Soldering Your Pickups is HISTORY 

Huh... no solder? I guess I could sniff some glue while installing this to compensate for the lack of solder fumes

That was the BEST RU-vid intro I have ever heard in my entire life 😂

It’s cool that you did this experiment but the stock wiring wins by a landslide. The Gunstreet was WAY too bright and sounded thin and “tinny” as others have described. This video actually convinced me to go exclusively soldered from now on. Thanks for the education. 🤘

soldering is an easy thing to learn , and it's better in time imo ;p

For those wondering the difference in brightness, Kyle explains at the end of the vid the stock pots were 300k vs the 500k in the solderless. So if you prefer the stock configuration it is mostly likely you just prefer 300k pots. Just leaving this here cause I almost missed it myself lol. Don't let the sound difference fool you into staying soldered. Solderless set ups are so good with keeping unwanted noise down as well as being able to change pickups on the fly without any sound quality loss.

Finally! I thought EMG was onto something years ago with their solderless pups. I'm definitely going to look into this! And yes, FIRE BAD! If you get the reference, you're old!

Soldering is one of those darn things that I entirely understand how it works but just suck at actually doing it.

I think this is great for people that don't know how to solder or don't like to. I personally love soldering and doing it is very fast for me. It's also good to know if you want to do things with push pull or super switches.

Thanks for the video Kyle! The intro is incredible!

"We talking about practice!" - Allen Iverson

Loving that Les Paul, which is why I own the same one. I had the pickups and wiring changed as well.

Wow, that really makes a big difference in tone/gain. Very cool.

When i bought an emg set i was so happy. I was like this should be standard equipment for every pickup company. Click everything together in 30 mins.

This comparison just isn't very fair. You were wearing a different shirt when testing the pickups so that tone cloth clearly affected the results. All kidding aside I can hear the difference in treble at lower volumes, but I'm not entirely sure I like that or not. It sounds a little "tinny" whatever that means. Thanks for the video!

I never used to use my volume or tone knobs for like 20 years but now I use em all the time and the treble-bleed I think they're called are absolutely killer!

Once all the wiring circuitry layout clicks, soldering is so easy. I used to loath it until I figured out this wire goes here and this goes here and there is always a constant, no matter how complex the wiring gets. Once that clicks, it's easy as.

I've used a few solderless setups. Once I determined i was happy with my choice in pickup, wiring scheme, etc, i have always soldered em in. Can't say i heard any difference, but my brain tells me capacitance, impedance, etc is affected by stuff not being soldered in properly

I think soldering is almost easier than those little screws that those things usually have

I'm an old fart, I've been farking around with wiring in cars, motorcycles and guitars most of my life, I've NEVER had any problems with a good solder joint, I've had A LOT of problems with plug in joints, and component failure, electrical interference from poorly insulated connections, loose connections over time, the less parts the better imo.... PS, I've only ever use 500k pots in my Les Pauls...

I’ve gotten past the point where the actual soldering is the challenge. My solder joints are usually pretty clean and I have a basic idea of where everything goes. I’m now on the “ok everything is wired up so WTF is there no sound????” stage of guitar electronics mastery. Yeah it sucks! And I still end up taking it to the shop. Fuck!!!!!!!!

Honestly it’s a smarter way to do things at the end of the day. It’s faster, cleaner, and don’t require any extra tools.

I prefer the stock harnesses to be honest. Way too bright on the Gunstreet.

I chose the MadHatter solderless kits for fun a few years back and now they’re in all my guitars and bass.

I'm a fan of 50's wiring on LesPauls. It accomplishes the same thing, and just makes more sense on a 2 volume 2 tone pot equipped guitar. Now for guitars with only 1 volume and 1 tone pot, modern wiring with a treble bleed curcuit is the hot ticket. The only time I've run into a problem using these wiring options, is on my PRS SE McCarty .594 singlecut standard. It has the 58/15 LT pickups with 3 wires for coil tapping. It comes with modern wiring and a treble bleed curcuit on both volumes from the factory. Well, when I converted it to 50's wiring and eliminated the treble bleeds. The pickups being low output and the tone pots wired with different value resistors for the coil taps. It makes the tones way to thin sounding at any level under 10. This has me perplexed, because I'm not fully understanding why this is happening? I've come to the conclusion that in order to utilize the factory Low Turn pickups at any setting below wide open. They need the minimum amount of resistance to retain maximum character and a wide frequency range. Using 50's wiring with those coil tapping curcuits, just thins out the signal way too much. Now I've gotta go back under the hood of that thing and wire it back modern and add a good treble bleed to each volume pot again! You live and learn. If anyone has a clue as to why this wiring configuration reacts this way? Please chime in to enlighten me. So far I've found not a single human that can explain this to me in any logical way? I'm tempted to 86 the Low Turns and start from scratch with higher output pickups.

I preffered the stock wiring on that pbass, it sounded awesome at 100% volume!

Great opening on the vid, looks like a great product

Solder is mainly lead free. And all instruments use it, I use leaded solder myself. (Doing electronics many years) and there is a slight difference because lead is a better conductor. This is a interesting piece of hardware.

I needed this

Stock sounded better to me.

Anyone who finds soldering difficult, only knows how to play Smoke on the Water on one string.

Soldering can be tricky, but you get good at it fast. The key, and I mean THE KEY, is having a quality iron. I wasted a lot of time (and made some ugly messes) with a cheap shitty iron. Since I got a decent one, it’s been smooth sailing. That being said, it is still time consuming, so solderless setups are really appealing.

