I'm going to make a 920D comment for all of you. I have a guitar from them, PRail Tele Deluxe. Had some trouble with tone and volume pots, but I don't have time to send it in, so I emailed asking for direction to trouble shoot. Jimmy Darr personally emailed me, walked me through it, problem solved. Well, 3 weeks later, new problems. Same email, but, more solutions. Not only more direction if needed, but he fully offered to fix, replace or exchange the pickguard. He was very prompt with his replys and super helpful. Keep in mind, the wiring is beautiful, the problems I'm having are component issues, not anything to do with the 920D custom shop, their product is amazingly well built. Blows away any wiring found in almost any stock guitar I've seen. These guys stand by their product, and have any option you can think of, or will make it a reality for you. And they were doing these mods long before the big companies got on board the last few years. I highly recommend checking out their website Sigler Music or 920D Custom Shop. Rock on guys
Your comment about having one (1) guitar that will cover "Les Paul" "Tele" "Strat" on a gig is why I use an Ernie Ball Music Man Silhouette and leave my HSS Strat at home. Actually I do carry a spare Silhouette to gigs as a backup just in case. When I bought my first Silhouette 18 years ago both of my Les Pauls were sold. No longer needed. My Silhouettes are much lighter with equal quality tone and more versatility than any Gibson or Fender. I am planning to get a third Silhouette with a Tremolo and set up with a 920D PRails Hotrails set up.
Experience. Those little switches going to BREAK on you. Replace with push button. Hard to replace since they're so tiny. Order an extra switch when replacing. You're going to burn it soldering.
Man it's so nice to see someone do a review like this that actually knows how to play. Think I'm going to plop one of these into an old Peavey predator that has sat unplayed for years.
I just got mine yesterday. I had to rework some of it (the capacitor they had wouldn't fit so I needed to unsolder and relocate it). Also, it was missing the selector switch tip, and the white wire for the 1/4 jack had broken off and needed to be resoldered. Overall, it sounds decent, but maybe a bit muddy. I've noticed that despite having a ton of copper coating the cavity, splitting the humbuckers to single coil creates a TON of noise. A bit beyond the normal 60hz hum. Did you notice that as well?
I had the Everything Axe set on my Strat. I found the Lil’ 59 to be too bright in humbucking model and useless with one coil cut. So I wired it to a push-pull pot to go from series to parallel. Still too bright. Sooooo.... I sold the Lil’59 and replaced it with the JB Jr. neck and wired it to the same switch. Now the neck pickup sounds like a real humbucker in series and it sounds like a real Strat pickup with very little loss of volume in parallel. The disclaimer is that I play on the jazzier side of things. Otherwise, the Lil’59 is a great sounding pickup. Nice video.
I was thinking about doing that to mine. My favorite sound is using the bridge and finger board together. The combination of the JB jr with the Lily 59 gives me the best of both.
I'm thinking about this arrangement: Seymour duncan everything axe: Jb Jr bridge, Duckbucker middle and little 59 neck Thoughts? I like John Mayer, Bryan Adams and Mark Knopfler tones ( examples )
The volume drop from hum to single can be a good thing, make sense to play rhythm wid the single coil and when its time to solo just flip to hum and you get a boost
Great video! I cannot find your pickguard on their website. I was hoping to find one like yours with the Seymour Duncans in pearl white. Have they discontinued these? Thanks.
Great vid! I find using a clean boost pedal with single coils and turning it off when engaging humbuckers is an easy volume loss fix . Currently using an RC booster 🤘
I have always thought the bridge pickup should be a little bit hotter just because I only really use it sometimes to add a little more brightness to a solo. I do most of my soloing and neck position or number four right behind that. But regarding the 920 pickup set, I had dropped them all as low as they would go before I put it in and then I made my adjustments to the height once it was hooked up. And it gave me a lot more control and right about the time I did that it's when the silver sky SC came out and they were all balanced and volume from first pick up middle pickup and bridge pickup. I think it's more of a personal preference thing instead of like whether or not it should have been done.
Three toggles no 5 way is a better way to do this. Example(wire as you like): Bridge and neck toggles - up humbucker, middle off, down single. Middle - up off, down on. Or a 3 way with phase swap. Same possibilities but eliminate clutter by trashing the 5 way and moving the toggles lower. If I bought this I'd have them build it like that.
