Скачать или смотреть UPGRADES! Squier Paranormal Super-Sonic - Now You Can Call It Super-Sonic!

I recently rolled out an On the Bench video on the Squier Paranormal Super-Sonic.

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I like the guitar because just about everything on the guitar falls into the realm of being quirky.

Reverse headstock, reverse offset body, my guitar is blue sparkle, and there are two volume controls and no tone controls. It is like someone purposely went down a list of the norms for a guitar and selected the opposite for each feature.

The electronics just did not work for me. I could not get use to this especially with the controls being backwards. Meaning the bridge volume control is in the front part of the control panel and the neck volume control is in the rear of the control panel.

I also do not like the stock bridge humbucker. I think that it does not have enough top end and does not live up to the guitar’s name – Super-Sonic.

I decided to do something about that. I ordered a set of black Seymour Duncan Invaders. I recently discovered something amazing about these pickups. I installed a set in a telecaster and did coil splitting on both pickups. They are awesome sounding in coil split. I never thought they had it in them to be this versatile.

There is such a difference between the over-the-top volume and drive of the pickups in the normal humbucking mode that when you switch to coil splitting on both pickups and they quiet down – it is a VERY useable tone that is different than the humbucking mode but somehow still similar.

I decided on this guitar I would install two 500k push pull pots and then I will be able to add 1) a tone control to this guitar and 2) coil splitting mode.

The wiring diagram that I used this time came off of the Seymour Duncan website. It took me about an hour to build the harness out and to my pleasure it worked properly the first time I checked it out. Yay!

On the little 30-watt testing amp on my bench I found myself having to keep turning down the volume or it was too loud. It is really nice to have a tone control.

This guitar NOW deserves the name Super-Sonic. It is crazy powerful and loud. Can overdrive ANY amplifier and in coil splitting mode can play the cleanest and most subtle ballad you can think of.

I am even getting used to stringing this guitar up and tuning it. This is the very first guitar I have touched where it is actually not comfortable to try and tune the guitar laying on the bench. You have to hold the guitar in playing position or it just does not feel right to tune