I just gutted a 90s rg and put emg circuitry and pickups... it was fast and solderless...and man this thing shreds like the 80s and grinds like the 90s...the only tool required was drilling the wire tunnel for the jackwires to accommodate the width of the terminal connectors..

Soldering is very relaxing for me and cheaper 🤷‍♂️, if I could afford these solderless harnesses I'm sure I would try one

I connect all my active pickups with the EMG easy wire kit....it works for every brand including fishman...you can only get one voice tho

The flame on the top of that Les Paul Tribute is super nice and those are supposed to be plain!

I sense a pickup battle in the future 👀👀👀

You're a guitarist you can't do math!!! Dude that line dug up nightmares in devry lab rooms for me lol!!!

I think solderless wiring harness' are worse than actually soldering!! I taught myself how to solder because of a wireless harness (l9ng story).

The glen picture 😭 his argument against pickups is so funny like obv a guy who can barely play guitar doesn’t care about the feel of different pickups and just focuses on a sound he can eq 🙄

I taught myself. Really not that hard. But plug n play seems cool. The VVC switch sounds awesome.

Kyle what Amp is that in the backing track?😱 Sounds F'ing glorious!🤘

The irony is debating, heatedly.😬 Everyone is looking for a price appealing way to find their own identity, and sound. This is an inspiring take for the DIY/$ strapped/originator.

Great intro 🎉

I just made a video on their Strat solderless harness and I really like these products, very useful and easy install...

I understand that Gunstreet is a sponsor but I have been using GFS kwik-plug electronics for years and they sound every bit as good as my factory soldered guitars. I have a pro-grade soldering station for emergencies but I prefer ease of use.

Looks like a winner. Hopefully these do well, and they expand into doing the solderless systems for the SG… that’s what I need. I have one with the PCB harness, like you pulled out of that LP. I’ve already replaced a jack, a switch, and recently the entire board… and now another switch is starting to get a bit dodgy. And let me tell you… I CANNOT solder one damn bit. Speaking of that LP… does that one have a 490T in the bridge? If so, what do you think? I have one (with the PCB plug) sitting around, was thinking of switching the Classic 57 that’s in there and seeing how I get on. I know the 57 is a “better” pickup, but I haven’t been getting along with it lately.

i just had to solder my input jack for my ibanez. works like a charm now. no solder would be great

I just used the mojotone solderless harness and it's awesome. I can weld very well and I still suck ass at soldering wich is why 90% of my guitars always had emg's lol

Poor GLEEEEEEEN! 😂

I've used these for a guitar build but I usually solder. These no solder kits only come in common configurations like Strat, Tele, Les Paul etc.

Ya didn't hafta tell it like it is, Kyle!!

Mad Hatter Solderless Products are Pretty good too. Also worth Checking out.

I’ve had this squier tele for like 5 years and i love the way it plays more than my MIM tele but im too afraid to learn to solder so i might actually pick this up for a pickup replacement. Plus they’re from my city so PDX represent

I’ve been using the mad hatter stuff for a couple years and I love it. Soldering pickups and pots has always been no fun to me. Getting wiring neat is impossible for me. Plug and play pickup systems are the way!

Does the harness allow for a dip switch selector for capacitors? Say 250k / 500k / 1Meg

Nice Allen Iverson reference at 0:10.

Just last night, i soldered a Seymour Duncan Dimebag set into my Epiphone Flying V. It's such a major improvement, but my dumb a$$ broke the nut. It won't hold a low E string now, so I have an awesome sounding 5-string Flying V. Smh I dropped it off at the local shop with my trusted Luthier to install a new nut today. Im so dumb sometimes. Its like I'm that stinky kid with a cloud over his head from the old Charlie Brown cartoon. Tomorrow will be better.😢

ready for the USA ESP vid 🤤

Nice lookin' Les Paul.

"single channel amp players" is another term for "clean to low-gain players"... Just more polite...

I have been looking into this, as I usually fuck up when I change my passive pick ups out. I wonder if they do wiring setups for guitars that aren't a Les Paul or a Strat.

Soldering is easy 🤷‍♂️ Less expensive, too

How am I supposed to my hands warm in my basement without burning my hands and fingers?

Personally I prefer the original pickups tone. The second is way too bright for my taste.

No ltd/esp 3 knob eclipse version. 😞

I know how to solder, but I'm autistic and have issues with fine motor skills. I can play guitar okay (I'm never gonna be Steve Vai, but whatever) but I really can't do clean soldering at all. Stuff like this is a godsend.

Anyone try heatless solder ???

Maybe soon they will make a left handed set.

Who else thought this was going to be a GuitarFetish video?

Is it me or is there a significant tone change between solder and solderless harness? And I actually like the former way more. Honestly, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel here. Learn to solder, mates.

I went to their site but I'm not seeing it. Will it be updated soon?

Interesting

My bugera 333xl infinium keeps fucking up. Second time after maintenance 😢

I’m a plumber I can solder like a mfer

Hey Kyle, do you have a PO Box? I’ve got a pedal I want to send for you to check out.

You know the 'L' isn't silent in the word solder right?

SoLder not “sodder”

depends if your a guitarist that pays to play or poor as hell and had no choice but to learn to solder and set up your guitar or not play that be me

Guess i taught myself soldering for nothing 😄😂

A les paul who's bright and clear??

wtf is sodering ?????

Nope. Soldering is the only way to go

UH EMG HAS HAD A SOLDERLESS INSTALL FOR OVER 10 YEARS NOW @KYLEBULL