Hey everyone! For those who were looking for the wiring diagram, good news: I finally found my notebook! You can find the diagram I drew right here: drive.google.com/file/d/1MKQmvEne94yokZr4Xorhrih03FDoiJd6/view?usp=sharing I know my drawing is a little rough and probably hard to discern detail. So if you want a cleaner wiring diagram, all I did was combine this mod -> www.premierguitar.com/mod-garage-rewiring-a-fender-mustang with this mod -> www.fralinpickups.com/2017/08/30/phase-reverse-blender/ (non-blender pot version). Hope this helps and let me know if you have any questions!

Every guitar you have seems to really support your playing style. They all lend themselves to sparkly, easy-listening riffs. This is what it sounds like when you find the perfect tool for your job.

Her 6th guitar is gonna be an 8 string with a 30" scale and active pickups 😂

As much of a classic tort girl as I am, that red guard is unique and fits the instrument; I'd go with that. Thank you, Nise, for your in-depth look at the Mustang, which has kind of always been "the one that got away" for me. Those DP3T switches have some tremendous mod potential! I modded my Jaguar years back in a somewhat similar fashion and the series/phased and series/strangle options are a couple of my favorites. I did a modded blend control to replace the tone and I highly recommend that mod as well, though Joe Gore gets most of the credit for that.

Hey hey! It’s Matt, Austin’s brother. Your channel popped up on my homepage cuz I’ve been searching up videos on Mustangs. Sick video, really good to see you killing it!

This channel is so tightly edited and substantive, and the host/content creator/guitarist so charismatic, I'm hooked.

I quite like the Seymour Duncan Antiquity line. Sure, they cost a bit more, but they deliver on that "vintage" promise. They compete well with extremely expensive boutique pickups. Thanks for keeping guitar fun!

this might actually have the coolest ending song out of any of your videos, it blew my little brain

Love your playing! The original pickguard would be my choice.

Love this. Your videos are always great. It's so relaxing watching you do this work. A lot of guitar mod channels feel very daunting. This is just chill.

I much prefer the red to the tortoiseshell. Although, now the comparison to McD's has been made, I can't unsee it...

Most of my Telecasters get a 4 way switch and phase switch. I just wish there was no volume drop but that's hard to fix in a passive circuit. On your "7 guitar limit". Your music room will eventually look like a guitar store- trust me on that.. The sooner you realize this the sooner you can continue building on your guitar dream room for the rest of your life.

Really glad I found this channel, and appreciate this video in particular. I have a telecaster I like but don't love, and have been thinking of modding it for a winter project. Seeing your process and the different things you consider as you work through it is like "oh! I should watch out for that!".

Awesome as always 😊 Your videos are my favourite to watch: entertaining, fun, educational, and your playing is absolutely stellar. Thanks for sharing 👏

You're a firecracker Lady, love it ! SD Antiquities are just superior, hope you love the new overhaul. The Brown Tort pickguard looks strong 👍

Ugh so amazing. You always inspire me to play! Please keep making videos, you've got that star quality ⭐⭐⭐

I love the stock one! It's a great red color. For me to know if a shiny new thing is better than the old one, I try and imagine if the old pickguard was the "new" would I like it more or the same. Often my imagination tells me I just like the new one because it's different but not better.

the red guard looks great and Cali sounds fantastic!

I did this mod to my mustang and it’s pretty cool. Having both series and out of phase options without taking one out is great. But I found the switch a lil tricky and confusing lol. Thanks for wiring diagram, that helped a lot.

Absolutely stellar demo!

great to see you back and great demo.....just great :)

i hope that one day i could have even half the skills you have when it come to both playing and modding guitars, this mod is quite possibly my dream guitar and i think i'm going to try doing the same to a mustang if i can find one locally EDIT: i found one, time for me to get invested in mods

In love with this channel already! shes absolutely BEAUTIFUL!

holy shit...u are a phenominal player...love the tone, phrasing...guitar faces

This is so good. I only started learning guitar recently & I'm documenting my entire learning journey on here so this was super motivational!

The demo at the end. Speechless. So good!

Just discovered your channel. Great videos, Nisibelle. Informative and full of joy. Keep them coming

enjoyed watching the work , loved the original music !

The brighter red pickguard really has something special for it, I really like it! :D Fantastic Mod as usual now I'm motivated to transform my MIJ Mustang into something more "personal" besides locking the trem for it ^^

New favourite guitar of yours! I adore mustangs, great work!

