quick, easy replacement of stock equipment; really appreciate the solderless harness setup. Solid swiching and tone control.
What a well-designed piece of kit! Gives you a lot of versatility for experimenting with different pickup combinations.
I wanted to try assembling some parts I had into an offset tele-style guitar with neck humbucker, but I didn't know anything about electronics or have soldering equipment. The Obsidian was the cleanest no-solder solution I found. I bought one with the push-pull tone pot for coil splitting a humbucker pickup and found it very easy to install. The Wago push-button terminal block on the board is perfect for guitar wiring, and less fussy than screw terminals.
If you've got a Lawing Zexcoil pickup with six individual coils, the push-pull switch as configured won't enable their "silent split". With a normal coil split, one of the coils is just sent to ground when splitting. The Zexcoil needs to be switched from series to parallel instead, which requires different wiring. If you split the Zexcoil with this configuration, you only get sound from three strings, but it works fine in non-split mode.
I emailed Obsidian with questions about the configuration and got a reply directly from the founder!
Took a minute to figure out the correct wiring.
Customer service was great.
Fast response to my questions.
I could install another 1 in no time.
So far I like it. Seems to be high quality.
I usually solder.
I see the benefits of a quick pup swap.
Awesome product! Super easy install. Works flawlessly. No dead spots, scratching, hissing, or any other anomalies. Couldn't be happier. Fretless Jazz Bass with passive Bartolini's.
Vintage '3-Way' for Tele®