How to Add a Killswitch to a Fender Telecaster
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- This is a Fender Telecaster momentary killswitch mod and demo. With this simple mod you can create great realtime effects. From basic stutters to long delayed tremolo like mutes, you have full control while using a momentary killswitch.
This demo features a Mexican Standard Telecaster equipped with Lace Sensor Blue pickups in the neck, and Dually Red in the bridge.
I am playing through my Fender Deluxe 85 solid state amp on the gain channel.
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0:00 - What it is
1:00 - Installation
2:05 - Test and Demo
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Someones a huge Jonny Greenwood fan. Well no hate coz so am I!!!!!!
awesome! ya he's great
Jesus I had my headphones on and literally jumped because I thought someone was behind me! Audios top notch!!
which part? lol
samee at 0:04
😝
@@landonbailey Late comment but I need to tack on. Literally jumped out of my seat at the beginning there as well.
@@doctur8967 same here!
You know Landon a lot of people don't realize how difficult making a video is..... Keep up the good work brother
Very true
The effect you get from this sounds like the old Ace Frehley sound when he'd start hitting his 3-way toggle switch on his Les Paul, this was a cool idea adding this to a Tele. IMO this solution works even better and even simpler to use since you just need 1 finger 🤙
Hey, thanks for the link to the telecaster playlist😊
I get the same effect as a killswitch when I step on my cable in the spot where the dog chewed it
woof!
Great video and well explained !!appreciate the great tutorial!
hey thanks!
Cool video man! Thanks for the help, i appreciate it.
hey thanks! glad I could help
I keep seeing Berried Alive use it and had to look this up. I thought it was controlling midi lol. Definitely throwing one on my strat for psychedelic sets
Thank you so much, it works great, good video!
so cool! same button?
Well firstly no need to wire a grounding wire on the witch, it sits en a metal plates together with other components already grounded. Besides that you can simply wire one switch lug to your output jacks hot lug, and the other switch log to ground, that creates a controlled shortcut. Using an NO switch that is. Just a tip, if people want to do this mod, as it’s an easier and less invasive operation.
cool thanks for the tips. I think this was one of my first videos. learned a lot since then
Cool. Thanks for video.
hey no problem. hope it can help
Anyone knows how to avoid the poping/cracking effect? Is grounding the solution? I read you might also add a resisto? Help!
Yeah can you do install one in obsidian wire controller
I got a Jonny Greenwood copy too! Love that guitar. Bout to put in a new killswitch in mine
nice! I love the lace sensor pickups
Where did you get it?
I made mine out of a 2004 MIM Tele
Very cool just like Jonny greenwood!
When I started video yesterday I must a started like a minute into clip, now I can tell what size kill switch it is you used.
ah k cool!
Just curious, is this button an spst always off and push to activate? And you were able to wire accordingly to be always on? I added a switch to mine but it was an always off 😂. I haven't been able to find which buttons are always on and if there was a way to reverse polarity.
kiko it's momentary so it kills the sound when I push on it. so I guess it's always off, if I understand correctly what you're aski ng. 😁👍
yes, kiko... you want it always off so it doesn't connect to ground until you want it to by pushing the button... if it was always on you wouldn't hear anything from your guitar until you pushed the button...
Hey great job, i have a question, this kill switch could be instail in a Stratocaster?
thanks! ya for sure. You could add one on a Strat.
Lando27Music thanks and good luck. 👍
thanks! share my channel with anyone that might like it. take care!
Is it okay to install it to single coil telecaster,??
yes!
Can you please make some kind of a review for this tele, because I'm interested in modding mine with the same pickups and all...
Ya for sure I could put together a quick video for that. I did it back in 2004 so I'll have take a look at what I did.
+Rosteam2000 I'm working on it. instagram.com/p/BGXzpKeOr7v/ hope to have something later this week.
Here you go, hope this is what you're looking for: ua-cam.com/video/yxZQG7FUACo/v-deo.html
check out early '90s tele plus' with lace sensor red pups..
Does it have any impact on quality of sound?
no
Would this work for a fender squire strat with the normal 3 single coil bridge, middle, and neck pickups?
it would be different wiring, but ya should work. there are videos on UA-cam about it
@@landonbailey cool, can you give me a link? I've been looking for a video about that for a hour now lol.
@@saksvgm7919 www.premierguitar.com/articles/The_In_famous_Stratocaster_Kill_Switch
@@landonbailey thanks man, it really means alot when people like you still respond to comments 4 years later. I'll have lots of fun installing it :). Again, thanks!
@@saksvgm7919 ya no problem!
