Traditionalists, please look away now and find a nice picture of a vintage guitar to drool over. The days of mucking around, burning your fingers (and occasionally your guitar) with your soldering iron are over. You want to change the wiring in your guitar? Easy, now all you need is your smartphone, a Bluetooth connection, and the new HyperSwitch from Seymour Duncan.
Launched earlier this year, once installed (typically on a two- or three-humbucking guitar) the HyperSwitch can electronically switch each of those humbuckers in numerous ways without even taking the backplate off your guitar. All your switching is done from your phone via an app and that Bluetooth connection: each solo pickup, or combination, can be saved into any position on the five-way switch as a ‘patch’. Once you’re happy with all five positions, you can then save your work as a ‘preset’, which can be recalled at a later stage. Importantly, once you’ve set up the sounds you want and saved them, you don’t need to use the app again unless you want another fiddle.
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