Fat '50s Half Blender Stratocaster Wiring | Fender Custom Shop | Fender
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- 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. Available as a custom option on any Fender Custom Shop build. To start building your dream guitar, click here: bit.ly/2O38DfC
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This guy can play, it is obvious, what I like best
is that he plays for a few seconds, (not 4 minutes each
time he changes a setting lol), and explains what is happening
with the guitar. Many to most of the videos we watch on reviews
and tutorials tend to be more about 'look at me' then
giving us useful content. We got useful content here.
Those pickups sound really good.
Fender just keeps on winning and winning and winning...
I dunno man, they're a bit overpriced. You're better off doing a partscaster build - way more value.
Gerald West the tone control mod they talk of is DIRECTLY ripped off Gibson.
I've yet to see a Strat wired stock with the Deaf Eddie style wiring which gives series/parallel pickup combinations plus so much more.
8trigrammer the resale value of a partscaster is pretty bad, that is with top parts too.
8trigrammer
Fender practically gives guitars away with their Squire line.
So If you can’t shell out for the most authentic (valuable) model, don’t worry Fender has basically the same exact thing for 700 bucks less in the Squire series, and with a small bit of passion, you can mod it into 99% of the ‘real’ thing.
$1000+ for an American made instrument by the most iconic name in guitars is fine.
How can anyone really bitch about Fender? I think they do everything exactly right at this point and have completely recovered from the mistakes of the past.
Mark70609
So what, everyone keeps pestering about the resale value. If it's a great guitar, why would you sell it?
Fender is the only guitar brand that every single guitar they produce I would buy. Every design is a classic and even the low end versions are quality and sound great. Thank you Fender for being the only guitar brand I will ever purchase.
That was well said.
Well said.
The Strat has been around since 1954, but Fender are the masters when it comes to guitar innovation.
The coolest wiring ever!
@@0megalul309 what is the use of the push pull then ?
@@eliobou i realize I'm late to the party but, covid you know..
Check out Breja toneworks. Lots of great explanations on guitar wiring and their purposes with nice diagrams.
almost every time, I love the fender strat because of its looks, especially these vintage maple neck/ white finish, then i start to hear that sound and it just put me in a state of happiness.
I did this on my 50th Anniversary Strat and it’s all that and more. By far my most expressive Strat.
I actually got that wiring in my strat and first thought that the tone control is broken, because i didn’t know what half blender meant. Then I did some research and now I use it soooo much. It’s literally like having the good parts of a strat (like the neck pickup and the 4 position) combined with the good parts of a Tele (like the middle and bridge position. This makes my guitar ridiculously versatile and I never feel the need of using another guitar ever. Simply perfection!
What is your guitar series?
@@XIGZIX It’s a custom shop and it came with the wiring. But upgrading any guitar to that wiring is really cheap and not too complicated.
This is the exact same wiring I have in one of my Strats. I took a standard blender pot wiring and modified it to get the half blender option and the 50s mod as well. Works as a charm!
Excellent sound and description of how the mod wotks. Thanks. Also you guys keep getting better and better. The guitars Fender makes now are better than ever. Every time I pick up one to play at a shop, I am impressed with the tone and the sustain.
Love love LOVE what you’ve done with that tone control! Thanks Fender!
That's interesting! Sounds fantastic, and it has some very useful tones to it
Wow! Thx for sharing, I’m trying to understand wiring options for my first fender custom, so this helps tremendously. Guess I’m ready!!!
I've always been a sucker for white strats. This wiring is genius. Nice video!
That is one sweet amp and guitar combination. I'm going to try this wiring mod this weekend when I change strings.
Finally - I understand the half blender on my GT11 Strat! Great demo, thank you! 🤘😎👍
They're definitely going to be collectors items.
Sounds great. I’d like one of those. Love my old Strat and play it all the time. Fender is making some very cool guitars these days.
Sounds absolutely magnificent.
That's exactly what i need. Now I just gotta learn how to play.
The strat is the most versatile guitar anyway and now with this blender mod the tones are endless. I love the bridge and neck together as well as all three at the same time. Gotta look into this. And every demo with the Fat '50's pickups is money. Those pickups sound fantastic!
