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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:05 pm
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I'm curious as to where the name "greasebucket" comes from ???


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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:48 am
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Hey Stratheads-

It's called a Grease Bucket because it looks like an old metal grease bucket with a wire handle - Look under the hood....

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:42 am
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357mag wrote:
How do I remove this "greasebucket circuitry"? Can I simply desolder all the resistors and caps attached to the pots and then it will be a normal Strat?

Or would it have to be re-wired as well?
Did you remove the greasebucket circuit and if so would you explain the steps you took? Thanks.


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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:08 pm
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Before removing a Greasebucket circuit listen carefully to what it actually does (it's kind of a major modification).
I own two Custom Shop Strat Pro's with the Greasebucket circuit and samarium cobalt noiseless pickups. For my tastes this is the best electronics package I've used in a three pickup single coil guitar. The tone controls on these guitars do exactly what Fender claims: roll off highs without adding mud. For many years I never touched the tone controls on my Strats, leaving them fully clockwise (10). Now I usually start a gig with both (neck and bridge) tone controls at halfway and turn them up while playing solos, then back to half when comping.
The neck pickup sounds almost L5-jazzy with the tone control all the way down. The bridge pickup has a great melodic sound with the tone control at half, clean or distorted. In spite of my "L5-jazzy" comment I would not consider the circuit to sound mellow with these pickups at any settings. Note that on these guitars the bridge tone control at 10 has a slight detente that seems to switch out the control completely. I'm not sure I need that feature, the less-than-max tone settings are the useful ones.
I recently compared these guitars to my mid-70's Strat with Lace Gold pickups and standard tone circuit: back to the closet it went (it still is great for recording with the tone controls at 10), the Strat Pro won. I suspect the pickups are a huge factor in how this circuit sounds. What I can no longer do is get the Jeff Beck bridge pickup "vocal" tone achieved by backing off the volume about 2-3 points, but again this may be due to the samarium cobalt pickups.
My perspective: started guitar in 1964 (I was born with a Strat in my hand, Mom was pissed because I didn't remove the whammy bar) and played full time pro for 20 years, the last 20 in part-time involuntary retirement. My comments apply for all amps and software I've played through, clean through high gain settings.


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Post subject: Re: What is grease bucket tone circuitry?
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 3:18 pm
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Hi,

Could anyone tell me a good place to order these components online (i.e. caps and resistors)?


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Martin


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Post subject: Re: What is grease bucket tone circuitry?
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 1:09 am
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How do you describe "a good place"?

There are myriads of online stores for guitar electronic parts, and also general electronics webstores sell caps&resistors.
*Good* is very different, depending on if you live in the US or Europe or Australia...

Locally, you can ask any guitar shop, or guitar (or electronics) repair workshops.


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Post subject: Re: What is grease bucket tone circuitry?
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:01 pm
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I live in Europe - so fast, cheap international shipping is part of "Good" :-)
But a wide selection of quality components (so I can find everything in one place) would also be nice.

Martin


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Post subject: Re: What is grease bucket tone circuitry?
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 11:40 pm
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Thomann and MusicStore in Germany, Allparts in the UK, Uraltone in Finland - just to name a few. Good shops in the Netherlands and Sweden, too. Google helps.


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Post subject: Re: What is grease bucket tone circuitry?
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:12 am
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My '12 Telebration Empress Telecaster has the 'Greasebucket' circuit and it has tremendous sound !!

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Granted, the lightweight Empress Wood body has amazing Resonance all by itself, but the 'Greasebucket' circuit definitely enhances it.

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Post subject: Re: What is grease bucket tone circuitry?
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 5:03 pm
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Great - thanks! :-)

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Post subject: Re: What is grease bucket tone circuitry?
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 3:32 pm
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Just one more question:

I see that caps come in different voltages. I see that Warmoth for instance sell 0.022uf cap @ 50 volt, but the 0.1uf cap is 25 volt. Is this what I need or should all the caps be at the same voltage?

http://www.warmoth.com/Capacitors-C66.aspx


Martin


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