REACTOR® Passive Tone Packs for electric guitar.
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ALLHUMBUCKER BYTES RECORDED ON A LES PAUL STUDIO with
STOCK PUPS. AND ALL SINGLE COIL BYTES ON AN AMERICAN
STANDARD FENDER STRAT ,with STOCK PUPS
Unleash the tonal possibilities of your guitar without changing pickups, potentiometers, or expensive modifications. Simply install the tone pack in place of the existing tone capacitor. No battery. Two solder points - that's it! It's low profile; only 1/2 inch is required above your tone potentiometer backshell. Of course the unit may be mounted in another area provided the signal path is maintained.
The REACTOR Tone Packs are specialized mid-range filters that also interact with the resonant response of your pickup, something that can only be accomplished with a passive circuit. They are designed and built by a professional audio tech and guitarist in Douglasville, Georgia, USA.
Extensive time and care has gone into developing a system that is simple in function, intuitive to use with high tonal quality, and easy to install with minimal invasion of existing electronics. Emphasis has been placed on performance, while keeping cost, size and quality of components high priorities.
The REACTORS come in two main varieties: Those for humbuckers (series wound) and those for single coil pickups. An extremely hot single coil may benefit from the humbucker designs (those with a DC resistance of greater than 12k ohms). Likewise, parallel wound humbuckers may benefit from the single coil versions.
HUMBUCKER MODELS: All Humbucker sound bytes recorded on a Les Paul Studio with stock pups , VIPER;Provides an emphasized, very tight bass response with excellent presence. This is optimized for fat, overdriven tones.
VIPER DT: The Viper "Deep Throat" - similar to the Viper but with a little wider bottom end
COBRA:
Low end emphasis with a little looser, meaty sound. More "vintage" in
character, this performs wonderfully for scorching blues sounds with
striking attitude.
COBRA DT: The Cobra "Deep Throat" - similar to Cobra but with a dramatic growl that brings out the real beast in your guitar.
ACOUSTIC CHROME: This pack is voiced for clean tones. When rolled off it imparts a shiny, scooped clean sound that takes the heat out of your pickup and is optimized for rhythm playing that sits more like an acoustic guitar. You won't believe it's a humbucking bridge pickup!
The Cobras and Vipers are voiced more for overdriven sounds but also give nice emphasis for clean tones when used between 5 and 10 on your tone dial.
SINGLE COIL MODELS: PIEZO ACOUSTIC: As
the name states, this pack causes your pickup to sound like a "piezo",
with a very wide, sparkley sound. It complements any pickup position.
On the traditional bridge pickup it sounds very much like a bridge
mounted piezo system, but much less expensive and invasive!
The
Country Clean : This pack imparts a tonal quality similar to the Piezo Acoustic model but
retains more of the mid-range tones. When rolled off deep, it is great
for country style rhythm playing. In the higher tone control ranges it
adds sparkle and twang to the sound.
BLUE SCOOP: A
more resonant filter that lends itself to "blues" tonality, either
clean or overdriven. The clean tones are optimized at settings of "5"
or higher on the tone dial. Below "5" and the beast starts to appear.
This gives a terrific snarl to any pickup position.
Stock sound clips : Stock clips before tone " REACTOR " was placed into guitar.