That's basically what Gibson's Varitone does (it's a little different, but the same idea). I'm not saying the cap doesn't do anything, if you had a 3 way switch with a. A month later, it will still sound just like a Strat and you probably won't think 'I'm glad I took out that crappy. 1 and it changed the sound some, but not as much as different strings or turning a knob on your amp. Who makes it doesn't make a difference, the cap goes to ground. Also, I don't know if it's because I'm using two caps now, but the quack is incredibly good in 2 and 4.Ġ.1uf was used from '54 to '69, if you want the vintage Strat sound. It sounds great and lets me fully use both tone dials. That could be due to the good part of the dial being modified, or it could be that there is now simply less difference between the two capacitors in what they are being asked to do. Then later I put 10k resistors in the mix to eliminate the very darkest portion of each pot, and now I've eliminated about 80% of the difference in quality that I heard before. 047 is probably too dark, unless you are using it as your only cap (not tone split). Doing a side by side comparison using the 5 way switch in 1, 3 and 5, I decided that I dearly loved the effect of the Vitamin Q as it moved into its dark sounding region, more than the orange drop. 033 Vitamin Q PIO applied to the middle pickup. 022 orange drop applied to the neck and bridge and a. I have a tone split mod, so when I'm just using one of my three pickups, I get the cap for that pickup only. it sounds just like every other 0.022 cap I've used. I even have a mystical Bumblebee from a 50's Les Paul. The whole cap thing is really overrated, IMO. the difference was not there, even though they were the same value. I even swapped them out for some Russian military PIO caps. I've used them and have had them in several guitars. I hardly ever roll my tone knobs back more than half way anyway, so I don't need all that high end to be cut out.Īs for the Sprague Orange Drops, they're just another cap that does what it's supposed to. Super cheap.įor me, I never use anything bigger than a 0.022uf cap. I think I bought like ten caps there, of different values and composition for around four dollars. If you have a Fry's Electronics near by, head over there and go down the cap aisle. Caps are so cheap that it's worth buying a few. Theoretically, when the pot is wide open, the capacitor should be out of the circuit, so regardless of what cap is in there, it will sound the same.

The higher the value in farads, the more treble that gets cut out as you turn the knob.

Carvin guitars overrated