Stratocaster Grease Bucket Tone Wiring Schematics

Fender says that this tone control acts differently because it rolls off the high frequencies but does not add bass.

Stratocaster grease bucket tone wiring schematics. This month we re taking a look at the fender greasebucket tone circuit introduced in 2005 on several guitars in the highway one series as well as in various custom shop stratocaster models. Listed in the wiring diagrams as highway 1 texas telecaster upgrade 2005 very different from the previous design you have to look at the parts list to see what they. To my ear when you roll the tone knob back it doesn t get as dark or muddy as normal tele wiring. So i removed the greasebucket tone circuit and rewired the pots using the standard stratocaster wiring with a 022 capacitor just like on the american standard strat and voila the problem was solved.

This modification is called the greasebucket tone circuit and it was introduced by fender in 2005 installed in some of their highway one guitars and some of their custom shop stratocaster models. What does a fender greasebucket tone circuit actually do. This is my personal comparison of a normal guitar tone circuit with the fender greasebucket tone control. The greasebucket name.

I took it out of my am spec tele and went with the 60 s wiring. The fender american special stratocaster seen above in a lovely sonic blue finish features the fender greasebucket tone circuit. I can t add much other than i didn t like it. My neck pickup sounded.

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I received an email asking what this specific circuit does and am answering it with an article on the subject. For the test i used my 1991 american standard stratocaster with dimarzio hs 2 pickups.