Obbligato Turnstyle: NO BATTERIES REQUIRED!

February 03, 2009
Obbligato for Strats

I feel somewhat obligated to let you know about the Obbligato Turnstyle for the Fender Stratocaster. This system is the first completely passive guitar modeling system, and it allows you to turn your Strat into its own tonal jackpot, modeling some of the most sought after guitars and pickups in history, like the Stratocaster, Tele, Thinline Tele with "Wide-Range Humbuckers," P-90s and PAFs.

Overall, there are 15 available pickups and combinations that you can use, and they're all accessible from the strat's five-way pickup selector and a single rotary switch. Best of all, no batteries are necessary!

This system is much easier to implement than replacing pickups, and it's just as easy to uninstall the Obbligato system. In addition to Fender Strats, the system works with any triple single-coil guitar with a similar setup.

  • 100% Analog
  • No Digital Signal Processing
  • No Hex or Piezo Pickups
  • No External "Box"
  • No Special Cable
  • Zero Switching Delay
  • ALNICo Pickups
  • Top Grade Components

J. Irving-Giles is a writer / editor for Gearwire


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Where is the product?

By: Anonymous coward

Is there a demo of this anywhere? Is it a whole new pickup configuration on a stratocaster?

Wed, 2009-02-25 20:07

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