Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum

Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Dane on August 01, 2007, 02:54:17 PM

Title: Capacitor Value
Post by: Dane on August 01, 2007, 02:54:17 PM

What do you think is the best value for the Bridge and Neck capacitors of a Mule in an SG??

Title: Capacitor Value
Post by: Twinfan on August 01, 2007, 04:25:00 PM

0.022uf

Title: Capacitor Value
Post by: WezV on August 01, 2007, 04:53:25 PM

Quote from: Twinfan

0.022uf

certainly cant go wrong with that since is pretty much an industry standard.

Personally i encourage people to try a few different values to find what suits them best.  worth trying a couple of differnt pots as well

I dont think its worth spending stupid money on capacitors but stuff like the sprague orange drop ones can be found for a resonable price and i do think they sound better than cheap disc capacitors.

Title: Capacitor Value
Post by: Dane on August 01, 2007, 05:12:57 PM

Well i ordered dis for my Mule loaded SG
http://www.rsguitarworks.net/rsstore/product_info.php?cPath=31_60&products_id=415

The neck cap has a value of .015 and im guessing it wiu sound brighter and dat is wat i 1 as my neck is a tad dark 4 my taste. What u guys think??

Title: Capacitor Value
Post by: 5F6-A on August 01, 2007, 05:54:36 PM

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v671/5F6-A/gregmartinwiring-1.jpg)

taht might be of help

Title: Capacitor Value
Post by: Philly Q on August 01, 2007, 06:08:38 PM

Quote from: Dane

The neck cap has a value of .015 and im guessing it wiu sound brighter and dat is wat i 1 as my neck is a tad dark 4 my taste. What u guys think??

Yeah, the lower value capacitor will give you less treble roll-off when you use the neck pickup tone control.  

It'll make little or no difference when everything's on 10 though, so if the neck pickup's still too dark you might want to try a higher value volume pot (1 Meg), or maybe not bother having a neck tone control at all?

(P.S. Who's Hilario Garcia?  Is that you, 5F6-A?)

Title: Capacitor Value
Post by: 5F6-A on August 01, 2007, 10:28:44 PM

Quote from: Philly Q

(P.S. Who's Hilario Garcia?  Is that you, 5F6-A?)

Yes, it is! ;)

Title: Capacitor Value
Post by: Dane on August 02, 2007, 02:35:01 AM

Yeah guys thx. Well im experimenting wif these 1st. If it does not work then i will go for 2 volume 1 varitone (wif 1 position dat will totally bypass tone pots) and a killswitch.