Demo audio test with Orange Drop capacitors in three differend values 0,022uf 0,033uf 0,047uf clean without fx with a Squier Jazzmaster on a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 soundcard. In the first test [1:43] you can hear the difference if you boost the tremble with some equalizer on good speakers or headphones the 0,022uf have more highs. in the second test [4:12] you can cleary hear the 0.047 is more bassy. TIMELINE [0:00] PRESENTATION AND INFO [1:43] TEST WITH VOLUME UP [4:12] TEST WITH TONE DOWN [6:43] JUST TURNING THE POTS 👉 Capacitors for Guitar Amazon: amzn.to/2TdEpKl eBay: ebay.us/rE368X ▶ Another video about your Guitar tone Treble Bleed Mod: ruclips.net/video/IeVLR5pvh54/видео.html ▶️ Tutorials/Demos/Other Stuffs: goo.gl/fy4m9H Thanks for Watching! #capacitors #guitartone #guitarcapacitors #tonecap
It does not matter much on the Pot....a box Mallory dude....and front end/gain stage conversion to ODs actual Spragues 716p...niceeee man...I had some genereic ones man not as nice.
So in the demo at 1:43, is the tone knob on full? That's what I'm assuming. I still hear a difference. Some assume that if the tone knob is on ten, then the capacitor value shouldn't matter, but I'm of the other way of thinking...I think that some of the signal is still getting through the variable resistor and interacting with the tone capacitor even when the tone knob is on ten.
Thank you, finally someone has the brains to make a demo without yakking between changes and playing different riffs on each change.. The perfect way to illustrate how to train the ear..
So I went to the grocery store yesterday and while I was picking out my shampoo for my beautiful heavy metal hair I got to thinking. Should I do a a capacitor comparison. 🤔 I then proceeded to go to the egg section and... 🤯🗡️😡
Haha, yep! And another one of the most common things, that quickly becomes very irritating after a few videos, is when people (bless them) test a distortion, or overdrive, or fuzz, etc, and use it through the distortion channel of their amp and/or turn the gain of the pedal way up and never even touch on the low gain, high volume settings, which are often the sweet zone (depending on what you're going for and what the circuit is able to do, how it's setup, etc)...treble knob tends not to make it far past 50% either........... "Ok, here's my clean channel".....*cue muddy distorted sound*........"Now here's the pedal switched on"......*cue absolute muck*
I mean, it's difficult to offer everyone a demo of a pedal, or whatever, where it's the same/similar setup (amp, guitar, etc) and it's played in a similar style that the viewer intends to use it for...... But shit...Why not start with the most basic and gradually increase it? And if you don't cover the most intense settings, for whatever reasons, at least people can extrapolate it. It seems a far more broad and accurate test standard for 5-20min videos. Speaking of that... to get 20mins in and still be wanting to reach through the screen, knock-out the presenter and commandeer the effect unit..... I guess the neo-traditional mission down to the nearest music shop, test shit yourself approach, actually saves alot of grief in hindsight!
this is the first comparison test i've seen done properly in a lo-o-o-ng time. Thanks to your rhythm and fine editing, differences can actually be noticed. I'm partial to the fullness of the 0.047uF.
I never realised how big affect cap value was when pot is wide open, you can hear the EQ cut off point changing with each cap change and that's even before you start rolling it back. Great informative video, cheers
I thought this would be the case but doubted myself until I saw this video. It confirms that even if the tone knob was turned all the up, it does not completely remove the caps. Thank you for the demo!!!!
Great demo. 100% agree with everyone commenting about playing the same thing across the test. Much easier to distinguish the differences between each. Thank you 🤘🎸
One of the most useful guitar videos I‘ve found over this last year. It seems likely to me people spend so much time modding pickups, they forget how important tone capacitors and treble bleeds are. Thanks for doing this demo!
Exactly and i have no idea why everyone says the opposite of that statement. I have heard something about “no-load” pots that in theory take the cap out of circuit when the tone control is not rolled off but i think 9 out of 10 people don’t use those pots. So the caps will have an effect.
Just wanna say "Thank you"... This is absolutely THE best video on RUclips for demonstrating the difference in capacitors for single coil pickups... (I know, I KNOW, "Jazzmaster" pickups, lol)
Great! This is how a comparison should be done. I think I like the 0,22 sound more than the "correct" 0,47. They are less muddy. I have two P90s in order to solder into a Hollowbody guitar that now have two Humbuckers and I'm not sure if I need to replace the capacitors. It saves some job if I just solder the new P90s to the incoming cables instead of taking all components out of the F-hole. Ok, the result is most important but if the the difference between 0,22 and 0,47 is VERY suddle maybe I can keep those already in place. I listen to advice though. I'm not even sure I like the more bassy sound with 0,47. One reason to change from HB to P90 is to get another sound, better mids, less bass. I record music a lot and know how guitars basstones often have to be cleaned up anyways in competition with bass, keboard, song etc. The bittest issue is if 0,47 gets more harsh on the top, I don't like that.
Best comparison video on caps! Great! All of those saying different caps values don't make any difference when tone pot is full open have to watch this!
Agreeed! A lot say that caps only kick in after you've turned tone knob down to 5 and below. This demo proves that caps affect the tone when fully opened.
.022uf with volume up: 1:47 .033uf with volume up: 2:03 .047uf with volume up: 2:19 .022uf with tone down: 4:16 .033uf with tone down: 4:32 .047uf with tone down: 4:49
Thank You! At the moment I use 250k-Vol and 500k-Tone Pots with a 22n Cap for the best Fuzz Clean Up. It sounds great (very much presence / high mids). Now I'm gonna try a 33n Cap for less presence.
I put a 221 orange disc capacitor in a Tele I made. You can get some great tones with it. Also I have a humbucker in the bridge and a strat single coil in the neck (no cover) with 250k pots. First tele style guitar I actually love. It voices very well and is Douglas Fir with a maple neck and fret board. For my 2nd build I like how it came out. Also for anyone interested a tele can be made from 1.5 inch thick wood for a lighter and thinner body with only a few minor adjustments to the control cavity pocket by making it a little shallower. This allows for a lot of upper fret access especially if you put a 20 degree angle on the area the plate goes on the back to thin out the material a little more (the angle is like how Schecter does on some guitars). If it has a term it cannot be done since the trem block will stick out the back. So grabbing the structural fir from Lowes and Ace Hardware works just fine. I accidentally found this out because when buying a 2x4 I measured it at home and it turned out to only be 1.5 inches thick. Good video.
After this test decided to put the .033 in my strat. Sounds good, real good. Also put in a Orange Drop .001 µF w/ 150 kΩ resistor treble bleed. Thank you so much.
i have this exact VM Squire Jazzmaster and the secret sauce at least for me in the lead circuit is 1Meg Tapered Pots (CTS) and .033 caps, I can easily dial back on the tone when I need to and I do use the Rhythm Circuit for reaching jazzy style tones. I always scratch my head when I see guitarist tape off the rhythm circuit as many think it's too complicated, to me it's an added bonus to have the option. Anyways, killer clip and info !!
Thats nice! me to i use 1M CTS and ,33cap sounds good, another cool thing its the tremble bleed mode ruclips.net/video/IeVLR5pvh54/видео.html if you make this you will have a super guitar 😊
Excellent demonstration. When the cap in my VM Jazzmaster went bad my guitar repair guy replaced it with a .033uF, and I've fallen in love with the sound. When you roll it off it emphasizes the mids while attenuating the bass and treble. I think I'm gonna try a .033uF in one of my other guitars to see if has a similar effect; I like the tone that much.
Thanks! the stock cap on my VM was crap the orange drop was big improvement, another big impact on the sound is the treble bleed mod i made a video about: ruclips.net/video/IeVLR5pvh54/видео.html you should try it its easy 🎸🎶👍
Excellent video man; thanks a lot!!! It has helping me to find the cap that I want for my guitar. I really like the 0.033. Thank you sou much, really useful indeed!!!
Only difference I hear is between the pickup selection and not the capacitors themselves when the pot's on 10. However, the difference is noticed when it's rolled back @0. When I built the Esquire diagram in a DIY Tele kit, i had a 0.047uf cap on the tone pot and a 0.022uf on the third position of the 3-way switch and with the tone on 0, I heard the difference right away between the 2nd and 3rd positions.
Actually, different brands or materials of the cap won't have any effect on the tone. The cap value is the only thing that matters. But each cap have tollerance rating (from +- .1% until +80%/-20%), that might result in you getting different actual values when you compare caps with the same written values. Edit: i was wrong and corrected by @Dominic Luciano in the reply below
This isn't completely true. Yes, the value has the most effect on tone. But different capacitor brands and materials, as well as type, all have an effect on the final tone, even though it's just bleeding those frequencies to ground. Different cap constructions, materials, and types all affect the harmonics and sub-harmonics that the capacitor will pass, which affects the final sound, even if the affected frequencies are above 16kHz or below 100Hz. That's why some people say certain caps cause "scooped mids" or "glassy treble" or "punchy bass". It all has to do with (sub)harmonics, which are a direct result of the cap type, brand, and construction. Source: I'm an engineering scientist and do this stuff for a living.