I already have an everything axe but learned of this set. What single could do you keep in your red strat? I might more interested in that if you have a video
Great video. Did you try parallel/series instead of splitting the humbuckers? I am curious how that sounds. I have the Little 59 in a Tele bridge, which is wired for parallel/series. There is no drop in volume and the pickup still retains a fair amount of Tele'ness....clearly not the same a true Tele bridge pup, but good enough. Thanks
I use DiMarzio stacks (pretty old ones) in my only Strat and always get compliments on it's sounds. They still have "the quack" despite guy's online saying stacked/noiseless pick-ups being sterile and lifeless. It's more important to have tools that work.
Good job, even if there were a couple of hic-cups installing it. More bang for your guitar which makes giging easier . not having to haul along extra gear.
Hi Henry. Thanks for capturing this vid, esp. the wiring advice for the ground. What kind of Strat is that? I'm thinking of picking up up that same pickguard for a Highway 1 Strat, which looks similar to the one in the demo. Thanks!
The 59 and JB aren’t clones of their bigger brothers simply because there are more winds on those vs the Jr’s. That being said, this pickguard set up has a myriad of great tones to offer-just don’t think that you’re going to get a true JB and 59.The juniors are essentially humbucking single coil pickups that reduce the 60 cycle hum while giving the same output of a larger humbucking pick up.This is really a Strat more or less Paul but it gives more total variations than a traditional strap so it’s very versatile in that manner. I have this same item and one of my struts and I run a compressor all the time to help even out the volume drops between coil change modes
The middle pup, the duck bucker is a humbucker actually. You just wouldn’t want to split it because it sounds like a single coil due to the three pole pieces on top and bottom. I have that set in a Chapman with no pick guard so i had to drill out my guitar for the toggles.
@@Davo2233 It sounds great and yes the Duckbucker does get a little thin when split but as a humbucker it’s just a beautiful sound. Highly recommend this PU config or just get it all pre wired as it is.
Great video! * A potential fix that could work in theory that Seymour Duncan could have done and tried, for a loaded pickguard and I like them, to avoid a volume drop. Theoretic possibility when I buy a loaded pickguard for my Strat. ** To get the most out of a humbucker, 500k pots make absolute sense for full power. A 250k pot would restrict humbucker output, but it will do the gain enough, to one’s liking. If 250k pots were used, the humbucker should be tamed, but the single coil shouldn’t be restricted, giving less of a volume drop. Humbucker loses a bit of output, restricted. The single coil/split in theory shouldn’t be restricted, thus minimizing the volume drop. I am going to try this and will update. Swapping 500k to 250k if the owner has to do it, is a couple solders and I like Dimarzio pots, which in my opinion are excellent, durable and inexpensive. Some companies will take orders and do it for you. I swapped electronics loaded in my Les Paul Standard, spoke to the company and they made it to the specs I wanted. Great! You likely noted this, but WD makes many and will customize, SD will just sell them and Stratosphereparts sell mint used loaded pickguards and have tons for all guitars. I will update with the company I used, but WD is great I hear. When I update the company I used, they had one price, but offered the electrics or a custom pickguard for more, but pickup price added. It would be cheaper to buy an everything loaded pickguard and I am guessing that 250k pots MAY work in theory. It may act like a capacitor, in restricted output to one level. This could be a good possible solution for pickup volume loss. Theory, but it makes sense. That doesn’t mean it will work. What is the worst? It doesn’t and the 500k pots go back in. I am thinking of this loaded pickguard for my deluxe Strat, but buying a mint Jeff Beck Artist Strat, with hot noiseless pickups to match a single coil sized humbucker to put in the bridge for more 80’s rock in the bridge. Will keep 250k pots for the single coil humbucker to see if that works. The problem lies in matching the output to the hot noiseless ceramic pickups in the Beck, so their will be no volume loss. I just want great noiseless Strat tones, but add a lil 59,Dimarzio Fast track suggested in videos, but hot noiseless puts out about 10.6K, with 5/6/5 out of 10 for EQ. There is a direct, or so close