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Your cart is empty.A standard 1/4 inch jack utilizes a pressure ground and a single hot positive connection; as actual grounds are not connected to the sleeve, the pressure of the tip dictates how good the ground is, resulting in inferior sound quality (I.e., that "static sound"). Not only is the signal strength compromised and weaker, the actual sound is inferior because you never have a solid ground and the poor connection at the tip contact is so minimal. With the new Pure Tone Jack, the audio jack as you know it will never be the same again. The Pure Tone audio jack has 2 actual concave ground contacts that hug the sleeve on both sides and 2 concave hot leads wrapping both sides of the positive tip. Not only is the signal much cleaner, stronger, and clearer, but all aspects of the EQ spectrum are also greatly improved while eliminating those nasty spikes. In addition, the Pure Tone jack has greatly increased the voltage handling capacity while leaving a smaller footprint for those tight spaces. The new standard jack has been born! The Pure Tone multi-contact jack was invented by Dave Linsk, lead guitarist of the International recording group Overkill. The jack was created as a result of constant failures of the current production jack models that have been available on the market until now. As it turns out, the 100 year old audio jack design really needed some changes to make it road worthy!
Dallas E. Lamb
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2025
No frills, just a small plastic bag with two full contact output jacks. I replaced the single contact jack in one of my basses (Squier Paranormal Rascal) that was giving a lot of feedback when the cable would get moved around.Simple solder job where it actually takes longer to unscrew the pickguard to get to the electronics than it took to actually replace the jack. You'll ideally have a wire stripper on hand to expose fresh leads on your wiring and then ground wire to the contact that goes to the visible metal base and the live wire to the contact that goes further down into the jack and leads to the actual metal that will make contact with your cable.Soldered it up, closed up my bass, and plugged it in. No amount of playing or moving around has given me any feedback issues. 5/5 it does exactly what it was supposed to do.I'm not going to take a star away for this but as a note because of my specific pickguard I did need to slightly dremel the opening to make it a hair bigger to fit, but it still gets covered entirely by the washer and nut so no harm, no foul. I cannot imagine someone is handy enough to solder their own electronics but lacks a dremel for minor fabrication work so this shouldn't be a problem for people comfortable enough to be making this upgrade.
JEFFREY
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2024
These seem like much better quality than run-of-the-mill output jacks.
Fernando Fuentes
Reviewed in Mexico on October 12, 2024
Si tienes suerte de encontrarlos baratos, no dudes en comprarlos. Se los puse a una Jackson King V con humbuckers poderosos y a una copia Les Paul Ibanez con humbuckers más versátiles en cuanto a géneros, y en ambas guitarras se nota un mejor sonido, ya que las cuatro zonas de contacto con el jack preservan la señal y evita el molesto "crackle" o crujir al girar el cable cuando te mueves. Debido a esto mismo, puede resultar un poco más difícil meter o sacar el jack en la guitarra, así que cuidado al sacarlo porque muerden fuerte el jack, pero valen su eficiencia.
PleasantCreek
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2024
The 5 year old OEM jack on my Fender bass guitar was crackling. Upon inspection, the nickel finish on tab was worn away where it was contacted by the tip of the guitar cable plug. I bent the tab inwards to ensure a tighter connection, but with no improvement. So I found this Pure Tone replacement jack and was impressed that they had improved upon the standard mono plug design. So I replaced my old, worn out jack with a Pure Tone.I’ve included photos of the old jack next to the new one. As you can see, the plug tip contacts only one point on the old jack - you can see where the nickel coating has worn away at the point of contact. By contrast, the new jack has two opposing contact points for the plug tip, thus ‘locking in’ the plug tip. Also, the plug barrel (ground) on the old jack merely contacts the body of the jack - nothing locks it in place. By contrast, the Pure Tone has two additional tabs which grip the barrel of the plug and hold it firmly. As Pure Tone says, their jack has 4 contact points, instead of 1. You can feel the difference when plugging or unplugging your guitar cable. Instead of a quick slide and single click when you plug in, with the Pure Tone there are two clicks - one as the tip passes through the 2 short (ground) tabs and the second click as the tip is secured by the 2 long tabs.The materials and build quality appear as good, possibly better, than the OEM Fender jack. The body of the Pure Tone is the same diameter as the old jack, but overall the Pure Tone is a bit shorter and therefore more compact. I can’t imagine any difficulty with fit in a replacement situation. The solder flowed and nicely adhered to the electric contact tabs.The Pure Tone comes with a nut, a washer, and a 2nd nut for adjusting mounting height and locking the device to the mounting surface (in my case, the pick guard.) There is no lock washer. I’m not sure a lock washer is needed, but I re-used the old one just to be cautious.While as yet, I have no long term experience with this device, I was impressed with the quality and the upgraded design. The Pure Tone device does create a significantly more secure attachment for the guitar cable. Considering the importance of this particular connection, spending a extra buck or two is a worthy investment.
Mr Douglas Edwin Morissette
Reviewed in Canada on June 11, 2021
Excellent fit and stop the contact noise caused by standard jacks. An excellent replacement for standard jacks.
Jeffrey Parry
Reviewed in Australia on April 12, 2021
A must have upgrade, Just buy them.
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