Sunday, December 12, 2010

Schecter's orange

I was at Beez's a few days ago to have an Orange Drop cap installed in my Schecter 8-string. This was the only size left sporting the suitable value for an active circuitry & it was humongous; just look at its size compared to the 3-way switch next to it.

Schecter uses a Supergard brand battery in their guitars, an obscure brand name this one but it's environment-friendly so it gets my thumbs up.

7 comments:

Ijau D. Koceng said...

bro, sell me some drop caps >:) hehehe...

subversion.sg said...

em... i don't have any. i purchase them from Beez :-)

Anonymous said...

hi sub may i know what this orange cap is and how i can benefit from putting it on my guitar

subversion.sg said...

hi there :-) the Orange Drop is just a film capacitor for the tone knob. in every electric guitar, the tone knob works by having a capacitor to filter the frequencies instead of cutting off signal entirely (otherwise it'll become the volume knob). the Orange Drop is a product by the manufacturer called SPRAGUE, whose capacitors don't only work for instruments but for other applications as well- amps, pedals, radios, etc.

the only reason why i have the orange in my guitars is because i hear a wider tone sweep as opposed to the default caps where sometimes a full turn of the knob would hardly yield any differences in tone (especially the guitars from the lower price brackets- GRRR...). the benefit from this installation is rather arguable- some of us hear the difference, some of us don't. the purchase & installation of the orange isn't costly; all for under $30 :-)

Anonymous said...

thanks for the reply sub . this is me rocking the same c8 hehe . still waiting for my set of string from you

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=467321307414&comments

Anonymous said...

alternatively you can check it out on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqleZh3o9kk

subversion.sg said...

thanks for the input, really appreciate it! the strings should be there in a few days' time, do update me upon receipt.