@@DominicMLuciano well then you have more authority and experience to talk about this than me. I stand corrected. Anyway, do you have any interesting paper that i could read about this?
@@andrewflanders262 Thats not at all applicable here. A pot is pretty imperfect, and when you have your tone pot at 10, with lets say a 500k ohm pot theres still maybe 3-4% of the pots value on the side thats supposed to be zero. Thats why no load pots where invented, They completely disconnect the whipper from the rest of the pot when they are put on 10, so there wouldn't be any difference no matter what caps he used. But with normal pots there still will be a difference when your tone knob is at zero.
There's definitely a difference in each capacitor; right now I'm rewiring my Strat to have the middle and neck pickups on a .047 capacitor while the bridge will be on .022 but here's the twist: I have the middle pickup in the bridge position for Tele-like sound on 4 and the bridge PU in the middle position retaining the Strat quack on 2, using CTS 250K pots.
this is an amazing video. all the work you put on it to make it (soldering and desoldering). I cannot notice any difference between the 0.033 and 0.047, may be is because the headphones I'm using. Congratulations for such great video!
Yes me too i use the 0.033 on the lead circuit and 0.022 on rythm circuit, another big impact on the sound is the treble bleed mod i made a video about: ruclips.net/video/IeVLR5pvh54/видео.html
You mixed up the capacitors shown in the last segment with the values shown in the demo. 223 mean 22nF = 0.022µF. "22" is the value and the "3" is the number of zeroes (value in pF)
Thanks For The Video. Awesome Job. I Find Myself To Be A Bit Of A Conisour For The Perfect Tone From My Humbuckers Especially. Have You Looked Into ANGELA Jenson .015 Copper Foil, Or Aluminum Foil Paper In Oil Caps. Those Are My Go To Caps For My Tone Pot. They Are A Little Spendy, But The Results Are Jaw Dropping. They Come In .022, .047 Values As Well. I Just Prefer The .015 So I Can Get That Woman Tone, And It's BITCHIN'!
Cool! i have try some yellow Aluminum Foil Paper and the sound was amazing very clear "HiFi sound" but because i wanted that vintage tone and on Jazzmaster was to freaking clear and trembly i change it with the orange drops, when i get a guitar with Humbuckers i will try it thanks! 🎸🎶🖖
I'm curious. I'm changing out the Humbuckers in my epiphone with Active blackout pickups, similar to the EMG 81 & 85's. Do I need to apply copper tape in the body cavity prior to assembling it back together? Because I don't want to put it together only to find out there's a hum and have to painstakingly take it apart again. Please let me know. Thank you.
Lindy Fralin said to get the best “wah” type effect from rolling a tone is to use a 0.05 in the bridge . He was using single coils though . I don’t know if this applies to a bucker in the bridge but the pronounced ‘Wah wah’ thing is what I’m going for . And please note .. none of them do anything unless you are rolling your tone and volume knobs . Any video that compares caps without doing whole rolling the tone and volume is pointless .. it’s crazy I even have to say that 🥴
7byseven first of all I could be wrong in saying this, but the capacitors are for the pots not the pickups. Sooo it’s going to change the sound of both pickups equally. I get what you’re say and man for a second it was a great idea, one that I also wanted to do. But then I had to think about the diagram. I want a twang bright bridge and a mellow full neck sound. Let me know if you find out anything contrary to what I supposed. Thanks.
It really seems that the .022 has the most useful and full tone on all settings, plus an interesting vocal wha sound when you sweep... I can't say that would be true in humbuckers, but for bright singles, it's always been the one for me... plus ideally you want to approximate the humbucker tonality with the singles... and it seems to have the most versatile tone in that sense too. Strats have a great ability to distort tube amps with the tone rolled back.
i didnt get how to instal ... it was better at first you did it... i mean how to instaling capacitors to guitar step by step... not only by map ! can i get help from you ?
