black winters in bright hardtail strat - caps?

[overwound]

little by little I've laid out a plan with help from the board.

This is what I'm doing:
Black Winter in bridge of a very bright hardtail strat with a maple board

-500K vol pot
-500K no-load cts Tone pot wired to the black winter only (I'm a big fan of the fender no-load tone and want to try this out on a humbucker)

In this scenario - would you do a .047 cap on the bw? I've never messed with cap values but I know most SD diagrams recommend the 47. Just wondering if the bright guitar changes your mind.

(the other 2 pickups will be dimarzio Areas in neck and middle; planning to introduce a 470K resistor to cut the 500K volume close to 250K for them)

 

[Demanic]

Re: black winters in bright hardtail strat - caps?

I don't think that the Winter will care. Running it strait in should sound quite interesting.

 

[overwound]

Re: black winters in bright hardtail strat - caps?

Rockin. Alright so the plan will be throw a .047 on the black winter and .022 uf on the Areas. should be a wild ride.

 

[dominus]

Re: black winters in bright hardtail strat - caps?

Typically you do .047s on single coils and .022s on humbuckers.

 

[overwound]

Re: black winters in bright hardtail strat - caps?

that's one reason I was confused - All the SD diagrams I've seen (like this: http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=HSS_1v_1t_5w) seem to have a .047 on the humbucker. And over on the strat forums people are always saying .022 for single coils. So what's the word here?

 

[overwound]

Re: black winters in bright hardtail strat - caps?

I think I've been using a thread as reference where .022 was the recommendation for single coils. So maybe my wires are crossed here pardon the pun. But I still am in the dark as to why a lot of SD diagrams show the 47 for humbuckers?

 

[Demanic]

Re: black winters in bright hardtail strat - caps?

I used to know the answer to this. Damn Friday night amnesia!

 

[overwound]

Re: black winters in bright hardtail strat - caps?

welp, as I thought I recalled from the few times I took apart my strats (all american standards) - they come stock wish .022uf caps ?????
http://support.fender.com/service_diagrams/stratocaster/010-7400_02C_SISD.pdf

i'm thoroughly confused now

 

[dominus]

Re: black winters in bright hardtail strat - caps?

that's one reason I was confused - All the SD diagrams I've seen (like this: http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=HSS_1v_1t_5w) seem to have a .047 on the humbucker. And over on the strat forums people are always saying .022 for single coils. So what's the word here?

The higher the value, the more highs get rolled off. Since single coils are considered to be brighter sounding, you'd go with a higher value to roll off the highs. Depends on what you want to do.

Personally, I wire pickups straight to the jack. I never use the volume or tone controls.