Pure Tone Mono Multi-Contact 1/4 inch Output Jack - Nickel

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.

Price is good, although they should include one additional mounting nut for a flush fit. Holds the cable tightly, and is no different to install than any other jack of this type. Very high quality and fit in my guitar with no problems.

Ive bought a lot of these over the years. I use them in all 17 of my personal guitars, I use them in all of my customers guitars, and I use them in every guitar I build to sell.Very easy solder. Always gives a secure connection. Easy to install.

While the name of these irks me somewhat (these do not in any way make your tone more "pure", any more than gold-plated snake oil cables), they are well made and do a fantastic job locking the cable into your guitar.I had an issue with a guitar cutting out every now and then when bumping the cable - this fixed it right up in a five minute repair!

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.

I'm sure this is a great output jack, but just a couple of things which I didn't love...Firstly, it grabs onto the cable very well. Maybe even too well. The first time I plugged it in, I had some minor difficulty pulling the cable out. Repeating several times worked it in, but still requires more effort to remove the cable. The other thing - the package only includes one nut. Very frustrating, since none of my old nuts fit. The seller's comment that they don't see why they should ship 2 nuts because they don't know of anyone else who does (see Q&A) really rubs me the wrong way. I know a nut is cheap, but then I'll have to make time and go to the hardware store, look around for a same size nut to put on the jack that they could have just added? Instead, you get an output jack that sticks out. Aargh.

Great output jack for any guitar.. It really grabs onto your cable and locks that bad boy in there.. I will be replacing the jack on every guitar I own with one of these.. Easily the best output jack I've ever used.. I can't recommend these enough.. If you ain't using one of these jacks then you are not having the best guitar playing experience that you could be having.. Stop worrying about your jack making bad contact and your cable crackling or even coming unplugged mid song.. These jacks cost less than a bigmac and are amazing..

Quality looks good, good solid connection, I did have to take a round file and slightly enlarge the holes to make them fit, very happy with this product.