My guitar is affinity jazzmaster hh, wonder is ts have the same set up inside the electronic, i have very little knowledge on this. I really taking interest in changing the capacitor.
this jazzmaster have single coil pickups the affinity have humbuckers and its different situation, i gues they have 0.022uf if you open up you see in the cap something like 223J
Excellent video. Thank you for your time and trouble. What I take away from it is that I should not bother changing capacitors. The difference made would be not worthwhile. On the other hand, I'm listening to the demo on cellular fone. Pathetic junk as far as sound reproduction goes. AND really, a man should try a new one on his own guitar. They're cheap, it's an easy procedure and lots of folks say it makes a difference. They can't all be wrong.
Get your facts correct! Capacitance does use Farads however the symbol you showed was micro Farads. (The correct symbol has a long 'tail' on the right side of a small u. Caps also come in nano (n), pico(p) and milli(m)
@@StamatisStabos Thank you. I recently bought the Q pickup set you demoed, I am experimenting with caps with that set - on your demos were you using the .033 cal as well?
@@christianwilson9677 yes the 033 is the standard cap for Jazzmasters, I used the Pickups for long time very good especially the bridge pickup are more powerful from fender 65
Demo audio test with Orange Drop capacitors in three differend values 0,022uf 0,033uf 0,047uf clean without fx with a Squier Jazzmaster on a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 soundcard.
In the first test [1:43] you can hear the difference if you boost the tremble with some equalizer on good speakers or headphones the 0,022uf have more highs.
in the second test [4:12] you can cleary hear the 0.047 is more bassy.
TIMELINE
[0:00] PRESENTATION AND INFO
[1:43] TEST WITH VOLUME UP
[4:12] TEST WITH TONE DOWN
[6:43] JUST TURNING THE POTS
👉 Capacitors for Guitar
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▶️ Tutorials/Demos/Other Stuffs: goo.gl/fy4m9H
Thanks for Watching!
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It does not matter much on the Pot....a box Mallory dude....and front end/gain stage conversion to ODs actual Spragues 716p...niceeee man...I had some genereic ones man not as nice.
So in the demo at 1:43, is the tone knob on full? That's what I'm assuming. I still hear a difference. Some assume that if the tone knob is on ten, then the capacitor value shouldn't matter, but I'm of the other way of thinking...I think that some of the signal is still getting through the variable resistor and interacting with the tone capacitor even when the tone knob is on ten.
@@CraigPaddockmusic same question
100% useful information, 0% useless banter.
Thank you, finally someone has the brains to make a demo without yakking between changes and playing different riffs on each change.. The perfect way to illustrate how to train the ear..
Yeah... I hate that kind of test...
So I went to the grocery store yesterday and while I was picking out my shampoo for my beautiful heavy metal hair I got to thinking. Should I do a a capacitor comparison. 🤔 I then proceeded to go to the egg section and... 🤯🗡️😡
Haha, yep! And another one of the most common things, that quickly becomes very irritating after a few videos, is when people (bless them) test a distortion, or overdrive, or fuzz, etc, and use it through the distortion channel of their amp and/or turn the gain of the pedal way up and never even touch on the low gain, high volume settings, which are often the sweet zone (depending on what you're going for and what the circuit is able to do, how it's setup, etc)...treble knob tends not to make it far past 50% either...........
"Ok, here's my clean channel".....*cue muddy distorted sound*........"Now here's the pedal switched on"......*cue absolute muck*
I mean, it's difficult to offer everyone a demo of a pedal, or whatever, where it's the same/similar setup (amp, guitar, etc) and it's played in a similar style that the viewer intends to use it for...... But shit...Why not start with the most basic and gradually increase it? And if you don't cover the most intense settings, for whatever reasons, at least people can extrapolate it. It seems a far more broad and accurate test standard for 5-20min videos.
Speaking of that... to get 20mins in and still be wanting to reach through the screen, knock-out the presenter and commandeer the effect unit.....
I guess the neo-traditional mission down to the nearest music shop, test shit yourself approach, actually saves alot of grief in hindsight!
@@Kyle-sg4rm BANG on! Lol...
this is the first comparison test i've seen done properly in a lo-o-o-ng time.
Thanks to your rhythm and fine editing, differences can actually be noticed.
I'm partial to the fullness of the 0.047uF.
This is a great test. This is how tests should be done
I never realised how big affect cap value was when pot is wide open, you can hear the EQ cut off point changing with each cap change and that's even before you start rolling it back. Great informative video, cheers
best cap test I've seen
Great video. Cap value affect tone even with the tone knob at 10... I've known this for decades (anecdotally). This confirms it. Thanks man.
