Capacitor to beef up Out of Phase middle position on Les Paul

[Chistopher]

I've got a single volume Les Paul copy with the Peter Green out of phase position. I wanted to know if any of y'all had experience with using caps to add girth to a out of phase position on a humbucker guitar. I've done it on strats with a .01uf capacitors for a "half out of phase" tone

 

[vinnie1971]

Re: Capacitor to beef up Out of Phase middle position on Les Paul

I've got a single volume Les Paul copy with the Peter Green out of phase position. I wanted to know if any of y'all had experience with using caps to add girth to a out of phase position on a humbucker guitar. I've done it on strats with a .01uf capacitors for a "half out of phase" tone

Yes , I have a strat where out of phase sounded feeble so I have a 3 way switch middle is in phase, up half out of phase with 0.01 uF cap, down out of phase with .1uF cap which reverses phase cancellation on bass frequencies so sounds like out of phase only beefy and more bass.

Here's a demo of it. Also I demo series parallel switching and using a blend control with out of phase which works a bit like using the independent volume controls on an LP:
https://youtu.be/NVSTyXeOMe8


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[Chistopher]

Re: Capacitor to beef up Out of Phase middle position on Les Paul

I have done that before with strats using a .01uf and I have enjoyed it. I might have to try the .1uf on this guitar though. The .01uf is good for the neck and bridge "Tele combo" if you want to replicate the 2 and 4 positions, but I just want to have a fuller Peter Green Out of phase humbucker tone.

 

[AlexR]

Re: Capacitor to beef up Out of Phase middle position on Les Paul

Also remember that you can adjust volumes on the two pickups.

Yes that does affect the way that the individual pickup sounds if you are doing a lot of position switching, but the OOP tone is incredibly variable based not only on the balance of the 2, but where the actual volumes are positioned.
So in short, the two volumes both at 7 are even, but the OOP tone will be different in nature to the both on 10, or 8.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Capacitor to beef up Out of Phase middle position on Les Paul

Yeah, it's too bad you don't have two volumes, the out of phase on a Les Paul really shines with independent volumes.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: Capacitor to beef up Out of Phase middle position on Les Paul

I've used the out of phase on my Jimmy Page Les Paul a lot, and tended to just use the neck with the bass cut down a bit (it was a copy with a spare knob, so I used it as a bass cut on the neck).