Freeway Switch 5B5-01 Black & White Tip

I may sound like I´m a salesman working at Freeway, but I´m not.

This is buy far the most genious thing you can have even near a Stratocaster! It transforms one of the best guitars ever made to the "two" best guitars ever made! That if the strat you put it in is a good one. ;)

I have it in a Fender American 60´s Strat with Lundgren Formvar 50´s pickups and that guitar is now the best I´ve ever had - honestly.

The switch is quite hard the solder compared to a regular one. So if you're not familiar with soldering this probably isn't the first thing you'd try. But the instructions on Freeway website is very good though.

Came with both black and white switch tip which is nice.

I installed the Freeway Switch on my Sterling by Music Man Cutlass CT50 SSS, which already clicks all the boxes for me in terms of what makes an S-type guitar an amazing instrument, and the results were awesome as expected. All 5 extra positions complement the classic 5 Strat combinations perfectly, and if someone doesn't know that there's a new pickup switch on my guitar, they simply cannot see it (it's that cleverly constructed, and easily used on the fly). If you love the feel of your S-type instrument and the sound coming from its single coil pickups, then it's like getting a new guitar actually (which has the same features and feel that you love, but different sounds), and for a ridiculous amount of money.

In total, the 5 new combinations you can get are the following:
a) a warm and thick neck pickup tone (neck >> middle in series)
b) a twangy Tele-like middle combo (neck + bridge in parallel)
c) a more aggressive combo reminiscent of a Les Paul middle selection (neck >> bridge in series)
d) an open sounding combo which is close to the 2nd position of the Strat, with a touch of mellowness coming from the neck pickup (neck + middle + bridge in parallel)
e) a thicker bridge pickup tone, reminiscent of a bridge humbucker (middle >> bridge in series)

The main reason I decided to buy the 5B5-01 was because I wanted to have the option to have a bit more body on the bridge pickup for some of my overdriven tones, and I can get exactly that by the (e) selection. I also love to have the ability to use selections (a) and (b) every once in a while (for Strat lovers who like Teles but don't want to spend money buying one, that (b) selection will totally get you a piece of that T flavor you like), and finally although I don't have any reasons to use (c) and (d) that much, it's not bad to have them at my disposal as well.

Overall, the unit is very well made and highly recommended. Easily the best Strat pickup switching system out there.