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Get all the pickup tones that are "hiding" in your electric guitar or bass. Our passive upgrades mean your performances or recording sessions won't be disrupted by dead batteries or electronics failure.
Our Grand Canyon Wide selection of upgrade products is now the best ever.
With over 120 quality upgrade items, is there something that will interest you?
Our AweSome products will exceed your desire for Quality, Usefulness and Value.
Did you know we now offer two versions of our upgrade products? The Custom version includes a 30-day limited warranty, and the PRO version includes a 1-year limited warranty and our professional treble bleed circuitry.
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Product Install Ease Legend:
1-Easy, 2-Intermediate, 3-Challenging
Each item shows ID#, Price, Description
Telecaster Upgrades
001, $74.99, Telecaster Upgrade — For Standard Telecaster or similar instrument with two pickups. A chrome metal upgrade with our T2-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your upgraded instrument a total of 6 pickup tones. [Install Ease: 1]
002, $75.99, Telecaster Upgrade — For Deluxe Nashville Telecaster, Modern Player Telecaster PLUS or similar instrument with three pickups. A chrome metal upgrade with our T3Plus-Switch, and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your upgraded instrument a total of 35 pickup tones. [Install Ease: 1]
003, $81.99, Telecaster Upgrade — For American Elite Telecaster HSS, Modern Player Telecaster PLUS, HH Telecaster or similar instrument with four pickup coils. A chrome metal upgrade with our T4-Switch and your choice of our VT-2 or VT-3 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your upgraded instrument (depending on your choices and pickups) 68 or 102 pickup tones. [Install Ease: 1]
004, $132.99, Telecaster Thinline Reissue Upgrade — A 3-ply White upgrade with our T2-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your instrument with two single-coil pickups 6 pickup tones. [Install Ease: 1]
005, $137.99, '72 Telecaster Thinline Reissue Upgrade — A 3-ply White upgrade with our T4-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your right-hand instrument 68 pickup tones. [Install Ease: 1]
006, $137.99, '72 Telecaster Custom Reissue Upgrade — A 3-ply Black upgrade with our T3Plus-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your right-hand instrument with one single-coil pickup and one Wide Range Humbucker pickup 35 pickup tones. [Install Ease: 1]
007, $137.99, '72 Telecaster Deluxe Reissue Upgrade — A 3-ply Black upgrade with our T4-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your right-hand instrument 68 pickup tones. [Install Ease: 1]
Stratocaster SSS Upgrades
010, $119.99, Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply White SSS Upgrade with our T3Plus-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument 35 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
011, $119.99, Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply Black SSS Upgrade with our T3Plus-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument 35 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
012, $156.99, Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply White Pearloid SSS Upgrade with our T3Plus-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument 35 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
013, $156.99, Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply Brown Tortoise SSS Upgrade with our T3Plus-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument 35 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
Stratocaster Special / Limited Edition SSS Upgrades NEW
015, $119.99, Eric Johnson Signature Stratocaster Thinline Upgrade — A 3-ply White 8-hole SSS Upgrade with our T3Plus-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your upgraded Stratocaster 35 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version (you supply pickups), [Install Ease: 1]
016, $119.99, 2018 Limited Edition Strat-Tele Hybrid Upgrade — A 3-ply White SSS Upgrade with our T3Plus-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your instrument 35 pickup tones. Available in our Custom version or Pro version (you supply pickups), [Install Ease: 1]
Stratocaster HSS Upgrades
020, $119.99, Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply White HSS Upgrade comes with your choice of our T3Plus-Switch or T4-Switch. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument 35, 68 or 102 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
021, $119.99, Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply Black HSS Upgrade comes with your choice of our T3Plus-Switch or T4-Switch. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument 35, 68 or 102 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
022, $156.99, Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply White Pearloid HSS Upgrade comes with your choice of our T3Plus-Switch or T4-Switch. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument 35, 68 or 102 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
