Installation was quite straight forward. Soldering is not required, but in my case I had a long panel jack, which required a bit of soldering, but it's nothing too hard to achieve with a bit of patience. Amazing live sound on an Ibanez Gio GSR 180 (yeah, the cheapest one). It works well for pretty much any genre, but it shines with distorsion and fuzz, as there is no noise coming from the pickups.