PRS Sweet Switch

It's a small integrated inductor/capacitor network that acts as a passive band-pass filter, if you want a technical description!

In other words, it produces a narrower, more midrangy frequency response.

The original idea was apparently to simulate the effect of a particular long cable - I don't know what length, or type, or if it was a specific cable Paul Smith liked the sound of, but that's what it said in the literature at the time.

I don't have schematic though.

Some people love them. I find it nasal and honky - 'squawk', not 'sweet'... but each to their own.

 

Sounds a bit like a wah pedal stuck in the middle, a bit Schenker-y sounding. I actually like the sweet switch for some lead work.

 

Well I was at Guitar Center just yesterday and they had a PRS 89 std. 24 for sale. I tried the guitar and fooled around with the sweet switch. I find that they don't make much of a difference and I would rather have a tone control anyday. Just my opinion.

The sweet switch cuts the high end like moving a tone control from 10 to 9.25. Something like that.

 

John Phillips has the story mostly correct. The story I got (probably from here, Eric Pritchard I beleive), was that it was developed after Carlos Santana complained of the change in tone when using a wireless. So, it is suppossed to reproduce the capacitive effect of a long instrument cable.

 

Get the story here...
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/47635&highlight=eric+pritchard+sweet+switch