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These documents will help you to assemble, install and use our family of High-Performance patented Pickup Switch UpgradeTM products.
If you have purchased either of the following Pickup Switch UpgradeTM products, download the specified documents:
- KIT Pickup Switch UpgradeTM products: download documents #1, #2 and #3. Also see the applicable documents #A, #B and #C.
- Assembled and Tested Pickup Switch UpgradeTM products: download document #3. Also see the applicable documents #A, #B and #C.
- STRATOCASTER Upgrades: download document #5. Also see the applicable documents #a, #b, #c and #d.
- TELECASTER Upgrades: download document #6. Also see the applicable documents #a, #b, #c and #d.
- JAZZ BASS Upgrades: download document #7. Also see the applicable documents #a, #b, #c and #d.
Product Install Ease Legend: 1-Easy, 2-(midway), 3-Intermediate, 4-(midway), 5-Difficult
- Pickup Switch Upgrade Selection Chart. Which products you can use for your pickup configuration.
Upgrade Instructions:
- Assembly Instructions for KIT Switch products [Assembly Ease: 1]
- Testing Instructions for KIT Switch products [Testing Ease: 2-3]
- Installation Instructions for Assembled and Tested Switch products [Install Ease: 2-3]
a. T3PJ-Switch Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 2-3]
- M1-PCB Configuration and Use Instructions
- a. Stratocaster Upgrade Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1-2]
b. Stratocaster Upgrade T3Plus-Switch Use Summary
c. Stratocaster Upgrade T4-Switch Use Summary
d. Strat-TBGB Upgrade
- a. Telecaster Upgrade Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1-2]
b. Telecaster Upgrade T3Plus-Switch Use Summary
c. Telecaster Upgrade T4-Switch Use Summary
d. Tele-TBGB Upgrade
e. Telecaster Thinline Reissue Instructions
f. 72 Telecaster Thinline Reissue Instructions
g. 72 Telecaster Custom Reissue Instructions
h. 72 Telecaster Deluxe Reissue Instructions
- a. Jazz Bass Upgrade Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1-2]
b. JB-TBGB Upgrade
- P-Bass Upgrade Instructions [Install Ease: 2]
- JMJ Mustang Bass Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 2]
- Mustang Bass PJ Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 2]
- Player Jaguar Bass Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 2]
- Squier Classic Vibe Bass VI Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 3]
- LP4 Upgrade Instructions For Les Paul style instruments [Install Ease: 3-4]
- a. S-Board Bare Bones Assembly Instructions [Install Ease: 2-3]
b. S-Board Bare Bones Testing Instructions
c. S-Board Bare Bones Install Instructions
- Kill Switch Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1]
- BMG Special Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1]
- Middle Pickup Switch M1 Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1]
- Treble Bleed, Grease Bucket, Pot Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1]
- Enhanced Push-Pull Pot Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1]
- Mosrite Installation Instructions (discontinued) [Install Ease: 1-2]
- Stratocaster TBGB Upgrade Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1]
- Telecaster TBGB Upgrade Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1]
- Jazz Bass TBGB Upgrade Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1]
- a. T2 Rickenbacker Upgrade Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1]
b. T3 Rickenbacker Upgrade Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1]
c. S3 Rickenbacker Upgrade Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1]
- 2020 Paranormal Cyclone Upgrade Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1]
- Contemporary Stratocaster Special Upgrade Installation Instructions [Install Ease: 1-2]
- a. Noventa Jazzmaster Upgrade Instructions [Install Ease: 2-3]
b. Noventa Jazzmaster Pickguard Template (PDF)
Additional Application Support Documents:
Pickup Tone "Mapping" Worksheets:
- T2-Switch: Gives You 6 Pickup Tones
- T2Plus-Switch: Gives You 6 Pickup Tones
- T3-Switch: Gives You 13 Pickup Tones
- T3PJ-Switch: Gives You 21 Pickup Tones (for instruments with PJ pickup configuration)
- T3Plus-Switch: Gives You 35 Pickup Tones (also for S3-Switch)
- T4-Switch: Gives You 68 Pickup Tones (also see this mapping sheet)
- T4Plus-Switch: Gives You 102 Pickup Tones (for HH, HSS instrument + our VT-3 Volume-Tone Control) (also see this mapping sheet)
- T4Plus-Switch: Gives You 212 Pickup Tones (for HSH instrument + our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control + ASY-M1 switch)
- T4Plus-Switch: Gives You 272 Pickup Tones (for HSH instrument + our VT-3 Volume-Tone Control + ASY-M1 switch)
- T4Plus-Switch: Gives You 276 Pickup Tones (for HSH instrument + our VT-4 Volume-Tone Control + ASY-M1 switch)
Special T4-Switch Wiring Variation Details:
- To Get 68 Pickup Tones (for HH, HSS or HSH Instruments simple example)
- 1: To Get 102 Pickup Tones (for HH, HSS Instruments + our VT-3 Volume-Tone Control), requires T4Plus-Switch
2: To Get 102 Pickup Tones (for HH, HSS Instruments + our VT-3 Volume-Tone Control), requires two T2Plus-Switch
These variations gives you QuadraBuckerTM (all four pickup coils in series) Pickup Tones.
- To Get 212 Pickup Tones (for HSH Instruments + our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control + ASY-M1 switch)
- To Get 272 Pickup Tones (for HSH Instruments + our VT-3 Volume-Tone Control + ASY-M1 switch)
- To Get 276 Pickup Tones (for HSH Instruments + our VT-4 Volume-Tone Control + ASY-M1 switch)
This variation gives you PentaBuckerTM (all five pickup coils in series) Pickup Tones that are so fat, they're... OBESE!
Volume-Tone Wiring Details:
- Typical Wiring for our VT-1 and VT-2 Volume-Tone Control products
Humbucker Pickup Wiring Details:
- 1: AweSome Asymmetric 4-wire Humbucker Wire Color Codes
2: Pickup Wire Color Codes
- 1: How to Change a 4-wire Humbucker into a 2-wire version
2: Humbucker coil split circuit using a push-pull pot
- Convert Wide Range Humbucker Pickup to 4-Wire Version [Install Ease: 1]
- Convert Twin Head Humbucker Pickup to 4-Wire Version [Install Ease: 1]
Additional Documents:
- Connecting 26 Gauge Wire to 22 Gauge Wire Using UY2 Connectors
- Temporarily using our T3-Switch with two pickup coils
- Temporarily using our T4-Switch with three pickup coils
- How To "Daisy-Chain" Multiple T2-Switch Products for Added Flexibility and More Pickup Tones
- Daisy-Chaining three T2-Switches Mapping Worksheet gives you 414 pickup tones