I can't say enough about the Wolf Wire Ultra Strat mod, which can be found at http://www.1728.com/guitar2.htm. This was the first mod I've ever done to any guitar, and it was a hell of a wiring job, but well worth it. Before I was really unhappy with the sounds I was getting out of my strat, but now I'm getting very solid tones. This mod allows for individual pickup selection rather than the 5-way switch. It also adds a switch to go from in-parallel to series wiring. I believe standard strat wiring is in parallel, and the series option has a little more bite to it, with a stronger signal leaving the guitar. It's a much better sound IMO. The options for pickup selection in parallel mode are slightly limited (you can't select any single pickup or neck+bridge combo, which means you have to have the middle pickup when in parallel mode or the signal goes dead due to the way its wired), but the series option makes it well worth it and allows any combination, including neck+bridge. One more switch is also added (my personal favorite) to run two pickups out of phase with each other, which eliminates a lot of the muddy frequencies and sounds very bright and bobby-ish. This mod really turned my strat into a tone machine, as I can get FAR more sounds out of it than I could before.
Not all that hard to do, either, as long as you can follow the wiring diagram. This was my first time soldering or doing any wiring so anybody can do it with some time and patience. The parts were less than 30 bucks from radio shack.
Not all that hard to do, either, as long as you can follow the wiring diagram. This was my first time soldering or doing any wiring so anybody can do it with some time and patience. The parts were less than 30 bucks from radio shack.
