I lost it when Dug walked in. This awesome dude comes out of nowhere and at first i was like "hey he looks familiar.." But when i recognized him i started crackin up hahah. So cool
You guys a Duncan have great pickups and all, but your web presence is not only amazing but your website is informative with tone charts, wiring guides a blogs that deal with and without pickups... SD may be my favorite guitar related company
+locomotivebrain Yeah I know -- I have seen a few different solutions to that specific problem (spring noise) -- but I have never seen this one in the video. I am wondering exactly what it is, if it's a product I can buy, or if they just did it themselves with heat shrink tubing or something similar. I've tried springs dipped in wax -- that did not work at all. I am tempted to try those foam things ("No Spring" they are called I think) you stick in them but I don't think those go far enough...I think they would need some kind of damping on the outside of the springs as well. I have heard the Diablo noiseless springs work well too but I've never tried them.
@tenhundredkills I think blackouts have quick connect controls like emg. If they don't come with them, you can buy the easy to connect electronics that emg makes online like the pots, the jack, the switch, everything. Then just use all that with the blackouts.
I want to install the liberator in my stratocaster in 250k form and I want to replace all three factory pickups and was wondering do I only need one of these to handle all three pickups or do I need to buy three of these to replace the exisiting pots? Thanks
:/ my guitar has a 5way selector i wired it to be a 3way. switched the tone knob/ input jack, installed the BMP,very similar to the liberator in the solder-less sense, and the black out passive pickup. the result was depressing, it sounded like i castrated my guitar, ive taking it apart 4 times now, and cant figure out why the sound is so muddy/clean instead of super high gain, went to the forums, hopefully youtube can help me out? trying not to take it to a tech, most techs are just salesman
Hi, I saw a lot of people who solder the coloured wires coming from the Liberator pot to the other pots of the guitar...and this seems to weird to me... My question is: is it possible take the wires coming from the other pots (the old wires which are already soldered to those pots) and insert them in each (same colour) clamp connection instead of soldering the new liberator wires to the other pots? I knew that each Liberator coloured wire as a clamp connection and since this is a SOLDERLESS system I suppose it should be possible... isn'it?
Hi Guys. You forgot to lock the springs to the Bridge Humbucker Mounting Ring. That´s the activity to take mooore tiiiiime. Whatever, Liberator is awesome!!!
hey, i have a question: i'm using a set of full shred bridge and full shred neck and really love them, and i want the same pickups in my next guitar. but i dont find the full shred neck anywhere, is it discontinued? i'm pretty desperate, i love thtat pickup :/
Do you have a diagram that matches the diagram of peavey wolfgang pickups wiring? I am about to smash this thing after spending 3 hours messing with it to get no sound or barely any sound.
I have translated the colour codes. The problem is their is no clear information on whether the bare wires from the wolfgang pickup actually connect directly to a ground source or connect to the liberator. The wolfgang black (which is equiavelnt to green seymour duncan) and bare wires were originally twisted together and then soldered to the pot as one connection.
NICE! I always hated my (can I say it?) EMG. But I was afraid of solding. Can I bash some Invader and a Dimebucker into my guitar without touching the solder iron?
Hey there need some info fast: is the BYOP liberator pickguard wired with 250k tone pot for the bridge pup? I will install asingle sized humbucker there and want the bridge to be free from tone control.
It is wired for a classic strat setup, with 250k pots all around. The tone controls affect the neck and middle, like on a classic Strat (though this is easy to change via soldering). With our single coil-sized humbuckers, we recommend using 250k pots, but you are free to change this, too.
+Robbie McKee If your guitar doesn't have anything, you'd need a switch and a jack and possibly a tone pot and capacitor. Every Liberator comes with wiring diagrams, though.
Don't mock the nuclear glow of a loud finish, Someone has to like them and I'm guilty even though it doesn't really show in my own collection, It takes a real man to wield many of those late eighties and early nineties paint jobs ;) That'll be a situation I do put right at some point. Had my eye on one of those dirt cheap BC Rich Gunslinger's in absolutely horrific "retro neon green" but I decided to wait but I might still go for one if I see one used/second-hand. It would/would've been one I'd fully gut plus replace most of hardware also. Liberating it would/would've been an good option. I'm certainly going to keep Liberation in mind for future additions plus some that I've not gotten around to fixing up to meet my wants/needs in the collection. Nice one
i did order one but i would need proper info , a clean not speedy video in how to install it properly , expecially on guitars with pickup -selector -switches .Or i will have to return it sadly
Hey, wait a minute - I _own_ that guitar! Well, not exactly. It's a Korean-made Ibanez I picked up several years ago for about 120 clams (new). No model # on it anywhere. Same basic body shape as the Vai model, without the hole. Pulled it out of long-time storage the other day (never played it), and guess what - I _love_ the neck on this thing! One of those necks you immediately take to - the feel of it is just perfect, and the fret work is very clean. So now - instead of switching it to another body - I'm gonna tweak/replace some things, and just make a fun project out of it. ...You never know.