I'm a les paul guy. I don't own a fender and don't see any need to. I like my Gibsons. That said, I think Fender is absolutely killing it right now. With the new products and media they're coming out with, they're doing exactly what Gibson tried and failed to do years ago. literally some of the most exciting stuff I've seen in years. I'd recommend a player series or some of the other strats anybody at the drop of a hat. Keep it up guys and hopefully the standard you set will have the competition improve as well.
Definitely, bro'.
Both brands are equally amazing and they both played a crucial part in shaping music since the 50s.
I have both, play both and love both.
It's all about the music.
This is not too new to me! On my 70's strat, I had my guitar tech set the same switching up, but with no "Blend Control Knob". So I can play all pickups or the neck/bridge combo; just not with a blend control. The neck pickup tone control (middle knob) remains a tone control, but has a push/pull configuration switch for quick access to the pickup tonal configuration changes. It sounds GREAT! It's unusual that Fender has just presented this - the wiring, from what my guitar tech told me, is not rocket science. I'm glad I had this done nine (9) years ago; the additional tonal variety set this guitar into "TONE PALATE" heaven for a Strat. Great job FENDER to bring it a step higher than mine!
This would be perfect for what I do. I’m going to do this to one of my strats tonight and try it out.
Thanks for this video - I was struggling to understand how it works on my new GT-11! So obvious now! Fantastic guitar!
that guitar sounds so sweet !!
The new dream guitar, this looks amazing.
Back in the '70s Dan Armstrong showed this wiring in a Guitar Player mag. and I did it to my '74 hardtail Strat. You could bring in the neck from 1 to 10. Nice.
Well that is amazing
Every Strat should come with this wiring, I bought a CS with this and went through and did all my Strats. I hate moving guitars, but wow this is a game changer.
Is there a diagram you have for this wiring?
That guitar just sounds incredible as is, I need that bridge pickup! The extra features are just a bonus. Killer Strat!
Awesome idea, well done guys!!
I just like to tune-in for Mike’s playing 👍
Cool wiring but I'm more interested about that woody amp~^^
FENDER, YOU ARE THE KING!!!! I'm Buying A New Strat For An Early Christmas Present TO MYSELF!!!!! 🎸😜
I've had my strat modified to the 50s style wiring and I love it. I think I'm going to have to talk to my tech about adding this half blender mod too.
Tech? Why not just be your own tech? I never understood paying other people. Tech work is more fun than playing a guitar
@@Ottophil I like to support local business, and I find playing far more enjoyable than tech work.
I have Strats and Teles, love ‘em. I was starting to get really tired of Fender reinventing Strats and Teles over and over again. That being said, this is fucking cool. Bravo Custom Shop!
This is almost perfect. I would recommend that you use a no-load pot for the master tone.
More tones,AND a great sounding video...yes please fender. Shame new product demos can't achieve the same quality.
I've got fat 50s and an Oak-Grigsby 6 way switch with neck-bridge as the 6th position
Yes aye!!!👏👏👏 what a treat
Insane!!!
That's a great guitar.
Wow. I want one. 🤩
So classy
Its that a fat 50s set of pickups too?sounds amazing 🤘🏼
Look at the freeway 10 way switch guitar switch. If you need extra combis easy. Im hoping guitars start coming with this switch standard.
Me gusta mucho!
All Strats should be just like that!
I wonder when Fender will use those 5 position switches which allows you to use neck/bridge combination in Iieu of the middle pickup?
I have a partscaster with the treble bleed on the volume - it makes me wonder why every electric guitar doesn't have this feature. It totally works, sounds great and seems like a no brainer...
Believe it or not there are some people who like that money tone they get when the volume is turned down. I don't get it either. I had a 2000 MiM Strat that was neglected for 20 years so I took it apart and cleaned it up. Put in pure vintage 59 pickups and changed all the pots and the wiring for both treble bleed and tone blender. Added the big American Block Bridge and now I have a Stratocaster that I would not give up for an American Standard.