match in EQ and output listed on Dimarzio’s website. The Dimarzio air Norton s puts out 11.21K, but the general outputs are also similar, with 6.5/7/5 EQ. Pretty Strat eq, with mildly lower treble. It also has rail style pickups, which gives full output with bends. They can’t be raised or lowered like individual pole pieces, but if the EQ is right to start with, individual pole pieces are old school. Why lose very mild power on a whole step bend, or more, moving beyond pole pieces, but not rails. Regular playing is not noticeable. Recorded sound and it can be noticed easily, being more “picky” of subtitles. I am thinking JS1200 Ibanez, but might swap out pickups for full sized Fender Double Taps. Fender calls it a secret to get full humbucking and noiseless with no volume drop. Not a secret? Stacked single coils wrap the top one direction, have a spacer and the bottom opposite direction. Do it opposite side by side to make a combined humbucker and it uses one full when split, but half of the second coil. Not single coil size, but it nails Strat tones, considered Ultra Strat pickups and no volume loss. Amazing, but this was added for Strats with bigger routs. Sorry to go offer topic for a second, but for those with bigger routes. Why are we sticking old school if new technology snd experimentation works. Being a vintage freak/lover is silly. If a car, do you scrap air conditioning to be traditional? Silly! Just my thoughts and opinions that MAY work in theory. Sorry this is long. Great video! Great idea! Just complimenting something great. Stay safe! :)
I shaw have offered something different, but, this loaded pickguard is great. Ultra HSS loaded pickguards come up and have the humbucker double twin, (something like that) and two hot noiseless pickup like in the Jeff Beck, but Ultra and it nails the Strat tone, like no other. The cool thing is the design of the humbucker. When split, it is exactly the same as the other two hot single coils with no volume loss anywhere. One came up, as they do and I hummed and was indecisive and missed it, because I am obviously stupid and could have taken the HSS Deluxe pickguard off my mid 2000 Deluxe Strat HSS S1 with Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pickups. These rock, but the Ultra really nails it. The benefit, of this is I have the LSR roller nut like the Beck and the Bridge, like the Beck. If I were smarter, I would have bought a newer deluxe Strat, mint used, to get the colour and the LSR roller nut, the great bridge, then swap for the ultra HSS loaded pickguard and had an Ultra Jeff Beck Strat, with great pickups, great bridge, with pop in locking trem arm, LSR roller nut and it would be a Strat that can rock the F out and also sound like a Strat, but noiseless. Man, how I regret not doing that. *This pickguard loaded is very cool and I really like it, but will hold off for the loaded Ultra HSS S1 Strat Loaded Pickguard to come up mint used again, like I should have bought in the first place to have the Ultimate Strat, plus the Bridge and LSR roller nut. Flawless. There is no wrong, this pickguard rocks, sounds great and this is only food for thought. Everything is personal preference and I am still considering this pickguard loaded. Great video! Great pickguard! Great tones! Just food for thought, but either way, one cannot go wrong. All the best! Great video! :)
I am thinking that after taking the neck off the body that you will have to do a complete setup with intonation. What do think Henry? Also the difference in volume between single coil and humbucker is normal ia it...overall I think this an awesome setup for a gigging musician. Good job Henry
You don't need to cut any wires - simply Drill out the Hole for the output to fit down ... That's it. The nut on the output is held onto the jack plate.
Don't cut them. You just heat the solder, melt it, pull the wire out, put it through the hole, reheat the solder and apply the wire back to the solder point. Easy stuff. Definitely check out their website, many amazing choices. Good luck
I have an HSS guitar and thinking about putting these pickups, what's the best full-size humbucker equivalent to the JB.Jr? Does a regular JB Trembucker will match in terms of tonal EQ and output? Or is there any other options?
Brilliant video, summing up and demo - thanks - shame that they're not available in the UK. I'm trying to decide between three Gold Lace sensors or a Dave Murray set from Seymour Duncan.
Thanks for the review. The humbuckers don't sound great, the fake single coils don't sound great, and the in between positions are even worse. This pickguard is all compromise, and no gain..
