What capacitor for better treble???

[LonePhantom]

I've got a Saga PRS style kit guitar with a set of Mighty Mite Motherbuckers. These pickups are not just hot, they are fukcing hot!!! One issue with them though is that with the current wiring setup they are a little too heavy in the low end and sorely missing a little high end eq.

The capacitor I have currently is a DiMarzio one, burgundy in colour and marked "5F7 223J". Is there a particular capacitor I can get that would give me a little more treble, but not loose too much of the phat lower end?

I am also using a 300K pot for the tone because my local store was short on 500K long shaft pots. This shouldn't be a problem should it? I had to buy Gibson pots for the long shafts and I don't particularly want to buy another one to use a 500K as they are stupidly expensive compared to the DiMarzio ones.

Many thanks for your help.

[bikeman]

Going to 300k pots will fatten the tone slightly, especially when using the tone pot. This isn't what you want by the sound of it.

I think you need to try 500k pots all round, or even 1meg pots if you can. This will add brightness.

The capacitor you have are 0.022uf. To get more treble you need a lower value e.g. 0.01uf. Sprague do the Orange Drop in that lower value.

Good luck with the experimenting!

[LonePhantom]

Thanks for that bikeman, I'll have to see if I can find a 0.01uf capacitor and see if that helps.

[waylay00]

Yeah, def go for 500k pots.

[johnboy30230]

btw you can also run a resistor in there in a parallel or series circut to get some more sounds im still working on it myself so im no expert

[buddroyce]

Ditch the tone pot and the capacitor all together and get a 1Meg Pot. If that's not enough treble for you run a capacitor in series with your output or bridge pickup to filter out the low end.

[buddroyce]

I forgot to mention that ditching the tone pot is only good if you don't use the tone pot at all. In which case you can replace it with something else that you might get more use out of.

[LonePhantom]

I probably would still want to keep the tone pot there so that's probably not the most feasible idea. Maybe I'll just have to fork out the cash for a 500K or higher pot, I'll try the 0.01uf capacitor first though.

[buddroyce]

Go for the new pots first. The 300k pots will still leave your tone muddy and since the capacitor only begins to work AFTER the pots in your signal chain, you're only affecting the already muddied signal.

[LonePhantom]

OK thanks, I guess I'll have to fork out either for a stupidly expensive long shaft Gibson pot or try out a DiMarzio push-pull pot which maybe long enough and give me a splittable option to switch the humbuckers to single coil mode which would be really cool.

[buddroyce]

That would be a much better option since you'll regain more clarity that way.

[LonePhantom]

Thanks for the help, I'll see if I have some spare cash to pick some up this week.

[Zepp3lin]

I thought Tone or Volume pots is way damn cheap. In Australian dollars its a round $1.50 at least in my country and a capacitor with a low uF value can cost around 20cents each.

[LonePhantom]

Cheap, average quality pots are cheap but I'd rather spend more and get good quality items that aren't going to be noisy or scratchy and break after a while.