I agree
Agreed 100%
I thought this would be the case but doubted myself until I saw this video. It confirms that even if the tone knob was turned all the up, it does not completely remove the caps. Thank you for the demo!!!!
Great demo. 100% agree with everyone commenting about playing the same thing across the test. Much easier to distinguish the differences between each. Thank you 🤘🎸
Sooo helpful! Changing the 250K dime pots to 500k Alphas and .47 to .22uf cap on my HB JA-60 to brighten the pickups. Thank you!
One of the most useful guitar videos I‘ve found over this last year. It seems likely to me people spend so much time modding pickups, they forget how important tone capacitors and treble bleeds are. Thanks for doing this demo!
Exactly and i have no idea why everyone says the opposite of that statement. I have heard something about “no-load” pots that in theory take the cap out of circuit when the tone control is not rolled off but i think 9 out of 10 people don’t use those pots. So the caps will have an effect.
Just wanna say "Thank you"... This is absolutely THE best video on RUclips for demonstrating the difference in capacitors for single coil pickups... (I know, I KNOW, "Jazzmaster" pickups, lol)
Jazzmasters have single coil pickups, nothing wrong in your sentence
Great! This is how a comparison should be done. I think I like the 0,22 sound more than the "correct" 0,47. They are less muddy.
I have two P90s in order to solder into a Hollowbody guitar that now have two Humbuckers and I'm not sure if I need to replace the capacitors. It saves some job if I just solder the new P90s to the incoming cables instead of taking all components out of the F-hole. Ok, the result is most important but if the the difference between 0,22 and 0,47 is VERY suddle maybe I can keep those already in place. I listen to advice though. I'm not even sure I like the more bassy sound with 0,47. One reason to change from HB to P90 is to get another sound, better mids, less bass. I record music a lot and know how guitars basstones often have to be cleaned up anyways in competition with bass, keboard, song etc. The bittest issue is if 0,47 gets more harsh on the top, I don't like that.
This is the perfect way to do the audio test, thank you for putting them back to back so you can actually hear the difference between tones
Best comparison video on caps!
Great!
All of those saying different caps values don't make any difference when tone pot is full open have to watch this!
Agreeed! A lot say that caps only kick in after you've turned tone knob down to 5 and below. This demo proves that caps affect the tone when fully opened.
.022uf with volume up: 1:47
.033uf with volume up: 2:03
.047uf with volume up: 2:19
.022uf with tone down: 4:16
.033uf with tone down: 4:32
.047uf with tone down: 4:49
Outstanding. Finally someone who knows their stuff and just shows you without trying to be a cmedian or a Hollywood celebrity. Well done. Thanks.
Perfectly done ty been waiting on this video for some time. (I’m going 0.047 all the way)
The best caps comparison video!! I prefer 22nf or lower 15nf.
Corect way to test a tone. Other RUclipsrs needs to learn from this 😀😀
Thank You! At the moment I use 250k-Vol and 500k-Tone Pots with a 22n Cap for the best Fuzz Clean Up. It sounds great (very much presence / high mids). Now I'm gonna try a 33n Cap for less presence.
I put a 221 orange disc capacitor in a Tele I made. You can get some great tones with it. Also I have a humbucker in the bridge and a strat single coil in the neck (no cover) with 250k pots. First tele style guitar I actually love. It voices very well and is Douglas Fir with a maple neck and fret board. For my 2nd build I like how it came out.
Also for anyone interested a tele can be made from 1.5 inch thick wood for a lighter and thinner body with only a few minor adjustments to the control cavity pocket by making it a little shallower. This allows for a lot of upper fret access especially if you put a 20 degree angle on the area the plate goes on the back to thin out the material a little more (the angle is like how Schecter does on some guitars). If it has a term it cannot be done since the trem block will stick out the back. So grabbing the structural fir from Lowes and Ace Hardware works just fine. I accidentally found this out because when buying a 2x4 I measured it at home and it turned out to only be 1.5 inches thick.
Good video.
This video was PERFECT! It was exactly the way to compare the capacitors.
Good video. I only wish you had added a no cap to the demo
After this test decided to put the .033 in my strat. Sounds good, real good. Also put in a Orange Drop .001 µF w/ 150 kΩ resistor treble bleed. Thank you so much.