Nice sound , I tried it out in the real World and it "Feels" really hard and harsh. I found that putting a very low value cap directly on to the treble pickup at the switch to ground makes the bridge pickup your best pal. A .0022uf (2.2Nf) solder to the lug where the bridge pickup live wire joins the selector switch and the other end to ground( even on the plate of the switch), you won't look at base plates or fancy wiring again and spend your time actually playing that Guitar. Ex CBS/ Fender tea-boy...so there.
Does that wiring type have the noisless way on the 2nd and 4th? Does that way really takes away from the tone? As opposed to with noise as the other 3 positions? Ty!!
This sounds great. What amp is he playing? I hope they make this model in a sunburst
I love bridges, but often they're too shrill. Awesome improvement.
Great 🕺 love the color of that Strat, it's like... Sonic Green?🤔 What is the color? It's beautiful!
Really want to try this wiring setup? I currently have a 5 position switch, push/pull treble bleed on my Master volume, Tone 1 for Neck & Middle, Tone 2 Bridge. The Duncan style TB is not bad, but is quite a contrast from the bypass. It really would be nice to bring the Neck in with my Bridge, sometimes? I think I wouldn’t even want it on the Bridge/Middle position.
Maybe Fat 50’s “Quarter” Blender!
Fender for life
Спасибо.
You want to make a bet...I wire all of my three pickup Fenders for 7 way and switch back tone pot to control the tone on back and middle pickup and front tone to control neck...now I will add a center detent pot to do the blend of the middle and back Thanks...simple schematics on line make this possible without Spending a fortune for a Custom Shop Strat!
This is cool. I love this wiring option !!
kinda like Gilmour´s switch but with a whole marketing campaign to boost sales.
I mean no part of this is a new concept, it's just being marketed by Fender now.
Can i get the wiring on this, do you use the current pots. Its in a custom shop 61 reissue
The pickups sound good, but the name of if, Half Blender', sounds like the mane of a mixed drink.
What amp does he use .So good
Fender tone for the people!
Is this kind of like bass contour?
Can we purchase a half blender wiring kit? I know can get treble bleed & blender. Just don't know about the half blender ? If so IS it from fender?
I feel like he is going to start playing Hey Joe, everytime he starts that riff
Close caption for the guitar???Phillip Austin
I got the fat 50 Pomo wiring on my 57 Strat I tried to treble bleed it ruined it. I put it back to stock because when you put the volume below seven it drops really drastically I was wondering if anyone knows what I could do to fix that, but I love the sound of it, and the treble bleed doesn't work on this. I think it ruins it.
Can get some tele tones with that!
Breja Toneworks Series Parallel wiring here on TH-cam - OK you can't blend with it - but with tappable hot/vintage pickups and 3 push/pulls I have 24 different combinations on one of my strats.
When you blend a bit of the neck with bridge, does it cancel out the 60 cycle hum?
No since they are both wound the same direction.
Great option to have but can we have the schematic please?
I think they have it on the website...
@@gscgold where??
Next time, tell Phil X to give a review. I'm sure this vlog will be more relaxed and humorous.. Haha.
Nice review anyway.
Good job Fender.
anyone know which guitar is used in here? Or if the color is olympic white or white blonde?
does it make it noiseless when fully blended?
¿Que efecto usan ?
So, it is the same as the S1 switch? In terms of PU combinations?
Sort of. In addition to what an s1 gives you, the blend pot gives you the ability to add just a little bridge to your neck pup, so you can maintain the overall character of the bridge while adding just a bit more bite.
Can you give us a wiring schematics?
Ive had this wiring on my beautiful Strat for a year already.
do you have a wiring diagram?
@@DoktorOnkelMoe i dont remember if i do
rosewood fretboard and in daphne blue sold
Richard Lunn you sir, have fine taste. My favourite strat colour combo.
Yes
what guitar series
Is the first effect the same as a treble bleed capacitor soddered on the volume knob? Not the blender portion
Do you mean the treble bleed thing that costs over 70 dollars from Fender that you can literally make for less than a dollar yourself? And it's as easy to make as it is to solder that thing to it.
