Strat Players Will Love This | Ulbrick NRS 

What's your fave Strat upgrade or mod?

$250 for an induction loop / Faraday grounding circuit with some heat shrink around it is pretty steep.

I really like these video's Leon, great how you show us how to diy that stuff. I'm not a regular viewer but I watched some great video's from you past year. Keep that great content coming and I wish you great holidays and an awesome year ahead, and everybody that read this of course. Have fun making great music, I'm hoping to do a lot of mixing, greetings from the Netherlands 😀

EXCELLENT...What a good sound!

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit ive never heard of such a product and its blown my mind, will definitely be researching this one. Thanks Leon

Always enjoy your sharing your vast knowledge. Thank you

Very nice LT!

7:30 for some most excellent SNARLishisness tones. Interesting concept. Good of you to give them a bump! Thanks for everything in 2023 and Best Regards and Best Wishes for 2024!

This is just great. I usually try to tame mine with a gate, but you know what happens there-- you just lose so much. Thx for the introduction (and the intro lol).

Absolutely fantastic

Absolutely fantastic video have a good weekend leon ❤😊

Not only is your playing killer, you have some of the best stank face in the business 🤘🤘

Thanx dude.

Very cool mate

that looks awesome. I wonder if they are putting a coil (of similar impedance) in opposite polarity to the main coils between the coils ground and chassis ground. so that it causes a cancellation of the noise, kind of like a humbucker (kind of). Kudos to these guys for developing this thing.

Thank God for Dave Ulbrick for inventing little gadgets like this to solve the single coil hum, his amps are beasts too. I love the big CBS Strat headstocks, but the 70's quality control went out the window. Not only sloppy neck pockets but also the body contours got smaller and smaller. I agree with you Leon its criminal for what 70's Strats and Teles are going for.

The green sticker was from the QC process back then, basically just to verify the body had been cleared to use in an assembled guitar

What you call character marks...I call love bites 🤣 your 77 Strat oodles personality, watching you shred that beauty, is what convinced me to buy mine this year.

Thanks for this awesome demo Leon! Do you know if it's possible to install one of these systems in an Ibanez MM1 (Martin Miller's AZ), which has a HH config. I replaced the original SD pickups with a set of BKP Silo and REALLY LOVE the split tones I get with these awesome pickups! Although, I'd really like to get rid of the noise as much as possible, especially since I'm a studio artist. Thanks!

Cool gizmo!

Oh man. I saw this and am drinking my first cup of coffee. I love all your axes, but there's just something special about that guitar brother.. What a great idea. I've always hated the hum with singles, but love their time. So I used single coil EMGs.. What a great product man and what a great idea. Love the stainless frets and all the stuff you did to that thing. Very cool man.. You must have a great luthier. I have to travel a couple hours to find one . Is that a 3 screw plate in the back or did you convert it to 4? I've probably already asked, but can't remember in my old age, but have you gigged it? and if so do you have to setup your FM3 to work with it versus the Humbuckers guitars? Love this product and great review sir. The difference is amazing if you ask me. Good video my friend. Thank you for showing this product. I have to have one.. so when I'm healed up I can put my custom strat together with stainless Xtra jumbo frets and maybe dump the active humbuckers for some singles! Very cool . Have a great weekend brother. Any gigs this weekend? ❤❤

yngwie gonna love this

One of the best gear demos you've done Leon! I certainly could use at least six of these in some of my best sounding Strats. They aren't cheap though, and I'm wondering how much shipping to the USA would be. Probably as much as one of these NRS units I'm guessing.

Leon, your playing and tone at the beginning of the video sounded fantastic! What were you running your strat through please? Something available on the Axe FX III hopefully? Thanks

Having heard that guitar many many times, it seemed a bit darker in this video. Of course, there are a million possible reasons for that, but was that an outcome of this noise reduction system? And by the way, what an amazing noise reduction effect, all the way down to humbucker levels. Have you ever tried Lace Sensors, or the recent "Noiseless" Fender pickups?

What were the intro and outro effects chain please and what were you using as the sound was epic?!

That neck pocket shape was typical for about 30 years, at least into the early 2000s. Google Mickey Mouse Fender Neck Pocket.

What's the wah in the play out? I love it! Idiomatic Satchy juice. :)

I had one of these In my old Strat which had RWRP middle pickup. It was great in bridge and neck but noisy still in the other 3. I now have another Strat with a non RWRP middle pickup so I've just ordered another one of these. The only thing is how fragile the wires on the loop are. My first one came with the wires hanging off and had to exchange

Amazing demo Leon! I am considering buying this system over the Ilitch one because this one is cheaper. Have you ever compared the Ilitch and Ulbrick?

Hi Leon, what do you think about SS- Frets? What are the biggest differences between nickel- frets? Do you change your guitar- strings with the SS- Frets more often, than with nickel- frets?

Somewhat unintentionally, the fact that strats are so moddable may be one of Leo Fender's most important contributions to guitarkind.

I was seriously looking into one of these systems for a Strat project I just finished, but ultimately decided that it's just too expensive for what it is, which is essentially just a dummy coil. I can't live with 60 cycle hum, if this was a high dollar strat yeah I probably wouldn't mind spending the dough but for a low budget beater it just didn't make sense. I ended up settling for a set of Mojotone quiet coils and a humbucker in the bridge. I could probably make a dummy coil for free out of some old spare pickups, but I wanted to try these out first. They claim to be built with all the vintage materials and specs, just with the dummy coil already wired into the pickups.

Wow eh. That really works!

Sorry got bored waiting for the adverts to stop so missed your video

How does this compare to the Ilitch-system or Suhr-system ? I hesitate because ( even 3% Tonal change is unacceptable ) for me. Any Input is appreciated.

Why do you have so many ADA MP-1s? Just curious.

If you want to go full belt and braces noise reduction you can twist wires together and shield cavities and pick guards with copper tape.

Basically all strays are flawed in multiple different ways just the way Leo intended. . I like the sound of the bridge PUP there which mostly is useless in most strats Cool mod tho I’ve never heard of it. Just needs a sustainer now 🙏🙏

I would visit a haunted island alone for a year for that guitar. Lol😅

what about p90 ?

I can’t help but think it would have been easirt to just buy a Suhr or lightly reliced butique strat of some sort. I mean the only thing left now from the original strat is the wood and crappy neck joint 😂

Neck joint won’t hurt a thing. No matter how tight you make the pocket radius it will never be a perfect fit.

But man, the buzz IS my tone

Yes, the mid to late 70's Strats are considered to be the worst quality years of all time, with 1979 being the worst of all. CBS was more interested in profits at the time and demanded more production every year. Building a premium quality guitar is simply something that can't be rushed, especially since there were no such things as CNC machines back then. They tried to change that in 1980 when they brought in Dan Smith. The quality got better, but the profits weren't good enough, so CBS decided to put the company up for sale after a couple of years.

Nice system , but 250$ , too much expensive .

250$ that’s ridicolous… hope you did not pay for that