1) I like to use a "bi-directional" tone control when there is only a master tone. This uses a 1meg linear pot. The wiper of the pot goes to the volume control, as per usual, but the outside lugs each go to a different-value tone cap, that then goes to ground. I like to use values that are roughly 4:1 or 5:1. So, if the stock tone cap is .022uf, the "other" cap would be around .0047uf. This gives the standard dark tone when rotated fully in one direction, and a "rounding off the edges" tone in the other direction, somewhat like turning the treble-control down, and mids up a bit, on the amp. The midpoint of rotation is no cut of either type. Works great with single coils. And if you're a fan of "pinky wah", it means you only have to rotate the tone control *half* as far to go from full dark to full bright. The tricky part is getting used to "bright" being the midpoint of rotation. 2) A second mod I can't recommend highly enough for 2-pickup guitars is often called the "half-out-of-phase" mod. I believe it was dreamt up by the late great Bill Lawrence, and was used to great effect on the older Fender Jerry Donahue Telecaster, that did a striking Strat imitation with only two pickups. Normally, when neck and bridge are placed out of phase, the cancellations created produce a thin nasal tone with a noticeable volume drop. But cancellations occur when the spectral content in the two phase-reversed sources is similar. That IS, after all, how humbucking pickups cancel hum. For the half-out-of-phase mod, one simply reduces the amount of bass content in the neck pickup, using a series capacitor (I like to use .01uf, but there's nothing obligatory about that value). The result is a tone strikingly similar to the neck+middle setting on a Strat, with NO volume drop, no nasal honk, and no middle pickup! A phase-reverse switch is normally a simple DPDT that flips the pickup leads around. This mod does that, but inserts the capacitor between the flipped "hot" lead of the neck pickup, and the volume pot. I have even implemented the mod on a dual-humbucker guitar. Of course, that will *not* result in a Strat-like tone, but it does yield another very different and usable dual-pickup tone, with no honk or volume drop.

Love my Mustang. So happy for you!

Loved the demo song and that guitar sounds ace! I never paid much attention to shielding, but it seems to work fine here. Great channel!

Your channel is a real jem. I’m so glad I found you. I love your music, that you do electronics and mod. You’re freakin amazing ❤🎸

Great update Nisebelle! One crucial mod I did in my Mustang, I found some 3-way switch plastic brackets that go underneath the 2 switches, so they don't protrude as much, getting rid of them palm death traps.

Your videos are so great and fun to watch. I love modifying guitars and these vids inspire me to want to do more. :)

Awesome track! Beautiful guitar!

I love your music. It's got the excitement of late spring early summer.

Came for the modding, stayed (and subbed) for the awesome music with each video. Thanks for sharing your work with us!

The mod is sooooo cool! Awesome job!

A future luthier!❤ full of skills

your vids are so underrated the editing is amazing the playing is amazing it is just wow

I’m always wowed by your playing and modding skills and you delivered again in this video. The 'Stang sounds great with the new pickups. I prefer the dark tortoise shell pickguard, but something tells me that the original guard is part of its soul. For that reason I wouldn’t change it.

Really like your playing style. Great video

That's really cool, nice video and great playing!

Great video 🎉

such a great video! Love your channel, Nisebelle! Love what you did to Cali! I'm team Red Pick Guard

this day keeps getting better frist hte best bassist ever joins my band and now a new nisebelle video

Always enjoy your vids. You are awesome.

sounding absolutely superb, what a heck of a tone machine! l really like 90's mij guitars a lot and my Jazzmaster has the red tortoiseshell pickguard too, it really does grow on you. I think your playing is great btw!

Love the original guard!

Red. Skystang ftw.

I like the Darker pickguard. Thanks for Sharing.

Awesome video as always, can’t way to see this channel blowup. 90s mij are true golden age guitars

You’re some sort of evil guitar genius, without actually being evil. 😈

Loved seeing this process all the way through! You put in the work and the result sounds fantastic in the demo. The new pickguard looks great and I'd go with that, however the stock McGuard is definitely growing on me. Either one is a solid choice.

Sounds awesome

Love a Mustang great work on the mods. Giving me the courage to work on my MG65 Mustang.

She looks like an awesome guitar =) Really have me wanting to finish my mustang build one of these days. Great video

Great video. And 100% on keeping the stock pick guard 👍

The red guard is a very specific "I'm one of these!" to the '90s MIJ guitars, keep it!

Awesome! Brighter pick guard rules.

This was a great watch. I recently got a player mustang I was hoping for blue or black but found an amazing deal on a burgundy mist one. The color grew on me so much just adding a new shade to my playing area I could not change it if I tried. I am replacing the W-B-W pickguard with B-W-B and the p-90's with a P90 super distortion and a P90 dlx plus I do play a bunch of heavy stuff :) Regarding the pickguard I recently have been Buying sheets of pickguard blanks (you can get so many different colors that are not offered in precut versions) and it is a lot more fun than I expected to cut them out. I used a dremel tool and ong is it satisfying to cut but when you get it done and perfect it is a great feeling. That off white cream color can be matched with anything what a fantastic guitar. and the mods sound just brilliant. Noone asked , buuut Sky blue pearloid I like thinking about that combo. now I am dying in anticipation for #7 (you are strong , I have a hard time keeping under 10)

I don't often comment on videos but this was an inspiring watch! Amazing playing and quality thoughts on getting the most out of your instruments without getting caught in the buying/selling loop. Liked + subscribed! Coming from a Strat, the recent MIJ Char Mustang is an interesting middle ground - they put a Strat trem on there! You might enjoy it if you ever get to try playing one, it's a really unique-feeling axe.