The liberator has only 10 exit wires. If we are changing 3 pickups, the will be 15 wires altogether. From all the wiring diagram I gather from Seymour D website, all showed for only 2 pickups. So where the hell do I screw in the 3rd pick up to? The 10 exit wires are for bridge and neck. So how about the middle pickup? Where to screw in the hot wire for the middle? So confused with this product. Can some one care to enlighten me?
+Seymour Duncan A reviewer at Sweetwater said the below could you comment please? WTF is this about? "After install and hooking guitar up to an amp i noticed a slight delay in the volume. I mean the volume wont come on until the pot is turned a quarter the way up. and if you turn the volume up really fast when your pegged out the volume will continue to rise until it reaches full volume which is about a second or so of a delay. but if you turn the volume up very slowly everything works fine."
If I'm not mistaken its an old '88 "saber" (before they had to change it to 's' for legal reasons) I used to have one, played amazingly but it sounded like ass, I hope they bring back the color though
@peeblesj1131 i just dig neon colors. i own a pgm-100, and that thing plays beautifully. i highly suggest anyone considering buying a guitar, new to it or not, to buy one. or even just an ibanez. i have played nearly every brand alive, boutique, custom shop, and they dont play as well as the ibanez guitars. the whole neon color thing, yes, 80's hair metal, but has a certain extravagance to it, like an exaggerated color, just, goofy.
@therealpsp1mp I own neither. I currently have a crappy jazzmaster knockoff and i'm planning on buying an explorer in the near future. I''m not saying i wouldn't play one if it felt and sounded good to me. I'm just saying I think they are ugly. The whole pointy neon thing never seemed to make any kind of sense to me outside the world of 80s hair metal.
Okay so Im not a fan of the yellow.. But Ibanez S series have been around since the 80s and are AWESOME! Who is this hater tool? Not to mention, SHUTUP and let the dude work lol.
I think that guitar is awesome, hope they make that color available with the S 24 fret models :)
I lost it when Dug walked in. This awesome dude comes out of nowhere and at first i was like "hey he looks familiar.." But when i recognized him i started crackin up hahah. So cool
I would like to see, the volume pot itself being installed
I am building a Neon yellow guitar right now. All Hail Neon yellow guitar.
You guys a Duncan have great pickups and all, but your web presence is not only amazing but your website is informative with tone charts, wiring guides a blogs that deal with and without pickups...
SD may be my favorite guitar related company
Was that Dug Pinnick?
I love the Desert Yellow!!!!!! is that one of the Frank Gamble Models?
Ibanez S series are great guitars.
Oh man!...Florescent yellow!...Coooool!....
with the strings on, what a boss
Shyup
im installing invaders and was wondering if i can do that without restringing the guitar ( i have a floyd rose bridge)
+E-boogie You're gonna have to take the strings off to swap pickups properly.
+Seymour Duncan I did and the invaders sound great !
When Seymour Duncan says a guitar is ugly you don't argue... you just accept it!
Why? Think for yourself.
2:10 -- what is that on the tremolo springs? Just heat-shrink tubing?
+locomotivebrain
Yeah I know -- I have seen a few different solutions to that specific problem (spring noise) -- but I have never seen this one in the video. I am wondering exactly what it is, if it's a product I can buy, or if they just did it themselves with heat shrink tubing or something similar.
I've tried springs dipped in wax -- that did not work at all. I am tempted to try those foam things ("No Spring" they are called I think) you stick in them but I don't think those go far enough...I think they would need some kind of damping on the outside of the springs as well. I have heard the Diablo noiseless springs work well too but I've never tried them.
Nice job Frank!
@tenhundredkills I think blackouts have quick connect controls like emg. If they don't come with them, you can buy the easy to connect electronics that emg makes online like the pots, the jack, the switch, everything. Then just use all that with the blackouts.
Just got my SH-8 Invaders from you guys, they rock!!
Frank man...
I LOVE THIS GUITAR!!!!!!!!
I use Wago 221 connectors (placed under the pots) so no desoldering or soldering is needed.
I want to install the liberator in my stratocaster in 250k form and I want to replace all three factory pickups and was wondering do I only need one of these to handle all three pickups or do I need to buy three of these to replace the exisiting pots? Thanks
i hate to ask this on a seymour duncan page, but i'm wondering if it would work with the whole emg solderless thing.
