☑ Dual Capacitor Strat

If you always play with your tone pot wide open none of this matters. You can see on the standard strat wiring scheme that both tone pots share a common tone capacitor and both pots are also of the same value.

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The guitar i used to demo the caps has passive single coil pickups but the principle is the same with humbuckers and even active pickups.

Dual capacitor strat. Because there is only one tone capacitor the two tone controls are wired in series. Ive discussed capacitors in general a few times before and those earlier columns are a good place to start if you want to find out more about tone caps for guitars and how to determine the best value for you. Made from kraft paper tin foil and resin yellows produce the classic fender tweed tone in all its glory smooth highs fat bass and rich midrange swirl.

Genuine fender yellow amplifier capacitor 1uf 200v 50s replica astron caps were used in mid to late 50s fender tweed amps and in some early 60s blonde and brown amps. This is a test of three different orange drop capacitors for use as tone controls on an electric guitar. I am not much of a mylar or polyester cap fan.

Hello and welcome back to mod garage recently ive received a lot of emails about tone caps for stratocasters. Ceramic disc caps can also sound nice as they have a slightly harder spitey sound. Maybe the bridge pickup has its own tone knob and capacitor with the dual capacitor wiring it doesnt matter the values of the two caps i go for around 022 for neck and middle and around 047 for bridge.

I like using them in an ash body strat with a maple neck. The capacitor only contributes to guitars tone when you lower the tone pot. Also check out the pmt passive dual mode tone control that expands the function and range of your tone.

Although 033 and 047 can also work well. I prefer to wire a strat with 1 vol 1 tone 1 blend. This means that each of the tone controls has the same frequency response curve.

I prefer the 022 cap is the master tone for all 3 pups. The values tested were 01mf 022mf and 047mf. Looks like a dual capacitor wiring but grounded differently and the bottom pots wire to the switch isnt in the middle lug or resistor.

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