Mysteries of X350 Pushbutton Switching

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50's and 60's (maybe 70's?) Gretsches also had a fabulous mud switch with two flavors. Flip up the toggle (located right next to the pickup selector toggle) and you got mud. Flip it down and you got muddier. Put it right in the middle and it removed both tone caps from the circuit. Hard to imagine why they persisted with this feature into the 60's, much less beyond. The problem with the way Guild built these "mud" caps into the circuit is that you can't bypass them. Hence, the need for clipping. Can't wait to Freeda Franz.
 

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cc_mac said:
.... I know caps degrade and can eventually fail - at least in amps ...
Hi Chris; more true in amps ... less true in guitars ... just not enough current running through them to create much stress ... but they do come in tone flavors ... paper-in-oil, polypropelene, polyester and others giving the player an opportunity to obsess over the implications of changing them.
 
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