Changing a capacitor - what does it actualy do to the sound?

[Liam]

Originally Posted by weirdotis

Why would you buy one cap over another? Like Vitamin Qs over Bumblebees, or vice versa.

Because they all sound quite different. Not just when you've rolled the tone control off (although differences get bigger when you do), but even with the tone control on full. But you really have to experiment to see what you like...

[Davey Rockets]

Originally Posted by weirdotis

Why would you buy one cap over another? Like Vitamin Qs over Bumblebees, or vice versa.

I think it's a matter of what you like best.. kinda like, which strings are best for you?

I had some paper in oil caps that just didn't do it for me. I got some Orange Drops, and they DID do it for.

the next guy to post might tell you the exact opposite, it's a matter of what your ears like. My ears like Orange Drops.

[.Jamison]

Originally Posted by LoKi

One of the best things you can do to your tone, if you want a full pickup sound is to take the tone control right out of the circuit... or better yet, the volume control too. Straight to the jack... EVH could tell you more about it.

Not my thing, I prefer to have a few tonal options... but I might cut the tone control off my bridge pickup, just to try it. I'm more of a neck player anyway, and that tone control gets a workout.

HELL YA! I took the tone knob outta my les paul and it sounds so much better! I even took out the neck pickup and all i have now is a single volume knob and a killswitch! SO MUCH BETTER! although the caps i was using were made in a sweatshop sometime in 1967 along with the guitar which is a lawsuit copy