Fender Style Custom Tone Menu
1. The Essential Clarity Package (Treble Bleed & Greasebucket)
How it transforms your sound: When you turn down a standard volume knob, your guitar loses its high-end sparkle and gets muddy. This package stops that high-frequency loss completely, keeping your tone articulate at low volume. It also adds a Greasebucket circuit to roll off highs without adding boominess, keeping your low end focused when the tone knob is rolled back.
$105
2. The Master Tone Modification
How it transforms your sound: Traditional Stratocasters leave the bridge pickup completely detached from any tone control, resulting in a harsh, piercing treble response. This mod rewires your guitar into a streamlined Master Volume and Single Master Tone layout. Connecting the bridge pickup to the tone circuit lets you roll off harsh highs, while freeing up an extra control knob hole for future custom add-ons.
$125 AUD
3. The 7-Way Switch Modification (The Gilmour Mod)
How it transforms your sound: Unlocks hidden pickup positions while keeping your guitar's standard visual look. We install a premium push-pull pot that lets you engage the neck pickup instantly at any time. This introduces two brand-new pickup combinations: neck + bridge (for a sweet, Telecaster-style middle position twang) and all three pickups together for a massive rhythm sound.
$125 AUD
4. The Ultimate No-Load Blender Control
How it transforms your sound: Total blending control for single-coil purists. We convert your second tone knob into a dedicated Blender pot using a specialized Fender No-Load Potentiometer. When turned to 10, the pot completely clicks out of the loop, bypassing itself entirely for a 100% raw, traditional Strat signal. Rolled back, it lets you gradually blend the neck pickup into the bridge position (or vice versa), allowing you to dial in the exact percentage of pickup blend you want.
$140 AUD
5. HSS "Fat Strat" Conversion & Balanced Pro Wiring
How it transforms your sound: Replacing the bridge single-coil with a humbucker completely eliminates weedy treble sounds in the bridge position, giving your Strat modern, high-output rock versatility. To fix the issue where humbuckers need 500k pots but single-coils sound harsh without 250k pots, we install an advanced 5-way Super Switch and dual-ganged pot layout. Your single-coils automatically see a smooth 250k circuit, while your new bridge humbucker gets a dedicated 500k path for perfect volume and tone balance. (Note: Pickup price is not included).
$235 AUD
Gibson Style Custom Tone Menu
1. The Vintage '50s Restoration
How it transforms your sound: Experience your dual-humbucker guitar the way legendary players did in the golden era. By re-routing how your volume and tone controls interact, '50s wiring naturally retains your high-end clarity as you roll your volume back. It makes your volume controls incredibly interactive and touch-sensitive without needing a treble bleed circuit.
$140 AUD
2. The Modern Maverick (Coil-Split & Phase Switching)
How it transforms your sound: Turn your heavy rocker into a versatile studio machine. We install two premium push-pull pots that allow you to split your thick humbuckers into bright, snappy single-coil tones instantly. Pulling up the second control throws the pickups out of phase when combined, creating a hollow, scooped, and distinctly honky midrange blues tone that cuts perfectly through a dense mix.
$175 AUD
High Performance & Ibanez Style Custom Tone Menu
1. The Stage-Ready Stutter (Killswitch)
How it transforms your sound: Add dramatic, percussive expression to your playing. We install a high-performance, momentary arcade killswitch button that cleanly cuts your guitar signal only while pressed. This allows you to effortlessly pull off rhythmic stutter effects, Tom Morello-style chopped riffs, and dramatic mechanical tremolo patterns.
$125 AUD
2. The Virtuoso Multi-Voice (Auto-Split Wiring)
How it transforms your sound: Built for shredders and fusion players demanding massive sonic territory. This modification completely swaps your standard switching for optimized auto-splitting. Switch positions 2 and 4 automatically split your humbuckers to pair with the middle single-coil. This entirely eliminates single-coil hum while maximizing pristine, glassy, and bell-like clean tones.
$175 AUD
3. The Stealth "Blower" Solo Package
How it transforms your sound: Your ultimate lead boost button. With a single flick of a switch, you completely bypass your guitar’s volume pots, tone pots, and selector switch, routing your bridge humbucker straight to the output jack. This provides an instantaneous solo boost with absolute zero signal degradation and maximum possible output for your biggest lead lines.
$210 AUD
Required Parts Description Glossary
We use only tour-grade, industry-standard components for our modifications. Here is a breakdown of the specific hardware included in your parts fee:
Premium Resistors & Capacitors (Fender 1, Gibson 1): We use Sprague Orange Drop or high-tolerance polyester film capacitors paired with carbon film resistors. These components are selected for their tight 5% tolerances, ensuring predictable, smooth roll-offs and zero harshness.
Premium Potentiometers (Fender 2, Fender 3, Gibson 2): Industry-standard CTS or Bourns low-friction potentiometers. These feature brass bushings and shafts for extreme durability, offering a smooth, fluid rotation turn without the "scratchy" noise of cheap factory pots.
Bourns/CTS Push-Pull Pots (Fender 3, Gibson 2, Ibanez 3): Heavy-duty dual-destination pots featuring built-in DPDT micro-switches. These allow you to activate hidden wiring configurations simply by pulling up on your stock control knob, preserving your guitar's original aesthetic.
Genuine Fender No-Load Potentiometer (Fender 4): A specialized control pot engineered with an internal physical break at position 10. When turned all the way up, it clicks and completely removes itself from the guitar circuit, giving you the purest, unfiltered pickup tone possible.
Oak Grigsby 4-Pole 5-Way Super Switch (Fender 5, Ibanez 2): A heavy-duty mechanical selector switch featuring four independent terminal wafers. This advanced component allows for complex, customized pickup combination routing that is physically impossible on a standard factory pickup switch.
CTS Dual-Ganged Potentiometer (Fender 5): A unique "stacked" potentiometer containing two independent resistance elements (250k and 500k) layered on top of each other. This is the magic component that delivers distinct volume/tone tap paths for single-coils and humbuckers simultaneously.
Heavy-Duty Momentary Arcade Killswitch (Ibanez 1): High-performance, arcade-grade pushbuttons (such as Sanwa or custom rugged metal variants). These are strictly designed for high-frequency finger tapping, offering crisp reset snapping and a lifetime rating of over 1 million clicks.
Premium Hookup Wire & Shielding (All Mods): Vintage-style Gavitt cloth-covered pushback wire or premium multi-conductor shielded wire. This clean internal cabling reduces background hum, EMI interference, and ensures your control cavity looks as immaculate as it sounds.