With a master volume and master tone control the Custom Blender Harness packs your traditional Strat® tones into a smaller space, leaving the third tone control free.
This becomes the blender control, adding the ability to blend the neck and bridge pickups in together. This is amazing for adding a range of musical mids to your lead tone (like the bell like effects David Gilmour gets in his signature Strat) or for adding some twang to your rhythm, just like you find in the middle position on a Tele®. When you need a complete wall of sound, you can even mix all three pickups together by flicking the five way switch to position 2 or 4.
1:Bridge Pickup + Neck Blended in
2:Bridge & Middle Pickup + Neck Blended in
3:Middle Pickup
4:Neck & Middle Pickup + Bridge Blended in
5:Neck Pickup + Bridge Blended in
When it is time to ease back to your traditional positions, simply roll the blender knob off, and it will remove itself completely from the circuit. This returns your neck, middle and bridge pickups back to the vintage positions we all know and love
1:Bridge Pickup
2:Bridge & Middle Pickup
3:Middle Pickup
4:Neck & Middle Pickup
5:Neck Pickup
To make your tone crystal clear at lower volumes we also include an ObsidianWire Custom Spec Treble Bleed Mod. This prevents tone 'muddiness' at low volumes by allowing high frequencies to pass along a separate path to your amp, rather than being stopped short by the increasing resistance at the volume control.
ObsidianWire Custom Select Pots (Crafted by CTS) (+/-6%) (Matched to +/-2%) SPLIT SHAFT
Genuine Oak Grigsby Switch
Genuine Switchcraft Output Jack
ObsidianWire Custom Select 150 Series Polyester Film Capacitor (Hand Tested to +/-10%)
ObsidianWire Premium Selected Volume Mod / Treble Bleed - Improved Volume Taper & Clarity
Easy to Follow Install Manual
Endless Customer Support
American and Mexican series Fender® Strat® - Direct Fit
Japanese Fender & Squiers® - You will need to widen the control holes out to 10mm and get new US Spec, 24 spline knobs to fit the higher grade electronics.
Other Models - We cannot guarantee that these will fit any other guitar.
Excellent product. The ease of installation is phenomenal as are the tones it produces. To say that it is an upgrade sells it short. It completely overhauls the sound and brings out the best in the irongear pickups installed. Clarity plus tonal variation are now in abundance. I will be purchasing the vintage version to install as a "drop in" loaded pickguard as a result and look forward to new innovations.
I wish I would have found this sooner. Such easy installation. Fast shipping. Product actually arrived two days early. I already had the guitar apart in preparation, and it took me less than 15 min to install the new pickups and restring it. It's the perfect item if you're chasing tones and experimenting with pickups. Very solid electronics. You can tell quality parts are installed on the unit.
