Tone Pot Cap Values: Update after tests!

[moltenmetalburn]

Those are really useful charts man, where did you find those???

I have acquired so much data in the last 5 years or so I couldn't tell you off hand... I have gigs of guitar related crap... I am obsessed.



Hmm I was just thinking, if you wired both humbuckers as above AND add a 6 cap rotary selector across the output jack you could have over 600 available sounds with one guitar. It would serve no real purpose live, but would make a great studio guitar!

 

[stratotone]

I hate guitar tone controls, never use em.

Pete

 

[jmgman69]

Aren't they used just to cover them extra holes in an LP

 

[David_kessler]

Kinda like this?

http://www.stellartone.com/index.asp

you might like to try this:

Altering Pickup Characteristics

Change the external load. This method is inexpensive but can be very effective. With only a little expense for electronic components, the sound can be shaped within wide limits. Standard tone controls lower the resonant frequency by connecting a capacitor in parallel with the pickup (usually through a variable resistor to give some control over how much the capacitor affects the pickup). Therefore, one way to change the sound is to replace the standard tone control potentiometer with a rotary switch that connects different capacitors across the pickup (a recommended range is 470 pF to 10 nF). This will give you much more sound variation than a standard tone control (Fig. 8).

SO basically get a rotary switch that can handle 6 capacitors, put it where a tone pot used to be, connect the common tabs on the rotary across the positive and ground.

 

[moltenmetalburn]

Kinda like this?

http://www.stellartone.com/index.asp

you might like to try this:

Altering Pickup Characteristics

Change the external load. This method is inexpensive but can be very effective. With only a little expense for electronic components, the sound can be shaped within wide limits. Standard tone controls lower the resonant frequency by connecting a capacitor in parallel with the pickup (usually through a variable resistor to give some control over how much the capacitor affects the pickup). Therefore, one way to change the sound is to replace the standard tone control potentiometer with a rotary switch that connects different capacitors across the pickup (a recommended range is 470 pF to 10 nF). This will give you much more sound variation than a standard tone control (Fig. 8).

yup that would be the same thing, only far more expensive than doing it yourself.

The original tone circuit based on capacitance I'm pretty sure was the Gibson varitone switch.



SO basically get a rotary switch that can handle 6 capacitors, put it where a tone pot used to be, connect the common tabs on the rotary across the positive and ground.