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These documents will help you to assemble, install and use our family of High-Performance patented Pickup Switch UpgradeTM products.
If you have purchased either of the following Pickup Switch UpgradeTM products, download the specified documents:
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Pickup Switch UpgradeTM KIT products: KIT-T2, KIT-T3 or KIT-T4 then download documents #1, #2 and #3.
Also see the applicable documents #A, #B and #C.
- Assembled and Tested Pickup Switch UpgradeTM products: ASY-T2, ASY-T3 or ASY-T4 then download document #3.
Also see the applicable documents #A, #B and #C.
- STRATOCASTER Pickguards: SRW-T4, SRW-T3, SRB-T4, SRB-T3, SRP-T4, SRP-T3, SRT-T4, SRT-T3 then download document #4.
Also see the applicable documents #B and #C.
- TELECASTER Control Plates: TCP-T2, JCP-T3 or TCP-T4 then download document #5.
Also see the applicable documents #A, #B and #C.
- JAZZ BASS Control Plates: JCP-T2, JCP-T3 or JCP-T4 then download document #6.
Also see the applicable documents #A, #B and #C.
- Assembly Instructions for T2, T3 and T4 KIT products (your product contains a REV A or REV B printed circuit board).
Assembly Instructions for T2, T3 and T4 KIT products (your product contains a REV C printed circuit board).
- Testing Instructions for T2, T3 and T4 Assembled and Tested Board products.
- Installation Instructions for T2, T3 and T4 Assembled and Tested Board products.
- Stratocaster Pickguard Installation Instructions.
- Telecaster Control Plate Installation Instructions.
- Jazz Bass Control Plate Installation Instructions.
- Modern Player Marauder Upgrade Installation Instructions.
- Mosrite Upgrade Installation Instructions.
- T4-Switch Upgrade Instructions For HSH Instruments to get 228 pickup tones.
Other Helpful Documents:
The following application support notes suggest how to connect our products to various pickup configurations. If you have something that you would like to see listed, use our contact form and lets us know.
- How You Get 6 Pickup Tones Using Our T2-Switch Product.
- How You Get 35 Pickup Tones Using Our T3-Switch Product.
- How You Get 76 Pickup Tones Using Our T4-Switch Product.
Did you know that session musicians and other customers are now using our newly-released T4-Switch product to upgrade their 4-pickup coil instruments to produce 76 Pure Analog pickup tones? This gives you the ultimate in pickup tone power with just one instrument.
- How to Change a 4-wire Humbucker into a 2-wire version.
- Humbucker Pickup Wire Color Codes (courtesy Seymour Duncan).
- How To Use a 4-Wire Humbucker To Act As Two Separate Pickups.
- Suggested Wiring for our Volume/Tone control kits.
- Pickup Switch Upgrade Selection Chart.
- How To Span a Bridge coil with a Neck coil so they are in series.
- How To Swap a Bridge humbucker coil with a Neck humbucker coil using a switch.
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How To Modify a 2-wire humbucker for coil tapping (courtesy diyguitarmods.com).
We recommend you not ground the 4th wire to the pickup case (in Step 7 of this article) as it may prevent our switch products from working correctly.
- NEW ==> How To Fix Output Drop when Humbucker coils are in reverse phase.
