Capacitors values

[Gibsg]

Hi,

Do you know the capacitors value on a SG Standard? I have 0,33µF do you think it will be ok for the filter?

And I' ve got an €piphone ES-335 style body with P90 pickups. With those pickups are capacitors higher value or lower? Thankse

 

[donepearce]

Hi,

Do you know the capacitors value on a SG Standard? I have 0,33µF do you think it will be ok for the filter?

And I' ve got an €piphone ES-335 style body with P90 pickups. With those pickups are capacitors higher value or lower? Thankse

Those are much too big - the tone will be really muffled with those. You should get 0.022µF caps if you want to be standard. Personally I would try a bunch of values and see what I liked the sound of.

 

[Tobacco Worm]

Gibsg,

Kinda curious here. Are you dissatisfied with your current tone controls on your instrument or are you just looking for a change? Guess what I'm saying is, if it's not broke why fix it?

Don's right on the money as always.
The standard for years has been .022uF with the Gibson/Epiphone wiring in the tone. But this does vary from model to model at times....

 

[Kris Ford]

I do use a .033 cap in my minihumbucker equipped '72 SG-I to get more croak when the tone rolled back to get a bassier, more doomy sound..but it has 500K pots, works for that guitar...it came from a mid sixties EB0 (.033 was the stock cap for bass guitars), if that tells you how low they can go lol.