Fender Half Blender
I was upgrading pickups already and i have wanted to try the half blender ever since i saw the awesome fender video posted above.
Fender half blender. Really like the classic strat tones from these pups and having the bridge pup wired to the tone pot really opens up the bridge pup and eliminates a little ice pick. I did the half blender wiring mod on my strat last night. I ordered myself a mojotone 250k no load blender pot for this mod. Lots of strat players are looking to get as many different sounds as possible out of it so the blender stratocaster is a very good mod to enhance your tonal palette.
Watch as fender custom shop s mike lewis walks us through the fat 50s half blender stratocaster wiring which allows the variable blending of the bridge and. Currently have a cv60 with a set of rose mariposa pickups. However it s pretty simple how the switching breaks down. Image is small but note the patch wire between the two pop tabs on the 5 way switch.
Finely crafted guitars and basses created by artists for the artist. Blender is the free and open source 3d creation suite. Modified 51 nocaster wiring. Been thinking about re wiring at least one strat with a blender pot.
When robin trower segued from his wah driven blues rock riffing into the slowed deep blues groove of the second half of his 74 anthem too rolling stoned he kicked it over to a progressively more aggressive overdrive sound. In a nutshell the blender stratocaster has three volume pots one for each pickup but no tone control and no 5 way pickup selector switch each pickup is always on. Half blender wiring diagram. Watch as fender custom shop s mike lewis walks us through the fat 50s half blender stratocaster wiring which allows the variable blending of the bridge and neck pickups to achieve endless tonal possibilities.
If you re familiar with wiring up the standard blender pot mod the half blender will look a little foreign to you. I finally found it the half blender that leaves the neck pickup unaltered and is a set and forget blender for the bridge and bridge middle adding in the neck. Turning musical dreams into realities. The bridge and bridge middle positions.
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