Orange drop capacitors...

[Marshall Law]

I'm thinking about putting a set of Seymour Duncan Slash 2.0 PU's in an SG, of course, I'm going to upgrade the caps. I have always used .022 Orange Drops's but on the Seymour Duncan website they suggest .047 caps for all passive pickups. I have always been under the impression 022's for humbuckers, 047's for single coils. I will probably just go with 022's, any thoughts?

 

[griff10672]

I would put Emerson Paper and Oils Bumble Bee's in there ..... .022's .... just my opinion

I've seen him an interview a couple of times say he uses real old Bumble Bee's

Tone caps are a rabbit hole ......

 

[NewWorldMan]

https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/latest-updates/best-guitar-pots-and-caps

 

[PurityS.L.G]

.022 will be a hair brighter and won’t get as dark and muffled when you turn tone all the way off.

As Wayne said, you can go down a rabbit hole with them that I never knew existed. Bumble bees are awesome but way too pricey for what they do IMO. If you have the money to burn, get them but otherwise you can get the same results with a much cheaper brand

 

[mixn4him]

I have been splurging on the Emersons, I can tell a difference but its subtle..

 

[LP Freak]

Do you use the tone or leave it on 10?

 

[hbcalisurfer]

+1 on the Emersons plus they look cool

 

[stratjacket]

If it’s just your one guitar, I’d splurge on whatever you want to try price wise. I’ve gone down the rabbit hole before only to realize I liked things better without a tone knob in the path at all.

 

[Lightning]

Question on caps in general(Gibson Les Paul) if you have your tone knob always wide open on ten and you use .22 caps on the neck pickup and bridge pickup do the caps really matter

 

[PurityS.L.G]

Question on caps in general(Gibson Les Paul) if you have your tone knob always wide open on ten and you use .22 caps on the neck pickup and bridge pickup do the caps really matter

Not with my own experience. I’ve done Emerson caps with vintage and reissue Central Lab pots, Alpha, CTS, you name it. The differences are not significant whatsoever unless of course you start comparing 250k to 500k and linear vs audio.

 

[ChuggNorris]

I have been splurging on the Emersons, I can tell a difference but its subtle..

The subtle nature of elegance.

 

[SpiderWars]

I often prefer the bigger values, like 0.047uF and even 0.1uF for Strats. But I tend to leave them on 10 or close.

 

[mixn4him]

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The subtle nature of elegance.

Hey if we cant have fun with this hobby than why bother..