Try only a 180pf cap ad PRS... is the best way for me
FINALLY...a video us guitarists can watch and understand immediately without watching it for 20mins first...nice job man :)
i have this exact VM Squire Jazzmaster and the secret sauce at least for me in the lead circuit is 1Meg Tapered Pots (CTS) and .033 caps, I can easily dial back on the tone when I need to and I do use the Rhythm Circuit for reaching jazzy style tones. I always scratch my head when I see guitarist tape off the rhythm circuit as many think it's too complicated, to me it's an added bonus to have the option. Anyways, killer clip and info !!
Thats nice! me to i use 1M CTS and ,33cap sounds good, another cool thing its the tremble bleed mode ruclips.net/video/IeVLR5pvh54/видео.html if you make this you will have a super guitar 😊
Excellent demonstration. When the cap in my VM Jazzmaster went bad my guitar repair guy replaced it with a .033uF, and I've fallen in love with the sound. When you roll it off it emphasizes the mids while attenuating the bass and treble. I think I'm gonna try a .033uF in one of my other guitars to see if has a similar effect; I like the tone that much.
Thanks! the stock cap on my VM was crap the orange drop was big improvement, another big impact on the sound is the treble bleed mod i made a video about: ruclips.net/video/IeVLR5pvh54/видео.html
you should try it its easy 🎸🎶👍
I learned something! Thank you! 🙂
very useful demo. excellent. Thanks.
AND the guitar is in tune.
Excellent video man; thanks a lot!!! It has helping me to find the cap that I want for my guitar. I really like the 0.033. Thank you sou much, really useful indeed!!!
Thanks for watching Jorge im glad to help you! if you want read this article about capacitors www.electricherald.com/guitar-capacitors-tonecaps-guide/
@@StamatisStabos Thank you so much man. Cheers ✌😁
This took quite a bit of work. Thank you very much!
Excellent demo, clearly showing differences in sound. As for me I'd vote for 0.047uF. CDE 225P film-foil polyester.
This is the best tone capacitor comparison so far.
Wow...thanks so much! So very useful. I was wanting to hear a clear and simple comparison to determine the right capacitor for my build! Perfect!!!😎🎸
Nice, Great to hear! 🎸🎵✨
Thank you very much! It's what i need now!!!
Only difference I hear is between the pickup selection and not the capacitors themselves when the pot's on 10. However, the difference is noticed when it's rolled back @0. When I built the Esquire diagram in a DIY Tele kit, i had a 0.047uf cap on the tone pot and a 0.022uf on the third position of the 3-way switch and with the tone on 0, I heard the difference right away between the 2nd and 3rd positions.
Love the 33! Now I know what to use . . . esp w/ P-90s. I looked for a video like this! Great job.
Thanks for the demo. For some reason my Epiphone LP has .47 on both tone knobs. Going to replace them with .15 and .22.
Thanks for this demo very informative i like the 0.33 and 0.47
Great info in a no nonsense way. Thank you. The editing wasn't to shabby either. Bravo.
Been watching alot of these demos and this what I been looking for
muito bom,valeu a demonstração,tirou as minhas dúvidas,abraço.
Good job! Best example and explanation of capacitors I've seen so far.
Thanks Peter! ✨
Proly the best demo of tone caps... No talkshit and i personally like 0.033 uF on a HH set, and 104 tone cap on a SSS strat.
Actually, different brands or materials of the cap won't have any effect on the tone. The cap value is the only thing that matters. But each cap have tollerance rating (from +- .1% until +80%/-20%), that might result in you getting different actual values when you compare caps with the same written values.
Edit: i was wrong and corrected by @Dominic Luciano in the reply below
This isn't completely true. Yes, the value has the most effect on tone. But different capacitor brands and materials, as well as type, all have an effect on the final tone, even though it's just bleeding those frequencies to ground. Different cap constructions, materials, and types all affect the harmonics and sub-harmonics that the capacitor will pass, which affects the final sound, even if the affected frequencies are above 16kHz or below 100Hz. That's why some people say certain caps cause "scooped mids" or "glassy treble" or "punchy bass". It all has to do with (sub)harmonics, which are a direct result of the cap type, brand, and construction. Source: I'm an engineering scientist and do this stuff for a living.
@@DominicMLuciano well then you have more authority and experience to talk about this than me. I stand corrected.
Anyway, do you have any interesting paper that i could read about this?
Great comparison, thank you!
The volume knob is all the way up, but what position is the tone knob in?
This doesn’t really show much.
There is no difference when knobs are at ten.. Is when you roll down you notice how much high frequencies is cut.
