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This
listing is for the Quintet Module with built-in 5-position rotary switch. It
does not have a bypass setting. You will need a separate switch to bypass it.
If you want the version with a 6-position rotary switch, including a bypass
position, you will find that for sale in our eBay store. We also have our
Quintet Module with no switch, for use with either a 5-position Strat switch,
your own rotary switch, or if you only want to use one position, as the curve
for your tone control, so that instead of dialing back the treble, you dial in
a specific frequency response curve. All are available on our eBay store.
The THD Quintet Tone Curve Module is a
special type of tone control designed to install directly into any electric
guitar or bass with passive magnetic pickups. The Quintet will give 5 new
sounds from each of your existing pickups combinations. As it interacts
differently with different pickups, it will give a different sound to a
humbucking pickup than to a single-coil, and different sounds to two different
pickups of the same type (single-coil, humbucking, etc...) if they are of
different designs or have a different number of turns of wire.
This version, the Quintet with a
built-in 5-position rotary switch, gives the 5 tones only. Bypass, if required,
would have to be accomplished by an external switch, such as a push-pull pot
for the volume control. This is useful so that you can pre-set the Quintet for
the sound you want, and then just use the push-pull pot to activate it.
Please Note: The Quintet will not work
properly with active or Piezo pickups. (Piezo pickups are used in most acoustic
guitars and in the bridges of some solid-body and hollow-body electric guitars
to simulate the sound of an acoustic guitar.)
There are five different circuits in the
Quintet, each with its own effect on your pickups.
The Quintet's
5 Sounds:
The 1st sound reduces the bass,
gives a slight boost at about 700Hz, and a cut at about 2000Hz. This setting is
useful for making a pickup sound a bit brighter and clearer, like taking a
pickup from series to parallel coil wiring. It also makes a neck pickup more
useful for leads.
The 2nd sound gives a boost at
about 500Hz, and a cut at about 1800Hz, with a slight treble reduction above
about 4000Hz. This setting will make a Strat® pickup sound more like a
Filter'Tron™ type.
The 3rd sound gives a substantial
boost at about 400Hz, and a cut at about 1200Hz, with a slight rise at about
2100Hz and a slight treble reduction above about 3900Hz. This setting has a
huge effect on the midrange character. It will make a Strat® pickup sound more
like a Telecaster in-between setting.
The 4th sound gives a boost at
about 300Hz, and a substantial cut at about 800Hz, with a slight rise at about
2200Hz and a slight treble reduction above about 4500Hz. It will make a
humbucker pickup sound more like the in-between setting on a guitar with two P-90
pickups.
The 5th sound reduces the treble,
gives a boost at about 320Hz, and a cut at about 1200Hz, a small rise at
2200Hz, and a drop off as the frequencies go up from there. This setting makes
most bridge pickups sound like they are in the neck position.
(Please note, all frequencies listed are
approximate and will vary among different pickups and pickup types.)
The following is from the Guitar Player
Magazine review of our Quintet:
"The THD Quintet is designed to
work in conjunction with your guitar’s pickups to deliver varying timbres. The
Quintet is as passive as passive gets.
"With my Telecaster running through
a Reverend Goblin 5-15, I began clicking through the Quintet’s tones. Setting
One is the darkest, as it takes a rear position single-coil and fattens it up
to an almost humbucker-like butteryness. For Strat players who are scared of
honking on their rear-pickup this is a godsend, as it’s almost like changing
pickups. With humbuckers, I found this position to be useable, but a tad wooly.
Setting Four gives you a boost around 300Hz, a substantial cut around 800Hz,
and a slight treble reduction above 4.5kHz. THD likens this tone to the
in-between setting on a dual P-90 equipped guitar, and that’s a very fair description.
I found it usable with all of my guitars, as it fattened up single-coils without
sacrificing any of their inherent airiness, as well as giving humbuckers some added
beef—albeit lean beef. Pretty neat. As you keep clicking, the tones get progressively
skinnier, adding some Filter ’Tron-like characteristics, as well as some good
old-fashioned brightening.
"The Quintet is subtle, and as
simple as it seems, you can actually find yourself dicking with it for hours—at
least I did. The shades it imparts make it a studio tool par excellence, as you
can change the character of your guitar in a very natural and organic way. In
fact, I would dial-up a setting on the Quintet, and adjust my amp’s EQ
accordingly to get just the right fit. That, my friends, is tone shaping in the
truest sense of the word."
- Guitar Player Magazine, 2008
All
THD products are hand-made in the USA.