023, $156.99, Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply Brown Tortoise HSS Upgrade comes with your choice of our T3Plus-Switch or T4-Switch. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument 35, 68 or 102 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
Stratocaster HSH Upgrades
030, $119.99, HSH Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply White HSH Upgrade comes with our T3Plus-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument 35 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
031, $119.99, HSH Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply Black HSH Upgrade comes with our T3Plus-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument 35 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
032, $156.99, HSH Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply White Pearloid HSH Upgrade comes with our T3Plus-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument 35 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
033, $156.99, HSH Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply Brown Tortoise HSH Upgrade comes with our T3Plus-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument 35 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
Stratocaster HH Upgrades
040, $121.99, Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply White HH Upgrade comes with our T4-Switch and your choice of our VT-2 or VT-3 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument (depending on your choices and pickups) 68 or 102 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
041, $121.99, Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply Black HH Upgrade comes with our T4-Switch and your choice of our VT-2 or VT-3 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument (depending on your choices and pickups) 68 or 102 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
042, $156.99, Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply White Pearloid HH Upgrade comes with our T4-Switch and your choice of our VT-2 or VT-3 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument (depending on your choices and pickups) 68 or 102 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
043, $156.99, Stratocaster Upgrade — A 3-ply Brown Tortoise HH Upgrade comes with our T4-Switch and your choice of our VT-2 or VT-3 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives your Stratocaster or similar instrument (depending on your choices and pickups) 68 or 102 pickup tones. Available in Custom version or Pro version; each version gives you the following option: (you supply pickups) or (includes our AweSome pickups). [Install Ease: 1]
Modern Player Marauder Upgrade
045, $140.99, Marauder Upgrade — A 3-ply White Pearloid Upgrade that contains our assembled and tested T4M-Switch. This upgrade gives you 68 pickup tones from your stock Modern Player Marauder instrument. [Install Ease: 3]
Hyper Tone Lab Upgrade
For thru-body (Les Paul, PRS, etc.) instruments
054, $98.99, T2 Hyper Tone Lab Upgrade — A quality upgrade for your thru-body instrument (e.g., Les Paul, PRS or similar instrument) with two pickup coils to give your instrument six pickup tones. Pickups can either be two single-coil pickups; or two 2-wire humbucker pickups or one 4-wire humbucker pickup. [Install Ease: 2]
055, $103.99, T3 Hyper Tone Lab Upgrade — A quality upgrade for your thru-body instrument (e.g., Les Paul, PRS or similar instrument) with three pickup coils to give your instrument 29 pickup tones. Pickups can either be three single-coil pickups; or three 2-wire humbucker pickups; or one 4-wire humbucker pickup and one single-coil pickup. [Install Ease: 2]
056, $105.99, T4 Hyper Tone Lab Upgrade — A quality upgrade for your thru-body instrument (e.g., Les Paul, PRS or similar instrument) with four pickup coils to give your instrument 68 pickup tones. Pickups can either be two 4-wire humbucker pickups; or one 4-wire humbucker pickup and two single-coil pickups; or four single-coil pickups. [Install Ease: 2]
057, $107.99, T4 Premium Hyper Tone Lab Upgrade — A quality upgrade for your thru-body instrument (e.g., Les Paul, PRS or similar instrument) with four pickup coils to give your instrument 102 pickup tones. Pickups can either be two 4-wire humbucker pickups; or one 4-wire humbucker pickup and two single-coil pickups; or four single-coil pickups. [Install Ease: 2]
Ibanez Upgrades
060, $121.99, HSH Ibanez Upgrade — A 3-ply White HSH Upgrade comes with our T3Plus-Switch. Gives your Ibanez RG350DX, JEM or similar instrument 35 pickup tones. [Install Ease: 1]
Peavey Upgrades
061, $121.99, Peavey Raptor PLUS Upgrade — A 3-ply White Upgrade comes with our T3Plus-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives you 35 pickup tones. [Install Ease: 1]
Mosrite Upgrades
062, $117.99, Mosrite Ventures Upgrade — A 3-ply White Upgrade upgrade with our T2-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly to give you you 6 pickup tones from your Mosrite Ventures guitar with two pickups. [Install Ease: 1]