No. He's talking about 50's tone control wiring. Tone pot/cap gets wired to volume wiper and output, not to the outer lug.
What amp is that? Really like the tones!
guitar rig 3
So what's the differece between this "half blender" and the blender Lindy Fralin developed?
None this is marketing at it's best fender are playing catch up
I think the "half blender" name comes from having the blend pot active only in positions 1 and 2. They must be wiring the blender through the unused half of the blade switch. A typical blender pot just hardwires the pot between the neck and bridge pickups so the pot is active in all positions except 3.
I like it when they represent these as oh so holly custom shop options that will change the world ans nobody knows of. That wiring is like the easiest wiring you can do. It's literally a pot and two wires, simple af.
I do sometimes worry about the future of the human race. The comments here are pretty depressing. I mean, yeah, its 10 seconds with a soldering iron. Its like the guys who spend $100 on '50's wiring harnesses' instead of just moving the cap from one lug to another ..
@@cgavin1 Yeah and it's the same when they offer "now you can have the tone control also on your bridge pickup" like it's some magic. That is literally one wire.
@@Zhaggysfaction ... and has always been the first thing I do to any strat I have ever owned. They are freakin unusable without a bridge tone control.
@@cgavin1 which is funny that they have since the invention of time offered the tone pots on neck and middle pickups yet the only pickup that really even needs it is the bridge pup.
@@Zhaggysfaction Hehe yeah. Just something else 'Leo got right first time', eh? :)
can you invert this so you can run full neck with 60% volume bridge or would i just have to run the full blender wiring?
That's called the blender mod, not half blender
@@LanceJordan yes, that is the question i'm asking. So you're saying there is no way to invert the half blender to go the other way and i would need to run the regular blender mod. What i was looking for is a way to blend my bridge in to brighten playing clean things on the neck pickup for articulation, and be able to flip to the bridge wide open. So you either don't understand my question or are saying it's not doable.
@@littlephoenix1115 I'm not saying there is no way. There's always a way. But probably you need a push pull or extra toggle switch. There are so many ways to wire a strat. I'm probably going to go with fat 50s half blender on my current project. If I can actually find the schematic 😁
@@littlephoenix1115 surely you can invert this mod for your purpose. And there also other ways to brighten your tone. You could for example use a higher tone pot of 280k if you wanted. I've moded some pots to 300 - 320k range for this purpose. But that's obviously not the same as blender.
kinda diggin' this one
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she´s a Queen normally an Arist makes Art with an Instrument that is a demonstration that there is art under the Pickguard sounds really good even if someone like clapton plays exactly this guitar with the same Amp or Metheny it may sound different but think it´s not possible that this Guitar sounds not good very VERY cool The STRATOCASTER with that Wiring fantastic
What a Amp did you use for this demo?
a Pod but shhhhh!
Why don’t you use S1 switching system though...
Price of the S1 switches maybe?
I have S1 on my deluxe. Going to try changing out the noiseless pickups first, then maybe the wiring if it still sucks.
This is pretty awesome! But how much?
You only need a 500k pot or a No Load Pot, a bit of wire and a soldering device... DIY !
:-)
Eu quero uma fender !!! Não tenho grana !!! Heeelp please !!!😞😞😞
Where can I get the wiring diagram Mike?
dont answer that. :D
Interesting)
So is this something that they only offer through their custom shop I really don't want to buy a Fender Custom Shop guitar just for the wiring in the pickups it's going to cost me $3,000 I'm not a pro
But I love that sound
You can buy a blender pot from several different sources on the internet for pretty cheap. The schematics should be available from the seller. Most music stores will recommend a local repair guy who can do the install for you. Probably less than a hundred bucks with parts and labor.
I have this wiring on my am std strat. It's pretty easy to do if you're comfortable with a soldering iron. I'd guess it costs:
$5 -- blender pot (recommend the emerson's)
$15 -- entry level soldering kit
$5 -- extra wire. There probably enough already in any given guitar, but a bit of extra buys peace of mind in case you cut something too short.
Plus a few hours of actual work time.