The MIJ Mustangs are already great, I played a couple, and they are great, but the new pickups really drove it into a place I loved, just sound so full and round, but articulate. They sound like what I am after to throw in my Cyclone to compliment my Duo Sonic. That guitar is an awesome.

Awesome to see someone else go all out with the switching options and using the fancy giant CTS switching pots. I like their smoother pull up that has less travel, and how they have a really smooth but tight rotation. Almost ordered the Antiquity set tonight but am forcing myself not to purchase anymore guitar upgrades until I get all my pickups in that I allready have lol. My Stang allready has an Antiquity Texas Hot strat in the bridge anyway and SSL1 in the neck so not in real need, but I know I will be getting the Antiquity set in the not too far future because I allready have a strat with excellent strat pickups (Antiquity ll Surf) so Id like to have a more mustangy mustang. They have more low end and less high end than vintage style strats and I like that they still maintain a mid dip, which is less pronounced further differentiating it from strat pickups. But of couse the short scale makes it less strat like, not nearly as snappy and tight on low strings but much less edgy in the high end. Actually hard desision to change them now that I think about it because they do have a really cool tone in the Stang right now. In mid position it has a kind of steel guitar sound in the highest notes. But anyway you make me super happy that you recognize that you can use a wider variety of switching options to have a wider range of usable tones.

Love the vid. New pickguard. 😁

This smile is brilliant) Thank you for the video!

Had no idea about the mustang difference from jaguar, so cool!! Yes please for the comparison. Another great video with beautiful playing, thank you!!!

Hi Nisabelle, I too ran into the same pick-guard issue. I have a Charvel w a hum sing sing. And just wanted a hum when I ordered the pick guard the screw holes were off. So I made my own. I copied the screw holes off the old pick guard Great video and cool licks😊🎸🎸

I am partial to the brown tort because that's what I put on my Mustang that's the same color. I also put those pickups in mine and they are some of the best pickups I've played.

This was a really cool video! I love mustangs, and I currently have a Squier Cyclone that I've been thinking of moding. Add a phase switch and a series switch were both on my list of things to consider, so I love seeing those here. I actually wouldn't mind an isolated demo of the series vs parallel mod to really hear the difference there. Plus I hadn't even considered how the OOP would sound while in series, so that's super cool. I also have to say I like the stock look. Personally I think it's cool when people mod guitars but keep them looking totally stock. It's a bit of sleeper hot rod situation. Incredibly cool in my opinion. Truly loved this video and this project.

Gotta stick with that og red guard, the MIJ and CIJ guitars that come with them always look so good, especially with the cream finish on yours, nice vid! (Totally didnt make me wanna go out and get one lmao)

Definitely keep the McGuard. Looks funky and a little wild - I dig it. As always, love the channel. You're awesome, and it's always a smile to watch you work. 🙂

LOVE the stock red tortoise shell - instead of Cali, just call it Mc Nugget

i’m a simple person. i see a nisebelle video, i click

Really great video! I love the math rock stuff that you play with your mustang. It's not at all the type of vibe I expect to played on a mustang, but the jangly tone works so well for how you play. I was trying to work out what you were playing and play along! Do you (or anyone in chat have any tabs!), I'd love to play along with the whole piece!

Honestly my most wanted guitars are the mg-69 mustang along with a 1991 epi riviera honesty that’s all I’m ever gonna want

I'm telecaster for life but I also started on a strat and have to admit, the body has a very unique feel I guess because I am a total rhythm guitarist, the Tele is perfect for me all the sustain, all the brightness, fat baseball bat necks for chording I used to get all the body contours too, on Warmoth bodies

definitely prefer the darker pickguard. Reminds me of the Mustang used by one of the guys in The Pillows.