I bought one of their pickguards. I will never buy another 920D product. Why? One little reason that I can not respect. These guys include a nice jack with their loaded pickguards but they ship it out pre-soldered knowing EVERY customer who unboxes is going to have to cut those wires or heat up the solder and remove them. They had so much solder on mine I got solder bleeding over the edges trying to de-solder and it ended up sealing up the holes in the jack receptors and... well it destroyed the jack. I can't respect a company that would not have the foresight to see this happening. They have to pay money to whoever is doing the soldering work to solder the jack to the wires knowing EVERY customer is going to undo that work. That's inefficiently at a whole new level. If they get those details wrong it makes me wonder if the guys at 920D are just importing these pickguards as-is and not really doing much of anything at all in the US.
Weird he doesn't know what the middle pickuo is; who does that? It looks like a Duckbucker (from having one in one of my guitars, but don't quote me on that). Nonetheless, who spends that kind of money & isn't sure what they have & then posts a UA-cam clip on it? Strange...
That would have to be wired so I could get a hum sing tone. Im not really impressed with the duckbucker. Ive heard it was a single and I’ve heard it was a HB. My ears heard it sound like shit!
Seems a wasted step to cut the wires, when you'll have to remove the cut off ends and re-trim/tin the freshly cut end. Just take the wires off with a soldering iron in the first place.
I'm going to make a 920D comment for all of you. I have a guitar from them, PRail Tele Deluxe. Had some trouble with tone and volume pots, but I don't have time to send it in, so I emailed asking for direction to trouble shoot. Jimmy Darr personally emailed me, walked me through it, problem solved. Well, 3 weeks later, new problems. Same email, but, more solutions. Not only more direction if needed, but he fully offered to fix, replace or exchange the pickguard. He was very prompt with his replys and super helpful. Keep in mind, the wiring is beautiful, the problems I'm having are component issues, not anything to do with the 920D custom shop, their product is amazingly well built. Blows away any wiring found in almost any stock guitar I've seen. These guys stand by their product, and have any option you can think of, or will make it a reality for you. And they were doing these mods long before the big companies got on board the last few years. I highly recommend checking out their website
Sigler Music or 920D Custom Shop. Rock on guys
Great Job!!! Thanks for the thoughtful and thorough demo of what this picguard can do!
Your comment about having one (1) guitar that will cover "Les Paul" "Tele" "Strat" on a gig is why I use an Ernie Ball Music Man Silhouette and leave my HSS Strat at home. Actually I do carry a spare Silhouette to gigs as a backup just in case. When I bought my first Silhouette 18 years ago both of my Les Pauls were sold. No longer needed. My Silhouettes are much lighter with equal quality tone and more versatility than any Gibson or Fender. I am planning to get a third Silhouette with a Tremolo and set up with a 920D PRails Hotrails set up.
Experience. Those little switches going to BREAK on you. Replace with push button. Hard to replace since they're so tiny. Order an extra switch when replacing. You're going to burn it soldering.
Lol. You just suck at soldering. And they aren’t hard to replace. You need morr “experience” in repair man
Thanks for the review.. think I'll got this direction for my Ulta strat.
Man it's so nice to see someone do a review like this that actually knows how to play. Think I'm going to plop one of these into an old Peavey predator that has sat unplayed for years.
Thanks for playing clean.
I'm buying now!😎
I just got mine yesterday. I had to rework some of it (the capacitor they had wouldn't fit so I needed to unsolder and relocate it). Also, it was missing the selector switch tip, and the white wire for the 1/4 jack had broken off and needed to be resoldered. Overall, it sounds decent, but maybe a bit muddy. I've noticed that despite having a ton of copper coating the cavity, splitting the humbuckers to single coil creates a TON of noise. A bit beyond the normal 60hz hum. Did you notice that as well?
Those two wires are important Ground Wires.Hook them up to where they were and on the same places they were on the other older pick guard.
I had the Everything Axe set on my Strat. I found the Lil’ 59 to be too bright in humbucking model and useless with one coil cut. So I wired it to a push-pull pot to go from series to parallel. Still too bright. Sooooo.... I sold the Lil’59 and replaced it with the JB Jr. neck and wired it to the same switch. Now the neck pickup sounds like a real humbucker in series and it sounds like a real Strat pickup with very little loss of volume in parallel.
