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Bear in mind that *only* the cap value matters - there is no advantage or "upgrade" in using more expensive/esoteric/hyped types like 'paper in oil'.
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I don't believe it... after all I spent, they'd better work.
With the normal cap values in guitars, turning the tone down lower than 7-8 just turns the sound to a useless muddy mush.
I think I may have that slightly wrong.
I don't like smaller values, they leave too much midrange and a honky tone. I prefer .047uF or larger with Fender-style single coils and .022uF with humbuckers and P90s.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
.047uF just kills volume and treble all at once for me.
I'm quite a big fan of 0.1uF / 100nF caps with some pickups in Fender guitars. The Texas Specials in my American Special Strat, combined with the Grease Bucket circuitry sounded harsh. Ditching the Grease Bucket circuitry and replacing with regular tone control wiring with a 47nF cap helped a lot, but a subsequent change to a 100nF cap on the bridge pickup really helped me to enjoy the bridge pickup, which I had felt was still a little harsh even with the 47nF cap. At some point I may replace the bridge tone control pot with something with a flatter taper (say a 20% taper or higher) as it does feel like it cuts quite quickly, but overall I think there are a lot of positives with big value tone caps - certainly preferable to the 22nF caps that fender seem to use on everything these days.
Incidentally, I think the Grease Bucket circuit actually has potential, it's just badly implemented. I may experiment with it, when time allows, perhaps with two 100nF caps such that the capacitance varies from 100nF down to 50nF as the pot is reduced. I may keep or ditch the fixed resistor depending how that works - I rarely turn the tone control right down so the fixed resistor has some use for me, but I get why others dislike it.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/89942/caspercaster#latest
Pretty sure an old fender bronco that i had, had an orange largish .05uf cap in it and that sounded fine.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
I found it really useful to easily hear the difference capacitors make without having to do the soldering. I found that the bridge and neck pickups tended to sound better with different capacitors from each other, and that the standard 22 / 47 was almost a settling for the mid point. I found the individual increments didn’t give much change, it was really every 2 turns of the dial or more tha5 made a noticeable difference.
For my tastes I like the thickening you can get using a low value cap on a Strat bridge p/u... but it’s useless with a 10% taper pot.
I have not experimented with a big old 0.1uF and a J-taper pot ( 30%taper CTS) but look forward to trying it.
i have a Tele with a ‘52 reissue bridge p/u and it’s perfectly mated to a 0.033uF cap and 20%taper pot, gives a fabulous wah wah effect when reqd ( which isn’t often ! ).
Get some leads with crocodile clips, a bunch of different pot tapers and have fun trying cap values.
Never seen one of these cap sub boxes, how useful ( out of stock tho)
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There’s quite a selection of capacitors on the fender website but i cant see that type of large flat round cap.
Magic vintage tone caps, only $100 each.
Kidding - if I have them you can have a couple for the cost of postage.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson