Caps for Vintage Sound w/ '59s in a LP?

[JamesPaul]

Having the Seths in my Dot has convinced me that I really need an accurate, vintage sounding LP in my arsenal. I did some fourm searching and monitoring of both the Trading Post and the 'Bay. I ended up with a good looking set of '59s (another shout of thanks to B Bent here) for this task. I also decided I'd target my Gibson LP Classic for these '59s.

I finally got the time to make the swap tonight, only I waffled on pulling the trigger once I got the control cover off. The LP Classic has 500K pots and .022 microFarad caps, while the SD docs spec .047 caps for/by default. Now I put in my due dilligence and searched the forums for cap tips. I understand how caps affect which frequencies roll off with the tone knob. Since I'm used to brighter sounding pups in my LPs anyway, I was going to go for it with the .022 caps. Well, that coupled with the fact Lew :bowdown: recommends .022's for retaining the pup's mids.

But since I'll have the iron out, tinned, soldering and the control cavity cover off, here's my question. Has anyone gone with the .022's and had to switch to .047 caps to be happy with the tone they get out of '59s? Again I'm talking a vintage tone slant here - not expecting any extra heat.

As always bros, thanks for your help.

 

[LoFiBrian]

Re: Caps for Vintage Sound w/ '59s in a LP?

This past week after some debate and going CTS and Switchcraft anyways...a good idea after starting to go cheap...

I went .022 from a cheapo.047 in my hamer...

It gave me a more useful sweep in my tone control and overall a less high end feel and the low mids content is richer and just makes my cleans more amazing sounding it seems...

while its all still a honeymoon...I'm sold I believe

 

[jeremy]

Re: Caps for Vintage Sound w/ '59s in a LP?

i never go any higher than .022 anymore, typically .015 to .022 is the range that is most usable for me