The disclaimer is that I play on the jazzier side of things.
Otherwise, the Lil’59 is a great sounding pickup.
Nice video.
I was thinking about doing that to mine. My favorite sound is using the bridge and finger board together. The combination of the JB jr with the Lily 59 gives me the best of both.
WOW, what a cool story! I never use the split, just lose too much juice. Would it sound even more like a humbucker if I wired it the way you did?
I'm thinking about this arrangement: Seymour duncan everything axe:
Jb Jr bridge, Duckbucker middle and little 59 neck Thoughts? I like John Mayer, Bryan Adams and Mark Knopfler tones ( examples )
The volume drop from hum to single can be a good thing, make sense to play rhythm wid the single coil and when its time to solo just flip to hum and you get a boost
I love this, it makes three pickups even better. Is there a link? I couldn’t find this pickguard on their page. I need this!
Thank you :) Here's the link for the Free tabs: supersimpleguitar.lpages.co/tabs/
Great video! I cannot find your pickguard on their website. I was hoping to find one like yours with the Seymour Duncans in pearl white. Have they discontinued these? Thanks.
Great vid! I find using a clean boost pedal with single coils and turning it off when engaging humbuckers is an easy volume loss fix . Currently using an RC booster 🤘
Thanks for the tip :-)
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@@SchuylerHemmerdinger 👈
I just ordered mine with the TB4 pearly gates in the bridge. I'm very excited
920D custom is an awesome company. High quality, and best customer service I've ever recieved.
One more switch to opt between Series and Parallel, throw in a Killswitch and its got it all lol
I have always thought the bridge pickup should be a little bit hotter just because I only really use it sometimes to add a little more brightness to a solo. I do most of my soloing and neck position or number four right behind that. But regarding the 920 pickup set, I had dropped them all as low as they would go before I put it in and then I made my adjustments to the height once it was hooked up. And it gave me a lot more control and right about the time I did that it's when the silver sky SC came out and they were all balanced and volume from first pick up middle pickup and bridge pickup. I think it's more of a personal preference thing instead of like whether or not it should have been done.
Three toggles no 5 way is a better way to do this. Example(wire as you like): Bridge and neck toggles - up humbucker, middle off, down single. Middle - up off,
down on. Or a 3 way with phase swap. Same possibilities but eliminate clutter by trashing the 5 way and moving the toggles lower.
If I bought this I'd have them build it like that.
I already have an everything axe but learned of this set. What single could do you keep in your red strat? I might more interested in that if you have a video
I'm thinking about this arrangement: Seymour duncan everything axe:
Jb Jr bridge, Duckbucker middle and little 59 neck Thoughts?
Great video. Did you try parallel/series instead of splitting the humbuckers? I am curious how that sounds. I have the Little 59 in a Tele bridge, which is wired for parallel/series. There is no drop in volume and the pickup still retains a fair amount of Tele'ness....clearly not the same a true Tele bridge pup, but good enough. Thanks
Middle pickup is a hummbucker. I have the same outfit.
"Duckbucker" is what I read. Still an HB but that's the name they give it. lol
I use DiMarzio stacks (pretty old ones) in my only Strat and always get compliments on it's sounds.
They still have "the quack" despite guy's online saying stacked/noiseless pick-ups being sterile and lifeless.
It's more important to have tools that work.
Good job, even if there were a couple of hic-cups installing it. More bang for your guitar which makes giging easier . not having to haul along extra gear.
put a resistor on one leg of the hum bucker when engaged and the volume will equal out; perhaps a small variable to adjust to to taste... maybe
greetings from Costa Rica!! Great review!! I am going with that specific pickguard! CHEERS!!
Hi Henry. Thanks for capturing this vid, esp. the wiring advice for the ground. What kind of Strat is that? I'm thinking of picking up up that same pickguard for a Highway 1 Strat, which looks similar to the one in the demo. Thanks!
I love my SD 920d.
