@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar Oh ok I get it Thanks,. so you Flipped and reversed the Pickup Hot wire and Ground Wire BEFORE the series capacitor. So technically the Neck Pickup is +Positive Grounded/hot wire is grounded while the Neck Pickups Cold wire is running through a series capacitor. The Series Capacitors are often called Strangle, because its choking off the low frequencies and passing only the high frequencies, also shifting slightly the phase ANGLE. Phase shift and Phase Angle are different when referenced against another pickup. When you just used only the Neck Pickup with the strangle series capacitor its changing the Phase ANGLE, not phase shift. Phase SHIFT is against another pickup when two pickups are both at the same time.

TLDR: a HooP mod. But why 20nf? This info would've been more helpful. More scientific sound samples too.

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

7 ай бұрын

Hi Jake, That's correct Half Out Of Phase mod, good catch :) As I mentioned I found 20nf sounded good with the particular pickups I used. For me... the best way to test is to install and listen then repeat, nothing beats real-world experience!

*Video starts at **2:10**.* Skip the talk. Play from 0:00 afterward. Also, he says "nick pick-up." He means neck pick-up. Kiwis can not speak properly so do not fault him. Keep in mind, Kiwis write with ink "pins". 🤣

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

7 ай бұрын

Don't skip the talking, how else are you going to hear that beautiful New Zealand accent 🤣🤣

@TheRealcdawg22

7 ай бұрын

​@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar I definitely wouldn't mind hearing that beautiful accent if I got to live in such a beautiful country!

@johnp.johnson1541

7 ай бұрын

@@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar HA HA. What is the entire population doing to vowels? Are 5 too many for you? 😆 What I meant Way is to listen first then go back and discover how. You should make all of your vids that way going forward. Guitarists are musicians and we're attuned to sound after all. Hearing the mods gets me excited to learn how its done. Hearing the details first does not thrill as much. At least put a minute of highlight sounds before the talk

@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar

7 ай бұрын

That is actually a pretty good point John, cheers!@@johnp.johnson1541

@charlesjoynes9497

7 ай бұрын

Some Americans also write w/ "pins". Only dif is we don't have cool accents. Bummer.... (Oh, and we're not allowed to have pet wallabys either....)