Comanche: removed one cap

[Miles Smiles]

Hi!

Yesterday I had the Tribute Comanche open again and I removed that second capacitor from the hi-cut tone control. The one which is of type 102 and constantly bleeds height to earth. The same thing I found in the old SC-2 and I removed that cap there too, as If I want less high frequencies, I always may use the tone control anyway. The Tribute has obviously the same wiring as the USA models have, at least I found a very matching picture of Comanche wiring in the gallery.

I'd notice that cap as I've opened the guitar soon after I've got it, but I let it untouched. When I was recording with the Comanche and did the same recording with my Partscaster, which has a set of Legacy pickups inside, I noticed that the Comanche cannot compete with the Partscaster in clearness of the sound.

I'm recording with a Line6 Pod X3 and I'm always taking just the unprocessed signal coming via USB. The first part (0:00) is the Comanche with the cap still there and the second (0:14) without:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5322859/Comanch ... cessed.mp3

After that I use the Line6 Podfarm as VST-plugin and above sample sounds like this, with the Plexi45 amp simulation:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5322859/Comanch ... lexi45.mp3

Now, that video was made without the capacitor:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntax87KT8P0&hd=1[/video]

This one is with the cap still inside, (more not perfect playing, I apologise)

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0nCvT9Znik[/video]

And for comparison, with the older version of that track, the Partscaster with G&L pickups:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEtqtV_tmA4[/video]

[Philby]

Hi Miles. Straight out of the POD X3, I prefer the more muted sound with the capacitor in place.

But I think the cap-less Comanche video has better tone than the other 2.

Nice playing too BTW

[Miles Smiles]

Hi Miles. Straight out of the POD X3, I prefer the more muted sound with the capacitor in place.

But I think the cap-less Comanche video has better tone than the other 2.

The unprocessed sound is just to show how much the difference is and it sounds awful anyway. For the processed sound I took the same amp simulation as in the video, but without effect simulations like compressor, chorus and reverb. And it seems the brighter sound does a better job in conjunction with the other instruments

I mostly play the mentioned SC-2 with the tone control rolled a little bit off. But mostly and not always, so I have the choice.

But I also remember some discussions on how to modify, I think it was an ASAT, for a less bright tone without rolling on the knobs. So there are people there who like this feature, but I don't. Maybe there are some other Comanche owners, which don't know there's that simple possibility for a more Strat-like tone.

Nice playing too BTW

Thanks