I love looking at guitar wiring diagrams as someone that has done other electronic projects like keyboards and DIY speakers as I can sort of read a diagram for one of those, but guitar diagrams are always either unlabeled or read "Ground the switch plate to the humbucker to bleed the magic sauce to the percolator and steam the mids" and I get that in the abstract well all want to steam the mids that's a universal human desire! I'm pretty sure that's what Kefka was on about and why he never finished anything, there weren't any electric guitars around yet to steam with! This is what lead to me trying to wire the rhythm section of my Jazzmaster to instead be a separate circuit for a Curtis Novak lipstick pickup in the middle position meant to let me bleed that in for more highs as needed. Unfortunately I was unable to fully figure it out for a few reasons (the routing from Warmoth for the middle pickup might be too shallow for the one I got causing it to short out on the copper grounding tape and I think I have a ground loop elsewhere) which led to me handing it off to a friend that has more space and tools to figure the issue out. I think right now he's off at some kind of viking larp living his best life though so it might be a bit before I get it back but such is the price of free guitar work. In the mean time I am going to try to not buy a mustang to recreate that rad sound you pulled off here. Honestly was pretty surprised how much I liked it as for the most part I don't notice a ton of nuance in youtube videos of guitar demos but this really stands out!

Great video! I might grab some of those pickups for my MIM Mustang. I always love your playing too. I think I'd keep the original pickguard. I like the tort guard you got, and until you mentioned McDonald's, I wouldn't have thought of that (and now all I can think of is lunch). I think the bright red is a great contrast to that muted yellow. I think Cali is a great looking and sounding guitar!

not a sports guy myself but the red pick guard kinda gives me letterman jacket vibes like cali's wearing an old comfy lettermans jacket and happy to be home

I spent a long time puzzling over wiring mods for my Mustang as well. I eventually found a way to get all six possible combinations of two pickups with only one "off" position. This was great for versatility, but made switching between setting fiddly, so I added a push/push pot that bypasses everything and sends the bridge pickup straight to the output jack. Mustangs can be surprisingly versatile! The nice thing is, I didn't have to drill any extra holes to make it all happen. P.S. In series and out of phase sounds amazing into a Fuzz Face!

Another New member to the Family is always great too see and it's cool to see you love it so much, amazing video ❤♥

I wish I could be even half as enthusiastic about working on my guitars as you are about working on yours.

Love it! My vote is ditch the Ketchup ‘guard and go for the brown. The white/brown spots in the tortoise blend so much better than the stock pickguard. My first Jaguar was a ‘96 MIJ in Olympic White with that ketchup ‘guard and I replaced it with a tasty brown tort guard a dude on the Offset Guitar Forums sent me for free. It changed the look of the guitar for the better and I think it would do so with yours. I also would LOVE a comparison between Cali and Ariel, please! I had the choice between a ‘57 Duo-Sonic and a ‘65 Mustang when I graduated high school in ‘99 as my graduation gift. I chose the Duo-Sonic, whose neck I liked the feel of more. I regretted that later. I eventually sold the Duo-Sonic and got the ‘96 Jag and now ‘98 CIJ Jag, so it worked out.

Another fantastic video! First let me say that I am so happy that you did not name your Mustang "Sally" Lol Second, I love the OG pickguard that definitely screams McD's (so much so, that I'm craving fries and a shake just watching), but it's also got a great vibe. Last I have to say how I am a little bit in awe of the way you attack the wiring on your projects. The first time I wired a Bourns push/pull pot I freaked and ended up with my Vol knob working in reverse. But how you go at it with guts and imagination is really inspiring!

Better solder and electronics demo than Ben Crow. Shots fired… you win

Beautiful guitar! But I like the original pickguard best. It just seems to fit with that guitar. Really enjoyed watching this and would love a comparison to the Jaguar.

Everyone knows you use a Mountain card as a shim. It gives you the most range. Great build btw.

The second, darker pickguard for me - but it's your guitar! Cool project!

Thanks for the Vid was a wonderful journey....Original RED pickguard

nisebelle over here fueling my growing need to get a mustang. and then my other guitars i haven’t played in weeks look at me from across the room and scowl

With the comparison I’d have to go with the stock pick guard. Now, I wish I knew how to do everything you did in the video. I just started playing and stuff feels overwhelming and intimidating.

Keep the red guard. Love your playing!

Brand new to your channel love your personality your voice is so positive btw I dunno if you know that about yourself but you give off great vibes nice taste in guitars but I think your mustang you must do a refin and maybe a KC mod I’ve had my KC mustang since release and it’s fucking great that humbucker in the bridge

Great video! Dark tortoise pick guards are my favorite but I think the stock looks better with the pale yellow.

Kurt Cobain's Skystangs all had the really bright red tortoise guards, but the darker one looks better on yours.

Great job once again, Nisebelle! Welcome, Cali! I would normally prefer the tortoise Shell pickguard, but now that you put McDonald's in my head, I have to go with that! Drive Thru Cali: Do you want fries with that! Much respect to you, my friend! You are fearless, smart, and hardworking, but you make it all look like fun! Love your style, @nisebelle! Happy playing! I would love to see an Arielle/Cali matchup video!!!