063, $91.99, Mosrite Celebrity Upgrade — A 3-ply White upgrade with our T2-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly to give you 6 pickup tones from your 6/12 string Mosrite Celebrity guitar or bass with two pickups. [Install Ease: 1]
Brian May Guitar Upgrades
For Red Special, BMG Special, Burns Guitars
065, $126.99, Brian May Upgrade — A 1-ply White Upgrade with our S3-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives you 35 pickup tones. Uses your stock Tri-Sonic style single coil pickups and control knobs. [Install Ease: 1]
066, $126.99, Brian May Upgrade — A 1-ply Black Upgrade with our S3-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives you 35 pickup tones. Uses your stock Tri-Sonic style single coil pickups and control knobs. [Install Ease: 1]
067, $126.99, Brian May Upgrade — A 1-ply White Upgrade with our S3-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives you 35 pickup tones. Uses standard Stratocaster style single coil pickups and your control knobs. Available in bare or loaded version. [Install Ease: 1]
068, $126.99, Brian May Upgrade — A 1-ply Black Upgrade with our S3-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly. Gives you 35 pickup tones. Uses standard Stratocaster style single coil pickups and your control knobs. Available in bare or loaded version. [Install Ease: 1]
PRS Upgrades
070, $119.99, PRS Silver Sky Upgrade — A 3-ply White SSS Upgrade comes with our T3Plus-Switch. Gives your PRS Silver Sky or similar instrument 35 pickup tones. Available in our Custom version or PRO version (you supply pickups), [Install Ease: 1]
Jazz Bass Upgrades
090, $114.99, Jazz Bass Upgrade — An upgrade with our T2-Switch and our VT-1 Volume-Tone Control assembly to give you 6 pickup tones on your upgraded right-hand or left-hand Jazz Bass or similar instruments with 2 pickups. [Install Ease: 1]
091, $121.99, Jazz Bass Upgrade — An upgrade with our T3Plus-Switch and our VT-1 Volume-Tone Control assembly to give you 35 pickup tones on your upgraded right-hand or left-hand Jazz Bass or similar instruments with 3 pickups. [Install Ease: 1]
092, $122.99, Jazz Bass Upgrade — An upgrade with our T4-Switch and our VT-1 Volume-Tone Control assembly to give you 68 pickup tones on your upgraded right-hand or left-hand Jazz Bass or similar instruments with 4 pickup coils. [Install Ease: 1]
Other Bass Upgrades
095, $92.99, 2014 Modern Player 2.0 Jazz Bass Upgrade — An upgrade with our T4-Switch and our VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly to give you 68 pickup tones on your Modern Player 2.0 Jazz Bass or similar instrument projects with two 4-wire humbucker pickups (i.e., 4 pickup coils) and output jack mounted in the lower edge of the body. (for instruments with output jack mounted on control plate, use product #092) [Install Ease: 1]
097, $89.99, Modern Player 2.0 Dimension Bass — An upgrade with our T3Plus-Switch to give you 35 pickup tones on your Modern Player 2.0 Dimension Bass or similar instrument projects with 3 pickup coils. [Install Ease: 1]
Pickup Switch Upgrades
Assembled and Tested
120, $39.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assembled and tested T2P-Switch will give you 4 pickup tones on all your Precision Bass instrument projects. [Install Ease: 1-2]
121, $40.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assembled and tested T2-Switch will give you 6 pickup tones on all your instrument projects with two pickups. [Install Ease: 1-2]
122, $41.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assembled and tested T2Plus-Switch will give you 6 pickup tones on all your instrument projects with 4-wire humbucker pickups. Two of these switches (combined with other parts) will give you 102 pickup tones, several of which are QuadraBucker(tm) pickup tones. [Install Ease: 1-2]
123, $41.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assembled and tested T3-Switch will give you 13 pickup tones on all your instrument projects with three pickups. [Install Ease: 1-2]
124, $47.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assembled and tested T3Plus-Switch will give you 35 pickup tones on all your instrument projects with three pickups. [Install Ease: 1-2]
125, $47.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assembled and tested T4-Switch will give you 68 pickup tones on all your instrument with four pickup coils. [Install Ease: 1-2]
126, $49.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assembled and tested T4Plus-Switch will give you 102 pickup tones on all your instrument projects with four pickup coils. [Install Ease: 1-2]
127, $61.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assembled and tested T4M-Switch will give you 68 pickup tones on your Fender Modern Player Marauder guitar. [Install Ease: 2-3]
Pickup Switch Upgrades
User Assembled KITS
Special Note: The following user assembled KIT versions of our Pickup Switch UpgradeTM products also gives you the flexibility to replace the included mini toggle switches with functionally identical ones, but with a different color (gold, black) or shape (e.g., flat paddle) which we do not offer.
