Mad Hatter’s Terminator In-Fluence Systems for active pickups will give your guitar a killer tone boost

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Solderless systems offer coil splitting options, multiple voicing capabilities, top-notch components

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Mad Hatter’s new Terminator In-Fluence Systems for active pickups add coil splitting options and multiple voicing capabilities to your guitar.

The solderless guitar electronics systems boast Electroswitch toggle and selector switches, Switchcraft output jacks and the company’s proprietary 25k CTS Potentiometer.

There’s also a Bourns 25k Yin-Yang push/pull tone pot.

The Terminator In-Fluence Systems are available starting at $64.99. 

For more information head over to Mad Hatter.

 

Richard Bienstock
Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.

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