The 59 and JB aren’t clones of their bigger brothers simply because there are more winds on those vs the Jr’s. That being said, this pickguard set up has a myriad of great tones to offer-just don’t think that you’re going to get a true JB and 59.The juniors are essentially humbucking single coil pickups that reduce the 60 cycle hum while giving the same output of a larger humbucking pick up.This is really a Strat more or less Paul but it gives more total variations than a traditional strap so it’s very versatile in that manner. I have this same item and one of my struts and I run a compressor all the time to help even out the volume drops between coil change modes
The middle pup, the duck bucker is a humbucker actually. You just wouldn’t want to split it because it sounds like a single coil due to the three pole pieces on top and bottom. I have that set in a Chapman with no pick guard so i had to drill out my guitar for the toggles.
@@Davo2233 It sounds great and yes the Duckbucker does get a little thin when split but as a humbucker it’s just a beautiful sound. Highly recommend this PU config or just get it all pre wired as it is.
Great video! * A potential fix that could work in theory that Seymour Duncan could have done and tried, for a loaded pickguard and I like them, to avoid a volume drop. Theoretic possibility when I buy a loaded pickguard for my Strat. ** To get the most out of a humbucker, 500k pots make absolute sense for full power. A 250k pot would restrict humbucker output, but it will do the gain enough, to one’s liking. If 250k pots were used, the humbucker should be tamed, but the single coil shouldn’t be restricted, giving less of a volume drop. Humbucker loses a bit of output, restricted. The single coil/split in theory shouldn’t be restricted, thus minimizing the volume drop. I am going to try this and will update. Swapping 500k to 250k if the owner has to do it, is a couple solders and I like Dimarzio pots, which in my opinion are excellent, durable and inexpensive. Some companies will take orders and do it for you. I swapped electronics loaded in my Les Paul Standard, spoke to the company and they made it to the specs I wanted. Great! You likely noted this, but WD makes many and will customize, SD will just sell them and Stratosphereparts sell mint used loaded pickguards and have tons for all guitars. I will update with the company I used, but WD is great I hear. When I update the company I used, they had one price, but offered the electrics or a custom pickguard for more, but pickup price added. It would be cheaper to buy an everything loaded pickguard and I am guessing that 250k pots MAY work in theory. It may act like a capacitor, in restricted output to one level. This could be a good possible solution for pickup volume loss. Theory, but it makes sense. That doesn’t mean it will work. What is the worst? It doesn’t and the 500k pots go back in. I am thinking of this loaded pickguard for my deluxe Strat, but buying a mint Jeff Beck Artist Strat, with hot noiseless pickups to match a single coil sized humbucker to put in the bridge for more 80’s rock in the bridge. Will keep
250k pots for the single coil humbucker to see if that works. The problem lies in matching the output to the hot noiseless ceramic pickups in the Beck, so their will be no volume loss. I just want great noiseless Strat tones, but add a lil 59,Dimarzio Fast track suggested in videos, but hot noiseless puts out about 10.6K, with 5/6/5 out of 10 for EQ. There is a direct, or so close match in EQ and output listed on Dimarzio’s website. The Dimarzio air Norton s puts out 11.21K, but the general outputs are also similar, with 6.5/7/5 EQ. Pretty Strat eq, with mildly lower treble. It also has rail style pickups, which gives full output with bends. They can’t be raised or lowered like individual pole pieces, but if the EQ is right to start with, individual pole pieces are old school. Why lose very mild power on a whole step bend, or more, moving beyond pole pieces, but not rails. Regular playing is not noticeable. Recorded sound and it can be noticed easily, being more “picky” of subtitles. I am thinking JS1200 Ibanez, but might swap out pickups for full sized Fender Double Taps. Fender calls it a secret to get full humbucking and noiseless with no volume drop. Not a secret? Stacked single coils wrap the top one direction, have a spacer and the bottom opposite direction. Do it opposite side by side to make a combined humbucker and it uses one full when split, but half of the second coil. Not single coil size, but it nails Strat tones, considered Ultra Strat pickups and no volume loss. Amazing, but this was added for Strats with bigger routs. Sorry to go offer topic for a second, but for those with bigger routes. Why are we sticking old school if new technology snd experimentation works. Being a vintage freak/lover is silly. If a car, do you scrap air conditioning to be traditional? Silly! Just my thoughts and opinions that MAY work in theory. Sorry this is long. Great video! Great idea! Just complimenting something great. Stay safe! :)
The middle p/u, the Duckbucker, is a humbucker. Not a single coil. Not to nitpick, just sayin’.
