Emerson Custom Premier Stratocaster 5-Way 500K Blender Prewired Assembly

New and improved!

Few guitar mods do so much for so little effort as an Emerson Custom wiring assembly. And after two years of development, all Emerson assemblies now feature their exclusive Emerson Premier Pro Pots. Specifically engineered for guitar and bass applications they feature a tight +/-8% tolerance, an extra rugged terminal board, a precise taper optimized for guitars, and slightly larger lugs to make soldering easier. Along with Emerson-spec pots each assembly uses their exclusive made-in-USA Paper-in-Oil capacitor.  These precision hermetically sealed components combine vintage sound and modern manufacturing techniques to maximize your guitar tone. Much like tubes, Paper-in-Oil capacitors are closely identified with "the sound" of vintage guitars and amplifiers. Featuring military-spec tubular construction with sealed glass ends, these components are perfectly sized for guitars, and look so cool they might create a demand for clear pickguards.

The Strat Blender wiring kit utilizes the second tone control to act as a blend control between the neck and bridge pickups. So the controls work like this:

• Volume - Global volume control like a normal Strat
• Tone - Global tone control
• Blender control - When the pickup selector is on the neck and the knob is on "10" you get only neck pickup. As the knob is turned down the blend with the bridge pickup increases. Fully turned down the blend is 50/50. When the pickup selector is on the bridge, turning down the knob increases the amount of bridge pickup blend.

Benefits include:

• You get the neck+bridge position, which is not normally available without a pull-tone or mini-toggle. It's a nice setting for country or rhythm playing.
• Blending a little neck tone with bridge cures the icy, brittle tone associated with the bridge pickup, making it a much more usable position.

You might think you need new pickups: Start with better wiring and find out what your guitar really sounds like with an Emerson wiring assembly.

The Emerson Custom Premier Stratocaster 5-Way 500K Blender Prewired Assembly features: 

• Ideal for HSS, HSH and high output pickup guitars Oak Grigsby 5-Way switch
• Emerson Premier Pro 500K split shaft pots
• New Emerson USA-made .022µf Paper-in Oil Capacitor
• Volume Mod (resistor/cap network eliminates high frequency loss as you turn down)
• Vintage cloth covered wiring
• Meticulous construction
• Instructions

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