What Value Tone Cap ?

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What Value Tone Cap ?

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I just got a selection of orange drop capacitors :

.015 µF
.022 µF
.047 µF

What's best for humbuckers ? (Super 70)
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My old Kramers and the Dean that I had all have had the green tantalum .047uf capacitors on the tone control pots. My Kramers are Volume Tone Tone

I can't remember what my Les Pauls had but I think I used a 50's wiring kit with .022uf orange drop caps.

I'd say start at .047uf and if you find it too strident in the high end then swap out to .022uf or the .015uf.

Maybe do a search and see what value caps the Ibanez destroyers had with the Super 70's pickups.
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harddriver wrote: Sat May 28, 2022 2:34 am My old Kramers and the Dean that I had all have had the green tantalum .047uf capacitors on the tone control pots. My Kramers are Volume Tone Tone

I can't remember what my Les Pauls had but I think I used a 50's wiring kit with .022uf orange drop caps.

I'd say start at .047uf and if you find it too strident in the high end then swap out to .022uf or the .015uf.

Maybe do a search and see what value caps the Ibanez destroyers had with the Super 70's pickups.
The stock tone cap that was in there was a .027 µF

The Super 70 is a bright pickup, so I was dialing the tone pot to about 8.5 to make it sound right. But everything under 8.5 was mud.

I wound up putting in the .015 µF cap and now I have a much larger range of travel on the tone knob that yields usable tone.
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Bog standards:

.022uF for humbuckers
.047uF for singles

Adjust from there.
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15 and 22 for humbuckers
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