I shaw have offered something different, but, this loaded pickguard is great. Ultra HSS loaded pickguards come up and have the humbucker double twin, (something like that) and two hot noiseless pickup like in the Jeff Beck, but Ultra and it nails the Strat tone, like no other. The cool thing is the design of the humbucker. When split, it is exactly the same as the other two hot single coils with no volume loss anywhere. One came up, as they do and I hummed and was indecisive and missed it, because I am obviously stupid and could have taken the HSS Deluxe pickguard off my mid 2000 Deluxe Strat HSS S1 with Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pickups. These rock, but the Ultra really nails it. The benefit, of this is I have the LSR roller nut like the Beck and the Bridge, like the Beck. If I were smarter, I would have bought a newer deluxe Strat, mint used, to get the colour and the LSR roller nut, the great bridge, then swap for the ultra HSS loaded pickguard and had an Ultra Jeff Beck Strat, with great pickups, great bridge, with pop in locking trem arm, LSR roller nut and it would be a Strat that can rock the F out and also sound like a Strat, but noiseless. Man, how I regret not doing that. *This pickguard loaded is very cool and I really like it, but will hold off for the loaded Ultra HSS S1 Strat Loaded Pickguard to come up mint used again, like I should have bought in the first place to have the Ultimate Strat, plus the Bridge and LSR roller nut. Flawless. There is no wrong, this pickguard rocks, sounds great and this is only food for thought. Everything is personal preference and I am still considering this pickguard loaded. Great video! Great pickguard! Great tones! Just food for thought, but either way, one cannot go wrong. All the best! Great video! :)
I am thinking that after taking the neck off the body that you will have to do a complete setup with intonation. What do think Henry? Also the difference in volume between single coil and humbucker is normal ia it...overall I think this an awesome setup for a gigging musician. Good job Henry
I just put this set in a roland ready strat and they are soo dark.Are yours muddy sounding??Does your tone knob still work?
I've got to have this bro. Thanx for sharing. GBU
thanks
What is your pot size? 250 or 500
I'm undecided between this pickguard and the Dave Murray signature pickguard.... any toughts?
how about to unsolder it instead of cutting
I want a bridge p.u. this exact size, that is 1/2 hex and 1/2 single coil.
Suggestions?
Hello friend. Nice video. Does the hum noise appears when yo split any the humbuckers?
I love this setup but I'm planning on swapping the JB JR for a lil Screaming Demon.
Middle pickup is a humbucker. It's voiced like a single coil.
Thank you! ❤️
can you cut the wires at the mid point and use electrical tape to tie the wires back up together?
You don't need to cut any wires - simply Drill out the Hole for the output to fit down ... That's it. The nut on the output is held onto the jack plate.
A treble bleed could help your volume change and you wont loose your sparkle. Its absolutely the deal. It will solve the problem
Great pickuards from (920D Custom)
I'm buy the Signuter from 920D Custom:
Seymour Duncan Jimi Hendrix Signature Loaded Voodoo Stratocaster Pickguard w/ 5-Way Switching and Reverse Angle Bridge, PA/WH × 1
And
920D Custom DiMarzio DP224F / DP187 Andy Timmons Style HSS Loaded Stratocaster Pickguard w/ Treble Bleed, AWP/CR × 1
P.S. I bought mine from the same company. 920D. Meticulous workmanship.
Just came across your video. Any updates and comments after a few years now?
YES! I got tired of it because I thought the normal single coils might be better. A week later I put the kit back in and I'll never take it out again.
Wrong! Little ‘59 in the neck duckbucker in the middle and Jb jr in the bridge Jazz and Blues)
Isn't that natural for the single coils to loose power? I've played a couple of guitars that do that. Also what amp are you using ?
Yeah dude this guy has no idea 😂
How does it “loosen” power?
Fender man Approved!!!!
Awesome kit which I was looking since a while. I was wondering if it can be assembled on my Stratocaster American Special HSS....
Its not a Jeff Beck pickup, its a Jazz/Blues pickup.
Look. Up in the sky! It's a bird! No it's a plane! No! It's Super Strat!