Great demo cheers you have explained it well ..well done mate ..learnt a lot
Thanks Anthony! 🎸🎵🖖
It’s so interesting that even with the tone knobs all the way up I could hear the difference in the capacitors
It's more likely that he varied is pick attack between demos than it is the caps made a difference at 10.
Andrew Flanders ahhhhhh good
Point. That is always a variable.
even at 10 there is some bleed into the caps by a small amount.
@@GrimYak human hearing is not sensitive enough to be able to distinguish such small differences, we dont have a dog's hearing.
@@andrewflanders262 Thats not at all applicable here. A pot is pretty imperfect, and when you have your tone pot at 10, with lets say a 500k ohm pot theres still maybe 3-4% of the pots value on the side thats supposed to be zero. Thats why no load pots where invented, They completely disconnect the whipper from the rest of the pot when they are put on 10, so there wouldn't be any difference no matter what caps he used. But with normal pots there still will be a difference when your tone knob is at zero.
There's definitely a difference in each capacitor; right now I'm rewiring my Strat to have the middle and neck pickups on a .047 capacitor while the bridge will be on .022 but here's the twist: I have the middle pickup in the bridge position for Tele-like sound on 4 and the bridge PU in the middle position retaining the Strat quack on 2, using CTS 250K pots.
How did you did that?
Also do not forget that vintage 1962 tones knobs are also important. Although some players prefer 1958 knobs.
Where I can figure and those knobs can you recommend some brand also
I was surprised that there was such a difference in sound when the tone was open. I thought it would only change when the tone was down.
Thank you so much! Very helpful!
Hello, I hope this still reach to you, how about the volts? Is it okay to use different volts? What are the effects?
Very helpful video. Thanks
Amazingly useful! Thanks a lot for your time and efforts!
this is an amazing video. all the work you put on it to make it (soldering and desoldering). I cannot notice any difference between the 0.033 and 0.047, may be is because the headphones I'm using. Congratulations for such great video!
Thank you Felipe! 🎵✨😀
very useful video indeed, thank you
Finally someone who doesn't fuck around and does a tone test properly. Nice.
Well done, Bro! It was nice that you played the exact phrases for each. I went with 0.033 on my build. So I know I;m getting middle of the road
Yes me too i use the 0.033 on the lead circuit and 0.022 on rythm circuit, another big impact on the sound is the treble bleed mod i made a video about: ruclips.net/video/IeVLR5pvh54/видео.html
You mixed up the capacitors shown in the last segment with the values shown in the demo. 223 mean 22nF = 0.022µF. "22" is the value and the "3" is the number of zeroes (value in pF)
I use the 0.033 on my humbuckers as my amp is suuuuper bright and it cuts just the tiniest high treble even on full
Do you recomend it for metal/punk style ??
Exactly, exactly what I was looking for. This is much help.
u freakin rule dude!
Thanks For The Video. Awesome Job. I Find Myself To Be A Bit Of A Conisour For The Perfect Tone From My Humbuckers Especially. Have You Looked Into ANGELA Jenson .015 Copper Foil, Or Aluminum Foil Paper In Oil Caps. Those Are My Go To Caps For My Tone Pot. They Are A Little Spendy, But The Results Are Jaw Dropping. They Come In .022, .047 Values As Well. I Just Prefer The .015 So I Can Get That Woman Tone, And It's BITCHIN'!
Cool! i have try some yellow Aluminum Foil Paper and the sound was amazing very clear "HiFi sound" but because i wanted that vintage tone and on Jazzmaster was to freaking clear and trembly i change it with the orange drops, when i get a guitar with Humbuckers i will try it thanks! 🎸🎶🖖
I'm curious. I'm changing out the Humbuckers in my epiphone with Active blackout pickups, similar to the EMG 81 & 85's. Do I need to apply copper tape in the body cavity prior to assembling it back together? Because I don't want to put it together only to find out there's a hum and have to painstakingly take it apart again. Please let me know. Thank you.
You can buy Orange Drops in every electronic shop. You don't have to buy them in boutique shops for boutique prices🤣
Lindy Fralin said to get the best “wah” type effect from rolling a tone is to use a 0.05 in the bridge . He was using single coils though . I don’t know if this applies to a bucker in the bridge but the pronounced ‘Wah wah’ thing is what I’m going for . And please note .. none of them do anything unless you are rolling your tone and volume knobs . Any video that compares caps without doing whole rolling the tone and volume is pointless .. it’s crazy I even have to say that 🥴
Excellent demo 5stars!!!!
