Get INCREDIBLE Stratocaster Tones! - The 10-Way Strat Switch! 

A dream come true...a truly versatile Strat!

when is your next strat build

I wanna be able to see more on the make ur strat that's like 70 dollars into a million bucks 0art 2

with the or just guitar build w/ the glass neck? love ur vids

Cool would it work on Godin Velocity. (Super Strat) which also has a 5 way?

Now what are you suggesting?

Because music is an extension of the soul, and stringed instruments are some of the most expressive out there. So they allow you to express yourself better--ergo, stands to reason they'll continue to be innovated upon.

It has definitely ceased to amaze me

@Jesse's Auditorium That could be stated about acoustic percussion instruments with strings/wires attached underneath or above the heads of the instruments. IMHO, Stringed and wind instruments were some of the first Solo Instruments, such as the Violin, Piano, Harpsichord, Guitar, and ect. In Blues, Rock and Jazz era music before the Electronic Revolution and after to present even, the Flute, Saxophone and Clarinet, Guitar to the (Banjo exclusive to America), were the first real solo instruments. The saxophone was the first non-electric Overdrive-Gain/Distortion/Fuzz toned solo instrument. (Anything In All Creation can be used as a musical instrument ! ! ! ) The innovations of woods, strings, hardware, metal alloys, all other materials and electronics have kept me amazed for their uses that I have studied back to the time of NOAH, to the Present Days AD onwards into the Future . . . , even the STAR TREK "VULCAN SPOCKTAR" was not a working model, but was a studio prop, but it was later made into a Real Functioning Electric 6-String Guitar much like the electric guitar that Pop Music Artist, Virtuoso, Legend "PRINCE" designed and played ! ! ! GOD/MUSIC/INSTRUMENTS/MY WOMAN/MYFAMILY/MY FRIENDS they are the MAJOR LIFTS IN MY LIFE, especially when any MINOR comes to Fall ! ! ! Peace & Play 🎸 On . . . 👍🤘🎸😎🙏 DDH 9-17-2020.

@@saintrhoads3375 and that's your prerogative. Between this, and Relish Guitars, along with what's going on in the pedal world, it's a pretty exciting time to be a guitarist, at least as far as I'm concerned.

Artur Brzozowski Hahahaha.. yep worth watching! it's only 9 p.m. for me!

@Soilent Green Hello zonemate! Greetings from Norway! :D

Been watching this at 5:30am, thanks Darrell

Soilent Green I was at work! Late morning comments

same exact time right now smh

Wow! A comment from StewMac!

Please figure out a similar system for 10 way switch for a 2 humbucker guitar!

@@sasmitha8446 ya could...but you'd need to re wire each single pickup to a switch. Simply...a lot of screw'n around. You'd also have more combinations cause there'd be 4 single coils.

@@sasmitha8446 They have a 6 way switch for Gibson toggle switches

Same, I love my humbuckers, and usually coil tap or split to try to get the tone of a strat. However, this might let me take a strat and get the tone of a humbucker. Definately going to do this my next warmoth build.

i was going to say the EXACT same thing.

Same, I use coil split in all my guitars and I find this like the same thing but reversed, and that's amazing

As a strat player, I assure you that single coils sound much better than coil splitting! Give it a try

Wonder how it sounds with hotrails

It’s a great mod , I love the new tones and as you mentioned a genius move in the design of the switch it looks absolutely stock.

Hahaha nice Mr. Braun always delivers

Now imagine it for a HSH model ... awesome.

@@stephanematis HSH calls for a different switch, the 5B5-02 for HSH / HSS / HHH

Fender would charge $300 more.😂

It’s amazing, I will add it. However in my opinion it’s not really necessary. That said, I would add it to my guitar

​@@ramencurry6672"Not really necessary" is one of the best reasons to do anything! "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" as the poet said.

@@harveycan5820 An issue with the design is that there’s a circuit board inside. With the moving parts of the switch it is more prone to break in the future . In my opinion a better solution is to find out which pickups pattern is your favorite and rewire to your liking without that product so it can be more sturdy

... on a different Strat!

@@jeffsguitarrepair2498 use a blender circuit and you can get 12 tones with the ten way switch.

@@earlycuyler8719 Whoa !! Mind blown !!

I made one with 3 independent Tone and Volume control for each PUs on my cheap Strat. Sound amazing and making a lot of fun

@@GillesJFP Sounds awesome. I love guitars with tons of controls on them, they look techy

Why? So that they can charge us 2-3 hundred more per guitar? Lol

@WF yeah you wish lol, fender charges 50 bucks for a damn treble bleed.

David DeQuasie as much as they cost should be the norm! Marketing they want you to buy a whole new guitar. No brainer upgrade.

@WF They may, but, all I was really trying to say was that if Fender offered it as a factory option, it would have a 200% markup. They would also most likely try to just buy the patent- then a 45 dollar part that we can install in any brand guitar we wish would potentially become proprietary and inaccessible to us. Could happen...probably wouldn't, but it isn't outside the realm of possibility.

absolutely; as stated in the video, a no brainer; I just ordered one

RC32 nah bro line 6 guitars are even better

Same! I bet the Jerry Garcia tone options just flow out of some of those settings through a little cleaner amp.

I've got a strat I was thinking about getting one for. You think it's worth the time and effort to install? I'm handy so I'll do it myself.

