blues specials for sundown

[whitestrat]

Originally Posted by candid_x

I did exactly that, testing with/without a fresh battery. But ya know, I don't play high gain or very high volumes so the difference isn't going to be very dramatic anyway. As Beej pretty much predicted, the SC does work with the Fralins, even if not as well as with the stock pups. It's possible that the SC could be dialed in a bit more, something the tech was supposed to do but didn't bother with. It's fine though.

Because I use the Silo Spec for relatively lower gain tones, I've realised that the shielding of the guitar itself is good enough NOT to require the Silent Circuit at all. So I usually don't bother putting a battery in. hahahaha...

[candid_x]

Lionel, I hear ya. For quite a while I stopped feeding mine batteries too. Not only did I not require the use of it, I thought it was robbing some tone from the rig. Until one day when I decided to A/B with and without a 9v, and came to the surprising conclusion that I liked the tone better with it in; it sounded somehow more refined. How much of that was pure imagination? I honestly don't know. It's not that important either way to me. But if I was running through a kazzilion pedals, still playing smokey bars with neon and fluorescent lighting, and plugged into an already overloaded and/or dirty circuit, then I suspect the SC would become very important indeed!