Potentiometer and capacitor values?

[BadgerDave]

I'm putting together a guitar with P-90s in the neck and middle positions and a humbucker in the bridge. The humbucker will be splittable. I like to use my neck pickup a lot, mostly for big clean tones, the neck and middle for stratty quack, and the bridge humbucker for leads.

It will have one volume, one tone and a five way switch.

So, I'm thinking that 250 pots and a .022 cap would suit the P-90s best and wouldn't have that much of an impact on the humbucker (since the controls will be on 10 99% of the time both coils are active).

Can I get a logic check on this? Would you do it differently?

[Lockbody]

500k volume, 250k tone. I really liked this combo in the SG Classic I had.

[gorch]

500k for both pots and pickups I'd say.

[dragan]

http://www.seymourduncan.com/tonefiend/guitar/customize-your-caps/ maybe you already know all this , but I thought it was infomative

[velorush]

http://www.seymourduncan.com/tonefiend/guitar/customize-your-caps/ maybe you already know all this , but I thought it was infomative

Very good article, but I disagree with this statement: "The capacitor only contributes to guitar’s tone when you lower the tone pot. If you always play with your tone pot wide open, none of this matters."

We've had this discussion before. The statement is true only in the case of a no-load Tone potentiometer. Otherwise (i.e., with a conventional Tone pot), treble frequencies continue to be shunted to ground with the Tone control on 10, just not so much.

[Armitage]

With 500k tone pots, (depending on what you're plugging into) most people can't tell if you short the cap out or remove it. With 250k pots most anyone can tell.