Great Gazoo
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Yay! Sorry can’t help but read it as “Onion”, lovely guitar, enjoy my friend.
Think of it as Orion Slave Girl Green - from Star Trek.
Yay! Sorry can’t help but read it as “Onion”, lovely guitar, enjoy my friend.
That would be great, ta.There’s a YouTube video with JM’s guitar tech that I think covers this.
If I can find it I’ll upload it
That would be great, ta.
Think I need to check one out in person....just picked up another Fuzz Face replica and got the itch for some single coil action.
Hello brothers, my friend got a SS Tungsten recently ( the only one in Lebanon so far) and he's very happy with it but his only complaint is that when he rolls the volume down there's a treble loss, so I guess that's by design and the resistor on the volume pot is adding to this effect ( his estimation), so he's thinking of adding a treble bleed capacitor as a remedy...
So how many of you did this/ left it stock?
Do you recommend this?
Thx for your suggestions in advance.
Hello brothers, my friend got a SS Tungsten recently ( the only one in Lebanon so far) and he's very happy with it but his only complaint is that when he rolls the volume down there's a treble loss, so I guess that's by design and the resistor on the volume pot is adding to this effect ( his estimation), so he's thinking of adding a treble bleed capacitor as a remedy...
So how many of you did this/ left it stock?
Do you recommend this?
Thx for your suggestions in advance.
r/whooshThx guys, the tone is not the issue here its the treble loss when turning down the volume, he's very happy with the sound when the volume is on 10 but below 8 it's losing the treble frequency, it's the usual problem with the old wiring I guess.
Been fortunate enough to had play 5 Silver Sky's (including mine) in the last 6 months and have a couple of thoughts about it. First will accept I’m pretty nerdy and OCD almost diagnosed (well, not really but you get my point).
I have looked for:
With that said (I swear I’m not been biased) my SS is the cleanest most almost-immaculate I have seen vs the other 4, so I guess there are really magic ones out there. I’m totally honest by saying that I’m not a PRS fan (even by loving my SS) that masks any flaw their guitars may have. In fact I think based on their reputation and prices, it’s fair to say what we really see in real life.
- Tone: Same as in feel, pretty similar in tone overall. About this, even tho it is close to the same each has their respective flavor if you look for it without loosing the "classic" Silver Sky well know by now.
- Feel: Its 100% true that PRS found a way to replicate the “magic” as was suggested by John himself. Didn’t find any significant worth mention differences in this regard (except about factory setup).
- Overall finish: here is where I have my biggest findings. Unfortunately not all are finished with the same “care” or attention to detail. In some cases I saw real questionable job on fret ends, necks with close to no lacquer (it was so different that I thought it was a new natural neck approach), details on the bone nut cavity and pretty different setups overall straight from factory. Maybe the quality is having a hit by trying to maintain the market fulfill as quick as possible with the demand? I know that not every owner/looker is as nerdy but still, this things were pretty obvious.
Will post some pics of this guitars finishes compared to mine as reference to prove its inconsistencies.
Thinking about adding a mini toggle as an neck on option.
So I can get 2 more settings - bridge/neck and all 3 pickups.
While I have used blender knobs wiring before I prefer to have a mini toggle as I don't want a master tone.
What bridge did you use?I added a recessed neck pickup switch *like gilmours* in mine.
also a back pickguard, and new knobs.. and a new bridge...
What bridge did you use?
anybody have pix of the inside wiring?
I'm wondering if there's anything different in how they wired these to make them sound so good?
Lol! That's my guitar and pics!na it's normal.
the only thing different is they tie off the wires to the side with a plastic zip tie anchor because the routing is different than a strat.
also the volume potentiometer is 300k instead of 250k but they attach a resistor to bring it down just under 300k. I've seen them with 2.7M and 3.3M resistors... it all depends how the pot reads. I think I remember mine reading out to be 278k w/ the resistor and 306k w/o
other than that which is a rather normal modification for people wanting to brighten up a dark guitar or dark pickups (I have a really dark sounding LP and I use 550k (reads 548k) volume pots in my neck and then I'll use a resistor to drop the bridge to around 515k...
not my pics... just a google search of "PRS silver sky guts"
ahaha sorry mate... thanks for being the first thing on google silver sky guts!Lol! That's my guitar and pics!