Thanks for this, so basically on my particular guitar I need a higher cap on the bridge and a lower cap on the neck.
7byseven first of all I could be wrong in saying this, but the capacitors are for the pots not the pickups. Sooo it’s going to change the sound of both pickups equally. I get what you’re say and man for a second it was a great idea, one that I also wanted to do. But then I had to think about the diagram. I want a twang bright bridge and a mellow full neck sound. Let me know if you find out anything contrary to what I supposed. Thanks.
This was super interesting and useful.
On that particular guitar the .033 sounds best
Agreed!
I think it depends on personal preference. To me it seems they get the tone pretty balanced...
Nicely explained, thanks for sharing!
0.033uf for me gives a good dynamic and balanced sound especially when both pickups are engaged
You are a straight shooter, thanx for the useful demo (Y)
Thanks for watching! 🎸🌟
Nice demo - Thanks
Thanks for watching!
I didn't see an unmodified sample. It was nice to see the tonal changes between each cap, but how did it sound before?
And its is applicable on 25k, 250k , 500k and 1M Potentiometer
Why not 0.1 uf? That’s the value fender put in their player range of jazzmasters; humbucker equipped.
Excelente video 😊
Hey! Got a question: Did you use the 50's wiring during the test?
i think on this video i use the standard Jazzmaster wiring by Seymour Duncan
Thanks for this. Im sure it was a lot of work.
Thanks dude, now i have a choice,, 473 is badass :)
Best Comparison, for me Wins Max Values, Is More Range (Treble and Bass) More Dynamic, More 3D, More All!!
Sorry for my English
Great test and examples!
It really seems that the .022 has the most useful and full tone on all settings, plus an interesting vocal wha sound when you sweep... I can't say that would be true in humbuckers, but for bright singles, it's always been the one for me... plus ideally you want to approximate the humbucker tonality with the singles... and it seems to have the most versatile tone in that sense too. Strats have a great ability to distort tube amps with the tone rolled back.
I agree
I personally only liked the .22 in the neck position. The other 2 positions sounded too shrill for my ears.
i didnt get how to instal ... it was better at first you did it... i mean how to instaling capacitors to guitar step by step... not only by map ! can i get help from you ?
Do you have a soldering iron?
Very thankful to you
In dimarzio pickups what is the best uf in your opinion please?
That was great. Thanks you.
Glad you liked it, Thanks for watching! 🎸🎵✨
My guitar is affinity jazzmaster hh, wonder is ts have the same set up inside the electronic, i have very little knowledge on this. I really taking interest in changing the capacitor.
this jazzmaster have single coil pickups the affinity have humbuckers and its different situation, i gues they have 0.022uf if you open up you see in the cap something like 223J
Excellent video. Thank you for your time and trouble. What I take away from it is that I should not bother changing capacitors. The difference made would be not worthwhile. On the other hand, I'm listening to the demo on cellular fone. Pathetic junk as far as sound reproduction goes. AND really, a man should try a new one on his own guitar. They're cheap, it's an easy procedure and lots of folks say it makes a difference. They can't all be wrong.
Get your facts correct! Capacitance does use Farads however the symbol you showed was micro Farads. (The correct symbol has a long 'tail' on the right side of a small u. Caps also come in nano (n), pico(p) and milli(m)
people use u because they dont have the μ the keyboard the "μ" is a letter from the greek alpha-beta μικρό>micro μουσική>music μωρό>moron etc
How did you rewore you guitar to remove tha humming while playing on single pick up bridge only and neck only
first i took off all the stock wiring and put vintage cloth waxed wiring 22awg then i put copper tape on pickguard and inside the guitar
@@StamatisStabos that a big help
if it could do this, can it be placed in a passive crossover?
Excellent comparison! What pickups were you using in your Jazzmaster? What value did you stick with?
Thanks Christian, I have install the Fender 65 Vintage pickups with the 33 capacitor sounds great
@@StamatisStabos Thank you. I recently bought the Q pickup set you demoed, I am experimenting with caps with that set - on your demos were you using the .033 cal as well?
@@christianwilson9677 yes the 033 is the standard cap for Jazzmasters, I used the Pickups for long time very good especially the bridge pickup are more powerful from fender 65
@@StamatisStabos Thank you!
Is the tone knob all the way up in the volume up?
Perfect! Well done!
Bro what potentiometer you use in this demo? Can you do some videos that potentiometer and capacitor mixing? Thanks
I use 1MEG its standard for Jazzmaster guitars its the more open and bright pot