So that killswitch is normal opoen or normal close? Plaese reply
I don't recall
Excellent description and clearly presented. Have you ever seen a push/push killswitch/tone pot? I was wanting to install one on a les paul. That way it would be easy to operate and stealthy.
hey thanks Alan! no I've never seen that before
i put one in my tele, but i routed a small hole with a forstner bit (i think i spelled that correctly) under the pickguard on the horn... very handy place to have it
YOU SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME WITH THAT INTRO I THOUGHT IT WAS SOME RAMDOM SUBURBAN WHITE GUY IN MY ROOM!
I hope you were watching this on the toilet
@@landonbailey No, I was testing out my cheap studio headphones and micro mustang Fender amp. 😂😂😂🤣
ah cool amp! I just got one a few weeks ago
is this something guitar center would sell/install?
hey there! I'm in Canada, so I can't say :) Maybe someone from the States can answer that
I doubt GC sells kill switches, but the guitar tech at your local GC may be able to install it!
They would want more to install it than the Guitar was worth!😵
What about on clean sounds? Can you make a video? Would be amazing to hear it
I dont have the guitar configured this way anymore
@@landonbailey oh. You did not like it?
it was good but I installed this: ua-cam.com/video/tw7VIhMpoR8/v-deo.html
Probably was not needed to add the ground wire. That switch would be grounded due to the control plate being grounded via the volume and tone pots contact.
good point! I see that now. At the time I wouldn’t have understood.
@@landonbailey Yeah, no worries. It's not like it hurts anything.
Is this modification bad for the amp?
hey there! Not than I'm aware of. I use it sparingly. It's much like turning off and on your volume knob quickly. I think most speakers are
used to varying sounds and can take a good beating.
just use Shadow potentiometer. It will change everything no new hole drill.
Hey, loved the vid. Do you have any idea on how to install it on the modern player tele plus? The place you put the killswitch in is occupied by the coil split switch
hey thanks! thats a tough one because it doesn't look like there's room for both buttons. if you don't use the coil split much, it might be an option to swap it out for the killswitch. it's up to you! 😁👍
lando27music Ah I see, was hoping there'd be a way to squeeze both in somehow. Oh well. Still thanks for the help brother!
ya just not with the size of button I used. If you could find a smaller one, there might be space. :)
I would drill a hole in the pickguard right next to the metal plate and line the button up with the other buttons on the metal plate, actually easier than the way in the video
I did it pn my strat with a JM/jag switch, they're pretty small, but you can't tap them
neat,
IMHO... necessary on at least one of anybody's guitars. :P
+TheGuysYouDespise I've got it on one now, and I'm good. :)
Normaly closed or open?
I dont recall. I'm not sure if it's mentioned in the product info
Thanks brou
What size drill bit did you use
A bunch of different sizes. Can’t recall the exact sizes
@@landonbailey thanks I bought the same one. Great video thanks.
You wired it wrong. The Wright way is to get a normal arcade button and wire one post going to ground on output Jack and the other post going to power on out put Jack. If you do it the way you do it when you play on clean you would hear a popping noise every time you push the button.
You do it that way where it's just grounding out the connection instead of making an open connection, and your Pickups wouldn't be going through it so it wouldn't have a drain on quality of your pickups. Because believe it or not adding crap in between your pickups and output jack lowers the volume of sound and quality of sound.
I don't get a popping sound on clean. Also I would never use it on clean. So I'll disagree that I did it Rong. 😁👍
nevertheless thanks for the advice. It may be useful to others, just not in my cas3
I would have put the button on the pickguard so it's easier to hit it
would be easier to install too!
Killswitch == Marketing
when in reality
SPST == Killswitch
but it sounds awesome! KILLSWITCH!
Ugly switch for an electric guitar.
I like it. Anyways I think at the time it was the only one I could get
Everyone is using these its very common I like it too. Looks cool !
IMHO...pointless!
+Charles Thomas definitely not for everyone. Radiohead and Rage Against the Machine fans would probably disagree. 😊
+Charles Thomas IMHO life is pointless. That doesnt stop anyone from having a great time, though.
+Renê Couto e Silva All for fun!
muse too!!
+JONATHON SEAGULL Muse the band?
The telecaster is a classic instrument and a piece of art. It's survived for years without a kill switch. If Fender wanted a kill switch on a telecaster, they would have put one on. Fender should lock you in jail.
right after this video was made, I was contacted by Fender and arrested. I hope that makes you happy
@@landonbailey hahaha lol
@@landonbailey death penalty. Killed for kill switch.