@tenhundredkills impossible to use blackouts and liberator. you need a 4 conductor cable, blackouts have 2 :/
:/ my guitar has a 5way selector i wired it to be a 3way. switched the tone knob/ input jack, installed the BMP,very similar to the liberator in the solder-less sense, and the black out passive pickup. the result was depressing, it sounded like i castrated my guitar, ive taking it apart 4 times now, and cant figure out why the sound is so muddy/clean instead of super high gain, went to the forums, hopefully youtube can help me out? trying not to take it to a tech, most techs are just salesman
Hi, I saw a lot of people who solder the coloured wires coming from the Liberator pot to the other pots of the guitar...and this seems to weird to me...
My question is: is it possible take the wires coming from the other pots (the old wires which are already soldered to those pots) and insert them in each (same colour) clamp connection instead of soldering the new liberator wires to the other pots?
I knew that each Liberator coloured wire as a clamp connection and since this is a SOLDERLESS system I suppose it should be possible... isn'it?
Is that Mario Cantone with the Stopwatch?
Hi Guys. You forgot to lock the springs to the Bridge Humbucker Mounting Ring. That´s the activity to take mooore tiiiiime. Whatever, Liberator is awesome!!!
hey, i have a question: i'm using a set of full shred bridge and full shred neck and really love them, and i want the same pickups in my next guitar. but i dont find the full shred neck anywhere, is it discontinued? i'm pretty desperate, i love thtat pickup :/
Do the pickups come with the solderless system? Or do I have to buy the soderless system separately?
@SeymourDuncanChannel Can I use one Liberator on a Jackson RR3 to change both humbucker pickups?
Do you have a diagram that matches the diagram of peavey wolfgang pickups wiring? I am about to smash this thing after spending 3 hours messing with it to get no sound or barely any sound.
I am not familiar with that wiring, but you might want to contact Peavey for the wiring, and translate the color codes to ours.
I have translated the colour codes. The problem is their is no clear information on whether the bare wires from the wolfgang pickup actually connect directly to a ground source or connect to the liberator. The wolfgang black (which is equiavelnt to green seymour duncan) and bare wires were originally twisted together and then soldered to the pot as one connection.
The bare should be ground. You should be able to connect them to any ground source on the Liberator.
NICE!
I always hated my (can I say it?) EMG.
But I was afraid of solding.
Can I bash some Invader and a Dimebucker into my guitar without touching the solder iron?
Hey now, don't be slamming Ibanez, haha!!
Love the super thin body on my flamed Prestige S, even though it's not mustard yellow!!
Hey there need some info fast: is the BYOP liberator pickguard wired with 250k tone pot for the bridge pup? I will install asingle sized humbucker there and want the bridge to be free from tone control.
It is wired for a classic strat setup, with 250k pots all around. The tone controls affect the neck and middle, like on a classic Strat (though this is easy to change via soldering). With our single coil-sized humbuckers, we recommend using 250k pots, but you are free to change this, too.
thanks a lot
i'd probably have punched that guy in the head several times.
Since when does an older Ibanez S in DY count as ugly? fuck that, I'd kill for an original S with an Edge in DY.
is there one of these that can be used with active pickups????
Seymour is the fucking man!
I have played a bunch of DiMarzios and EMGs (and some nameless stuff :P), but Duncans have always been my go-to pickups.
What about the output jack. my guitar has nothing in it I'm rebuilding so would a new jack need soldering or how would that work?
+Robbie McKee If your guitar doesn't have anything, you'd need a switch and a jack and possibly a tone pot and capacitor. Every Liberator comes with wiring diagrams, though.
Dug Pinnick!!! Sweet!
Don't mock the nuclear glow of a loud finish, Someone has to like them and I'm guilty even though it doesn't really show in my own collection, It takes a real man to wield many of those late eighties and early nineties paint jobs ;) That'll be a situation I do put right at some point. Had my eye on one of those dirt cheap BC Rich Gunslinger's in absolutely horrific "retro neon green" but I decided to wait but I might still go for one if I see one used/second-hand. It would/would've been one I'd fully gut plus replace most of hardware also. Liberating it would/would've been an good option. I'm certainly going to keep Liberation in mind for future additions plus some that I've not gotten around to fixing up to meet my wants/needs in the collection. Nice one
Do you have a liberator for an sss Strat?
I am refinishing a guitar Neon Green it will have Seymour Duncan Blackouts
Is it possible to put the liberators in a bass?
i did order one but i would need proper info , a clean not speedy video in how to install it properly , expecially on guitars with pickup -selector -switches .Or i will have to return it sadly
Hey, wait a minute - I _own_ that guitar!