@@hamdog8872 If you have a stratocaster guitar that sounds and works properly dont touch it. With good pots you can do exactly this same 10 or 40 tone thing.

@@claudiocruzat8777 too late. Tone knobs don't cover what the sixth position does. Nobody has time to tweak an amp for an hour when you can click to next position in half a second. It's an awesome product.

Six way switch kicks ass.

This was exactly what I thought also

Have you ever tried humbuckers in single coils shape? I have them on one of my Strats and I love them.

@@countblue will definitely check them out thanks for letting me know

@@adiiqbal8010 To go into it further. Dont expect a signal like from a true single coil. It will be always more of a crossbreed between the two types of pickups. I for myself use "Ultrasonic" OBL pickups from the 90s. There are various other new contenders too of course.

found a Nashville Tele by Squier - basically a Tele SH Custom with a Strat Middle reverse phase pickup added... with a 5 way switch - takes a while to realize why the combos are diff than a 2 pickup in phase Tele Custom - mainly makes you wonder why Teles dont have 5 way switches with hard wired combos

Position 2 and 4 already kill hum so long as your pickups aren't super vintage correct. Also wiring your pickups in series has been a mod pretty much since forever. Being able to get a 7-way strat mod plus the series combinations without changing anything but the pickup selector is the crazy thing lol.

@@sawyerc.6033 🤣🤣

One might say you were almost... stratisfied?

@Jake R exactly why does your colleague think the switch is superfluous? That would mean it has no purpose or function or that the same outcome can be had more easily by other means. Baffled....

@@chrisb8075 Colleague clearly an idjit...

Considering how unusable is the strat bridge tone in most cases, i'd sat this switch is must instead.

@@EricM1711 you could use a push pull to reverse the phase of, say, the middle pup. Or a couple to give you more options. But the hum cancelling would be lost (except in the bridge + neck positions, which don't have noise cancelling without a phase switch, but would have with a phase switch). I'm making some assumptions there based on my own Strat wiring experiences, so don't quote me :)

Committing to memory? 1, 3, 5 line up with the 6, 8, 10 series tones. Only the 7 & 9 parallel setting would be the learning curve.

I can't quite think through what you mean by "double up on tone controls". I have a theory but I'm not sure - can you clarify?

@@AlanCath i think he means have multiple pickups on one tone pot

Did you lost tone control to bridge pickup and did bridge pickup sound the same as on original switch?

Haha I had the same concern

Lol actually in this one you have more to..remember(although its still a great mod) but a blender knob its easier,more flexible and still cheaper...cause if you think for example that the sound the bridge is a bit icepicky all you need to do is roll the knob a bit to bring a bit of the neck and its not all the neck but just the amount you need....

If you're interested, I've got a Strat with an S1 switch, and when I select the bridge and neck pickup together it's surprisingly close to a Tele - truly a wonderful sound. So this Freeway selector might be a great idea if you already own a Strat.

I can get that with my 5 way switch. Just physically switch middle & bridge pickups, don't rewire anything and you've got it

"Just physically switch middle & bridge pickups" --> 1.) M (relocated Bridge PU) 2.) B and M (as original, except swapped places) 3.) B (relocated Middle PU) 4.) B and N (relocated M in Parallel with N) 5.) N I haven't checked recent situation, but at least traditionally stock Strat lacks Tone for the Bridge Pickup. If so, here the Middle Pickup lacks the Tone. If needed, it's relatively easy mod to either change it back, or to include Tone for all pickups. When pickup totally lacks the Tone, it sounds little bit brighter and louder. Just like with Fender No-Load Tone, when it's clicked to its max position (No load = Tone is detached from the circuit). In some Strats, all pickups are identical. While in some others, they aren't.

@@0megalul309 A video needs to be made of that!

@@sawyerc.6033 Oh you are talking about the HH version. I was talking about the HSS one, for me that's the best pickup combination. Your mod sound intresting but I would ad 2 more nobs so each pickup gets a volume and a tone.

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Same thoughts here... I need to check that diagram that came with my Strat to compare with this one here... :D

I have the same question

I thought about that too, but there is no denying there is still ten useful sounds here.

@@jeffsguitarrepair2498 Yes, I know. I use a "Fat-o-caster" switch on my partscaster and I believe this 10-way switch is a better alternative, but both would be better with a more advanced wiring. Using 2 single coils wired in series are very good for soloing, but doesn't work for power chords. In my next built I will try something with a 500k push/push pot and a 270k resistor. I know a HSS setting would be smarter, but I don't want to compromise the bridge+middle position, I think that's the most funky

@@juyanine So you would put the 270k fixed resistor across the 500k pot to cut the impedance in half for single coils, but only when the switch enables it?

Actually that would mean using a 500k resistor in parallel with 500k pot to get a 250k result. But why bother with that, just use the tone pot as a master tone and turn that up to reduce the treble on the "normal" positions due to the 500k volume pot.

Seriously can't believe its only 50 bucks

i was

his vids were great back then too

This comment marks my place in history.

@@ZaneDalton people will tell their children about you

1,000,000th comment! Ooh my god, I can’t believe it’s actually me.!!

Similar thing. I have the S1 in my strat with a preamp. But the preamp is more of a voice/tone mod, that brightens and fattens the tone. And there's also no position to activate all 3 pickups. But with this added to the preamp, it could get even more interesting :)

The 6 position switches for Les Paul or Tele players is still in stock most places :-)

They are back in stock! I just received their e mail notification