Hi everyone,
I'm going to redo my '99 American Deluxe Strat. I bought it new back in '99 and love everything about it except the tone (or IMHO, the lack of tone) I get from the Vintage Noiseless Pickups. I know everyone has their opinion about pickups and I've always liked the scooped midrange from the Strats of the late '60's and early '70's. I had a '72 Strat back in the day and loved the tone I would get from that thing. So I recently ordered the Voodoo tone kit from Rothstein Guitars and a new pickguard from Warmouth. The tone kit includes a "neck on" push pull switch to install where the neck tone pot goes. It also includes a "midrange tone shaper" that goes where the middle/bridge tone pot would go. This gives the guitar a master tone and a midrange tone control. This always made more sense to me. Also it has what they call a "blow switch" which bypasses the tone controls and wires the bridge and either the middle or neck pickup in series (depending on how you wire it). BTW, I've installed a 4 position switch on my Tele and love the tone of the pickups in series.
Now, after that lengthy lead in, my question to you guys out there is: Has anyone tried this tone kit or a similar setup? It seems like you get some extra tones, a more logical (to me) control setup and lose none of the original tones. A win win situation. What do you think?

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1999 Strat Delux Transparent Crimson
2000 MIA Tele Transparent White
2009 Gibson LP Studio Deluxe Vintageburst
2010 Gibson SG Std Wine Red
Peavey Delta Blues 115
Line6 POD HD500

I have my tone pots wired to the neck and bridge pickups with the middle pickup without a tone pot. Its all I need.

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Bill

A few months ago I decided to make my Black '06 Hwy1 a '70s style Strat (w/ black parts and added some CS '69 pups). I noticed a bit of difference in the tone right off the bat. I own several Strats and they all sound different to me. My EC Strat sounds, well like an '90s ES Strat; my 50th Anniversary Strat sound very clean and have that classic Strat sound.

The Hwy1 sounds a little darker to me than the CS '54s. Is this the sound you are talking about?

On a completely seperate note, my home built Andy Summers Tele has the following electronics:

A 5 way switch 1.HB, 2. Single Coil Neck, 3. HB & Broadcaster Bridge pup, 4. Single coil neck & B.B pup.

Tone pot that 0-3 the mid-range is "scooped" or removed, 4-7 treble, 8-10 bass tone.

It has a volume knob that if you turn it down to about 7 or 8 the volume thins out.

Also a push/pull that is 20Db volume boost.

Yes that's pretty much the sound I'm looking for. The setup seems pretty versatile. Your Tele setup sounds awesome.

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1999 Strat Delux Transparent Crimson
2000 MIA Tele Transparent White
2009 Gibson LP Studio Deluxe Vintageburst
2010 Gibson SG Std Wine Red
Peavey Delta Blues 115
Line6 POD HD500

Thanks! My, "Andy" Tele as I call it, is very versatile. Handy EC "Cream" stuff as well as "Blind Faith," Where it really excells is the "Police."

When I turn the tone knob to about 0-3 the sound thickens, but doesn't become dark at full volume. If I keep the tone the same, turn up the volume boost and turn the main volume down I get very clean & acoustic tones, mind of like a "Fishman" pickup. Since I lose volume with the main volume, the volume boost (preamp) takes up the slack.

I hope you find what you're look for.

Thanks, your's sounds great. I'm doing the mod tomorrow. I'll post how it turns out

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1999 Strat Delux Transparent Crimson
2000 MIA Tele Transparent White
2009 Gibson LP Studio Deluxe Vintageburst
2010 Gibson SG Std Wine Red
Peavey Delta Blues 115
Line6 POD HD500

And don't forget to post some sound clips!