Well, not exactly. It's a Korean-made Ibanez I picked up several years ago for about 120 clams (new). No model # on it anywhere. Same basic body shape as the Vai model, without the hole.
Pulled it out of long-time storage the other day (never played it), and guess what - I _love_ the neck on this thing! One of those necks you immediately take to - the feel of it is just perfect, and the fret work is very clean.
So now - instead of switching it to another body - I'm gonna tweak/replace some things, and just make a fun project out of it.
...You never know.
The liberator has only 10 exit wires. If we are changing 3 pickups, the will be 15 wires altogether. From all the wiring diagram I gather from Seymour D website, all showed for only 2 pickups. So where the hell do I screw in the 3rd pick up to? The 10 exit wires are for bridge and neck. So how about the middle pickup? Where to screw in the hot wire for the middle? So confused with this product. Can some one care to enlighten me?
I actually have the green version of the ibanez 25th anniversary s seires, and I REALLY want to put some invaders in it.
Can I use this for my Squier Tele?
I would use more passive pickups if they had a solderless harness like the EMGs have. I can swap out my EMGs in less than one minute
+Seymour Duncan A reviewer at Sweetwater said the below could you comment please? WTF is this about? "After install and hooking guitar up to an amp i noticed a slight delay in the volume. I mean the volume wont come on until the pot is turned a quarter the way up. and if you turn the volume up really fast when your pegged out the volume will continue to rise until it reaches full volume which is about a second or so of a delay. but if you turn the volume up very slowly everything works fine."
Can you use this guitar on a ESP LTD V 50?
i NEED that guitar!
HEY.
THAT IBANEZ IS NOT UGLY.
I HAPPEN TO OWN 4 OF THEM.
i like the guitar
This isn’t diffusing a bomb... so I would rather see how it’s done in a proper manner rather than a speed trial of hokey video presentation...
I looked at the wiring diargram for 2 humbuckers 1 vol 1 tone and it says that i need to solder the green and bare wires WTF
Wow, great idea.
Robin :o)
If I'm not mistaken its an old '88 "saber" (before they had to change it to 's' for legal reasons) I used to have one, played amazingly but it sounded like ass, I hope they bring back the color though
@xxPSYCHOSLUTxx out of phase?
Was that Gary Howe
@peeblesj1131 and if you like the explorer shape, check out the ibanez destroyer.
:3
@givemeajackson ?what do you mean?
this goes in as the volume pot so any guitar with a volume pot is compatible
haha i like how every1 that walked by smashed the guitar hahaha...i like the liberator im def gonna buy
i think i'll paint my kelly in-your-face-yellow. that's gonna be the most metal guitar ever!
I USED TO HAVE THAT GUITAR
@peeblesj1131 i just dig neon colors. i own a pgm-100, and that thing plays beautifully. i highly suggest anyone considering buying a guitar, new to it or not, to buy one. or even just an ibanez. i have played nearly every brand alive, boutique, custom shop, and they dont play as well as the ibanez guitars. the whole neon color thing, yes, 80's hair metal, but has a certain extravagance to it, like an exaggerated color, just, goofy.
Dug Pinnick cameo!
@duva7000
Believe me, Frank possesses massive chops!
markv is for pickup testing only.. cool
@darthinfurnus i know, i have played with him before. I'm just mess'n with him.
Great looking guitar. S's are great, thin but still got body to the sound. Don't know why the guys have to be assholes. Hope it's an inside joke...
Damn it! Why didn't I see this before Christmas..! What a game changer Seymour! Great work! and yes...that is one ugly guitar. (I'd probably play it)
nice Frank but can you play?
How to !!!!!
@therealpsp1mp I own neither. I currently have a crappy jazzmaster knockoff and i'm planning on buying an explorer in the near future. I''m not saying i wouldn't play one if it felt and sounded good to me. I'm just saying I think they are ugly. The whole pointy neon thing never seemed to make any kind of sense to me outside the world of 80s hair metal.
Comment at 0:18. Blerghk.
sponge bob called...he said that guitar looks stupid.
Dug Pinnick FTW
Wish granted... go check out the Ibanez site.
Cant believe theyre talking shit about the Frank Gamable.
@duva7000
Ah, got it!
Okay so Im not a fan of the yellow.. But Ibanez S series have been around since the 80s and are AWESOME! Who is this hater tool? Not to mention, SHUTUP and let the dude work lol.
you no the black man who says its a cool guitar? its doug pinnick from kings x!
@Kenman540 ATTENTION!!! DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT FEEDING THE TROLL!!!!! thanx for your understanding.
@serazac25 i know right... im lovin it... xD but yea this vid is funny lol
"that's ugly" xD
dUg!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@therealpsp1mp Congratulations. You are the proud owner of 4 very ugly guitars.