130, $28.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assemble-it-yourself T2P-Switch KIT will give you 4 pickup tones on all your Precision Bass instrument projects. [Assembly Ease: 1, Install Ease: 1-2]
131, $29.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assemble-it-yourself T2-Switch KIT will give you 6 pickup tones on all your instrument projects with two pickups. [Assembly Ease: 1, Install Ease: 1-2]
132, $32.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assemble-it-yourself T2Plus-Switch KIT will give you 6 pickup tones on all your instrument projects with 4-wire humbucker pickups. Two of these switches (combined with other parts) will give you 102 pickup tones, several of which are QuadraBucker(tm) pickup tones. [Install Ease: 1-2]
133, $31.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assemble-it-yourself T3-Switch KIT will give you 13 pickup tones on all your instrument projects with three pickups. [Assembly Ease: 1, Install Ease: 1-2]
134, $36.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assemble-it-yourself T3Plus-Switch KIT will give you 35 pickup tones on all your instrument projects with three pickups. [Assembly Ease: 1, Install Ease: 1-2]
135, $37.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assemble-it-yourself T4-Switch KIT will give you 68 pickup tones on all your instrument with four pickup coils. [Assembly Ease: 1, Install Ease: 1-2]
136, $41.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assemble-it-yourself T4Plus-Switch KIT will give you 102 pickup tones on all your instrument projects with four pickup coils. [Assembly Ease: 1, Install Ease: 1-2]
137, $50.99, Pickup Switch Upgrade — This assemble-it-yourself T4M-Switch KIT will give you 68 pickup tones on your Fender Modern Player Marauder guitar. [Assembly Ease: 1, Install Ease: 2-3]
Other Switch Products
140, $29.99, Middle Pickup Switch M1 — This is a user installed product that controls the middle single-coil pickup of instruments with HSH pickup configuration. This switch is used in combination with our T4-Switch in this HSH pickup configuration. [Install Ease: 1-2]
141, $29.99, Pickup Switch M2 — This is a user installed product that controls the "series-parallel" pickup connections of instruments using two of our T2Plus-Switch products or one of our T4Plus-Switch products. [Install Ease: 1-2]
142, $35.99, Kill (stutter) Switch K1 — A high quality long-life switch (rated at 1,000,000 mechanical cycles) that lets you add kill switch capability to your LP-style instrument upgrades. This is a user installed product. It replaces the 3-way switch of LP-style instrument upgrades. [Install Ease: 1-2]
143, $35.99, Kill (stutter) Switch K2 — A high quality long-life switch (rated at 1,000,000 mechanical cycles) that lets you add kill switch capability to your Stratocaster, Telecaster, Ibanez and similar instrument upgrades. This is a user installed product. Desired mounting location may require body wood removal to install. [Install Ease: 1-2]
Volume-Tone Control Assembly
151, $67.99, VT-1 Volume-Tone Control assembly — Stacked Volume-Tone control with chrome knobs for upgrade projects with tight body cavity space constraints where our VT-2 assembly cannot be used. For use with our T2/T3/T3Plus/T4-Switch products. [Install Ease: 1-2]
152, $41.99, VT-2 Volume-Tone Control assembly — A completely wired Volume-Tone control assembly for your upgrade projects. Uses quality Bourns controls. For use with our T2/T3/T3Plus/T4-Switch products. [Install Ease: 1-2]
153, $49.99, VT-3 Volume-Tone Control assembly — A completely wired Volume-Tone control assembly for your upgrade projects. Uses quality Bourns controls (Volume is standard, Tone is Push-Pull). Used with our T4-Switch to give you 102 pickup tones from your HSS instrument with one 4-wire humbucker pickup or HH instrument with two 4-wire humbucker pickups. [Install Ease: 1-2]
154, $57.99, VT-4 Volume-Tone Control assembly — Two completely wired quality Bourns Push-Pull potentiometer controls for your upgrade projects. Used with our T4-Switch and our M1 switch to give you 276 pickup tones from your HSH instrument with two 4-wire humbucker pickups. [Install Ease: 1-2]
M1-PCB Boards
160, $4.99, M1-PCB — A circuit board that simplifies wiring push-pull pots and mini toggle switches. Gives you true bypass for older pedals and other gear. Lets you configure it for different connectivity needs. [Install Ease: 1]
Complete Instruments
380, $499.99, Standard Stratocaster Style Guitar — This incredible guitar has features you only see on instruments that cost a lot more. Take a closer look at this guitar and see for yourself. Hardshell locking padded guitar case is available (see bottom of this product page for details)
381, $2,099.99, Deluxe Stratocaster Style Guitar — This incredible guitar has 35 pickup tones and sounds like every electric guitar ever made. You get Blues, Jazz, Metal, Surf, Country, Tin-canny pickup tones from one instrument. Take a closer look at this guitar and see for yourself. Hardshell locking padded guitar case is available (see bottom of this product page for details)
| Shipping: | All Upgrade products are shipped via United States Postal Service (USPS). AweSome Instruments are shipped via United Parcel Service (UPS). |
| Shipping Details: | Shipping generally occurs within three business days of payment. Saturday, Sunday and postal holidays are not business days. |
All products have a 30-day money back guarantee from purchase date. Ask questions before purchasing. Purchaser assumes all risk of liability with respect to the installation and use of these products.
These upgrades do not work with active (battery-powered) pickups or piezoelectric pickups.