Fixing the Flaws | Yamaha Revstar RSS02T | Wiring Changes (and Kinman Pickups)

A very nice guitar gets some simple useful electronics upgrades.

Lots of people commented on part one (below) that they love the sound of the stock wiring. And that's fine.

But lots of other people love the guitar but don't like the phase/boost options. This video is for you.

Part One:
   • A Flawed Gem : Yamaha Revstar RSS02T ...  

PDF of the wiring changes shown:
http://psionicaudio.com/pdfs/Psionic_...

And Boyd Timothy did these mods after watching this, so you can hear them with the stock pickups here (note that his abrupt volume pot issue is how audio taper pots work into clean low volume amps - I’ll be doing a video on this subject soon):

   • Improved Yamaha Revstar RSS02T Wiring...  

Be sure to check out his channel - some very nice playing!

And here's one from Palatine Pickups:
   • Yamaha Revstar mit neuen Pickups und ...  

Timeline:

00:00 Intro
00:29 Kinman vs Stock Pickups
01:15 Stock Wiring
01:54 Easy Mods
02:02 Middle Position Sweetening
03:21 '50s Wiring
03:54 New Wiring/Pots
04:15 New Position One
04:26 New Position Five
04:33 New Position Three
04:47 New Position Two
06:27 New Position Four
07:33 New Wiring Layout
08:03 Playing Tests Explained
08:35 Stock Position One
08:54 New Position One
09:22 Stock Position Two
09:36 New Position Two
10:07 Stock Position Three
10:25 New Position Three
11:07 Stock Position Four
11:22 New Position Four
11:39 Stock Position Five
12:03 New Position Five
12:53 Stock Treble Bleed
13:15 New '50s Wiring
13:42 Logan Playing (no talking)

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These are things I get asked about a lot :

Amp Tech Gear Used :

Hakko FX-951 soldering station
Weller SPG 80L soldering iron (chassis work)
Rigol DS1054Z digital oscilloscope
Thsinde 18B+ digital multimeters
Kester 60/40 solder

Below are things that make this channel possible that people don’t usually think about. If any of these companies want to send me new and wonderful toys, I’m open to that. I can’t take free stuff when it comes to the amps I review, etc, but for the stuff below, bribe away!

Microphones/Audio Equipment :

Guitar Amps : Usually a Shure SM57 (exceptions noted in videos)
Bass Amps : Sometimes a Shure Beta 52, other times just an SM57
Voiceover Bench : sE Audio sE8 (small diaphragm condenser)
Voiceover Streaming : Shure SM57 with shockmount and windscreen
Voiceover Mic Arms : Elgato Wave Mic arms
Guitar Mic Stand : Gator Frameworks short weighted base stand with boom
Mic Cables and Guitar Cables : Mogami/Neutrik
Mic pre : MOTU M2
DAW : Logic Pro X on MacBook Pro 16 running Sonoma 14.0
Plugins : No effects other than level matching/normalization unless a recording
specifically has reverb etc added in post (rare, various Waves plugins)
Monitors : Yamaha HS7s
Monitor Stands : Gator Frameworks Desktop Clamp-On Stands
Monitor Isolation Mounts : IsoAcoustics Iso-Puck Minis
Headphones : Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro (main)
Headphones : Sony MDR-7506 (alternate)

Video Equipment :

Camera : Sony ZVE-10 with SmallRig Cage (main)
Lens : Sigma f2.8 18-50mm (main)
Lens : Sony ZVE10 kit lens (rarely used)
B Camera : Apple iPhone 13 Pro (rarely used)
Tripod : SmallRig 71” with SmallRig Fluid Video Head
Streaming Mount : Elgato Master Mount S with SmallRig Ballhead
Bench Light : SmallRig RC 120D
Bench Light Diffusor : SmallRig Lantern Softbox
Bench C-Stands (light and overhead camera) : Neewer Pro SS Heavy Duty
Streaming Light : SmallRig RC 120B
Streaming Diffusor : SmallRig Parabolic Softbox
Streaming Light Mount : SmallRig 148CM Wall Mount Boom with Triangle Base
Various Other Lights : Neewer LED Panels with Neewer Softboxes

Video Software :

Davinci Resolve 18.6
Paul Leeming LUTs
Adobe Illustrator 28.0
Adobe Photoshop 25.0
Ecamm Live (streaming software)