Man, whats the name of the wiring or the pickguard? Cant find it in 920d
Cool pickups sir
Did you ever figure out why you had to take the neck off and cut that wire? I'm considering this loaded pickguard for my old 74 Strat.
Don't cut them. You just heat the solder, melt it, pull the wire out, put it through the hole, reheat the solder and apply the wire back to the solder point. Easy stuff. Definitely check out their website, many amazing choices. Good luck
Is the duckbuker the best midpickup?
I have an HSS guitar and thinking about putting these pickups, what's the best full-size humbucker equivalent to the JB.Jr? Does a regular JB Trembucker will match in terms of tonal EQ and output? Or is there any other options?
Im using HSS too.. H=SD TB5 Treambucker custom.. S=SD Duckbucker.. S=SD Hot Rails...
I love it
@@charlyhernandez355 okay thanks, I'm gonna use that as a reference
Sounds really cool
Does it fit in yamaha pacifica 112j?
Gopal Tamang yea of say so
It does not, but their website has a full assembly that you can wire into your current pickguard. Email or call them, they'll walk you through it
Also, if you'd rather, you can send them your pickguard and they will wire it custom Any way you'd like.
Brilliant video, summing up and demo - thanks - shame that they're not available in the UK.
I'm trying to decide between three Gold Lace sensors or a Dave Murray set from Seymour Duncan.
Looking for a 920d custom Seymour Duncan Everything Axe pickguard. Is your son playing yet 👍❓
is it fender strat deluxe friendly?
how cute your child, you will be the next top guitarrist
Thanks for the review. The humbuckers don't sound great, the fake single coils don't sound great, and the in between positions are even worse. This pickguard is all compromise, and no gain..
Is this fit to tagima 530, just wondering
Hei henry where can i find pick up custom like that? Bcoz i interesting for the pick up set up. Thx u
920dcustom.com/
So.........how much for this set up ???
$299
i have one and sounds fck amazing
Truly does!
I was waiting for some high gain action... 😆
Can you use a lead boost to fix the single coil volume issue?
its not a single coil. the middle humbucker is wired parallel. wire it in series and hey.. you have a lil 59 with 6 pole pieces and higher output.
Duckbuster in middle
David Schwimmer voice
I bought one of their pickguards. I will never buy another 920D product. Why? One little reason that I can not respect. These guys include a nice jack with their loaded pickguards but they ship it out pre-soldered knowing EVERY customer who unboxes is going to have to cut those wires or heat up the solder and remove them. They had so much solder on mine I got solder bleeding over the edges trying to de-solder and it ended up sealing up the holes in the jack receptors and... well it destroyed the jack. I can't respect a company that would not have the foresight to see this happening. They have to pay money to whoever is doing the soldering work to solder the jack to the wires knowing EVERY customer is going to undo that work. That's inefficiently at a whole new level. If they get those details wrong it makes me wonder if the guys at 920D are just importing these pickguards as-is and not really doing much of anything at all in the US.
Weird he doesn't know what the middle pickuo is; who does that? It looks like a Duckbucker (from having one in one of my guitars, but don't quote me on that). Nonetheless, who spends that kind of money & isn't sure what they have & then posts a UA-cam clip on it? Strange...
That would have to be wired so I could get a hum sing tone. Im not really impressed with the duckbucker. Ive heard it was a single and I’ve heard it was a HB. My ears heard it sound like shit!
Jb jrs are jazzy blues not Jeff beck
jeff beck jr. is little '59
it's not
Shit, your voice is just like Wampler’s!
2.40 :) daaaaaaaaaad??? :)
JB doesn't stand for Jeff Beck
9 minutes of none sense and then fails to mention what amp you r running thru!!!
He said ceriatone amp
Seems a wasted step to cut the wires, when you'll have to remove the cut off ends and re-trim/tin the freshly cut end.
Just take the wires off with a soldering iron in the first place.
Dude they already sold this as seymour duncan dave murray they just put their sticker on it and they robbed you. 200$ more
Hei henry where can i find pick up custom like that? Bcoz i interesting for the pick up set up. Thx u
Siglermusic.com for the 920D custom shop. Lots of options, amazing service. Check em out.