Tone caps?????

[GuitarDoyle]

Anyone have preferences for caps and brand? I have gone through some vitamin Qs, Orange drop 225

and orange drop 715(polypropylene), and mallory .022 (150) and really don't hear a difference, especially in a band situation!

Even the ceramic caps on some of my guitars are fine! What does Hamer use? Looks like a little small cap...dot or something.

Thanks!

GD

[HSB0531]

The types that don't sound good seem to be Tantalum & electrolytic.

Polypropylene & Mylar are good.

[anotherfreak]

If they are the some value, it would be next to impossible to tell the difference.

some are just more expensive du to manufacturing/materials/country of origin/cork sniffery

especially in the guitar

[GuitarDoyle]

I agree! I was using the stock ceramics, then tried the Orange Drop Polyester 225s. I was told the Orange Drtop Polypropylene 715 werte better but I'll be damned if I hear a difference! I even bought some Hovlands which do kind of add a bright hi fi - ness to the sound, maybe! I tried some Vitamin Q caps and again....I'll be damned if I notice anything! I'd rather concentrate on playing.

I ended up ordering some of those small dots from BCR Greg. They are really small and I think .010, but fine for the neck and so small, easy to work with. I just kept the Vit Qs and 715s in the bridge since I bought them. LOL.

I even stopped experimenting much with pickups, especially the cork sniffer boutique stuff. I think Duncan, Rio Grande, Dimarzio, Gibson and PRS are all good enough for me....plus they are everywhere used.

[JGale]

I, on the other hand, prefer the RS paper in oil caps. They give a nice lazy, hazy, crazy dayz of summer honk to the output when turned down and the gain is low.

[anotherfreak]

I made a rotary switch with 6 different caps all the same value, just different materials/makes.

I noticed the switch made noise, that's all I could tell

[HSB0531]

I use 3 volumes & no tone.

I do all the adjustments at the pre-amp.

Then again I play bass.

[GuitarDoyle]

Another Freak,

Did you have any Orange Drop 225 caps? These are the polyester, not the 715 polypropylenes. They are so readily available I just use these! Heck, I have stock Gibsons and PRS models with ceramics that sound wonderful. I agree with you!

[anotherfreak]

I'll have to look, it was a couple of years ago, when I was reading a lot of BS from some pedal builders, and working with a student with one of his builds. I seem to aquire all this crap, and it was a great experiment. I'm sure I still have it.

[cmatthes]

I'm still using the yellow M&Ms.

[GuitarDoyle]

Freak, any luck man?