The Seymour Duncan Liberator Solderless Potentiometer 500k is a solderless
pickup change system.

The volume potentiometer is the tone junction for
your guitar's wiring. Swap it out for Liberator and you'll be able to quickly
and easily change pickups for new tone, feel, responsiveness, and
output.

Liberator is an integrated quality volume pot and screw-clamp
connector that accepts bare or tinned pickup leads for torqued-tight tone better
than flimsy spring terminals or less-than-perfect solder
connections.

Technical Details

With a Liberator
installed in place of a volume pot, changing pickups becomes fast, easy, and
solder-free, but just as reliable. In fact, it's more reliable than a
less-than-perfect solder joint. You simply insert the bare end of each pickup
lead into one of Liberator's pickup connector stations and tighten the
screw-clamp to lock it down. Turning the screw lifts up a carriage that locks
the wire against a fixed pad, securing the connection in place. It's completely
simple, and completely solid.

For experienced guitar techs, Liberator
makes pickup changes much faster and simpler, but with the solid, reliable
connections of the Lockdown system.

For those who have never soldered
before, Liberator opens up a world of tone exploration. You'll be able to easily
explore how different pickups change how your instrument sounds and responds in
ways that will inspire your playing and enhance your personal
voice.

Parts of the Liberator

Liberator is like a
studio patch bay, where connections that can be easily but securely exchanged up
front correspond to hard-wired connections behind the scenes.

There are
two main parts to the Liberator System: the ten-station pickup connector, and
four-station potentiometer connector. The wire colors adjacent to the pickup
connector indicate which color wires you should install in each connector
station. This is according to Seymour Duncan's wiring scheme for four-conductor
humbuckers, but Liberator comes with a color-code guide for easily connecting
other manufacturer's pickups.

The potentiometer connector stations
correspond to the three terminals on a potentiometer-in, out, and ground-plus an
additional ground for bridges or tremolo systems. For those who prefer to
solder, there are optional gold-plated solder pads adjacent to the potentiometer
connector, plus seven gold-plated oval solder pads that go to ground. These pads
are much easier to solder than the back of a
potentiometer.

Liberator Versions

Liberator with
Volume Pot comes in 250k and 500k versions. (Warmer 250k pots are typically used
to tame the brightness of single-coil pickups, while brighter 500k pots are
typically used with humbuckers.)