Do you prefer caps on your volume pots or not?

Re: Do you prefer caps on your volume pots or not?

ArtieToo said:
Hey GJ; The "mod" you're refering to is the "treble-bleed" mod, and for that, you're using way too large of a cap. Thats why you're getting the oddball volume behavior. You should be using .002uf or maybe .001uf.

Your values are almost 10x too high. (Just my 2-cents worth.) ;)

Artie
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Except he said he got 0.01 & 0.02 pF caps. uF i supposed to be micro farads right? If it is then that would make his values about 100,000x too small.
The prefixes go:
milli 10^-3 mF
micro 10^-6 µF
nano 10^-9 nF
pico 10^-12 pF

If I'm wrong about any of this I sincerely apologise.
 
Re: Do you prefer caps on your volume pots or not?

Your prefix's are dead on . . . but you saw his post after he editted it to reflect the proper values. ;)

No apology necessary. :)

Artie
 
Re: Do you prefer caps on your volume pots or not?

Forgive me for being uneducated.... but what do capacitors on volume pots... do...?
 
Re: Do you prefer caps on your volume pots or not?

Slash2987 said:
Forgive me for being uneducated.... but what do capacitors on volume pots... do...?
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Small values are used to retain highend in the signal for when you volume down on your guitar's volume control...Values from say 180pf all the way up to 1000pf(.001)....
 
Re: Do you prefer caps on your volume pots or not?

Or, to put it another way . . .

If electricity was colored water, then:

wire would be pipe.
resistors would be preset valves.
capacitors would be like valves that only let certain colors through.
pots are adjustable valves.

The volume pot adjusts how much of the colored water gets out.
The cap allows certain colors to bypass the valve and flow at full rate.

Dimebuckers have more flow than AII Pros.
AII Pro's have prettier colors. :)

Artie
 
Re: Do you prefer caps on your volume pots or not?

ArtieToo said:
Or, to put it another way . . .

If electricity was colored water, then:

wire would be pipe.
resistors would be preset valves.
capacitors would be like valves that only let certain colors through.
pots are adjustable valves.

The volume pot adjusts how much of the colored water gets out.
The cap allows certain colors to bypass the valve and flow at full rate.

Dimebuckers have more flow than AII Pros.
AII Pro's have prettier colors. :)

Artie
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Whoa! :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:
What color is a TwangBanger, Artie?
 
Re: Do you prefer caps on your volume pots or not?

ArtieToo said:
Or, to put it another way . . .

If electricity was colored water, then:

wire would be pipe.
resistors would be preset valves.
capacitors would be like valves that only let certain colors through.
pots are adjustable valves.

The volume pot adjusts how much of the colored water gets out.
The cap allows certain colors to bypass the valve and flow at full rate.

Dimebuckers have more flow than AII Pros.
AII Pro's have prettier colors. :)

Artie
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Artie.....Oh Boy!? LOL :smack: :laugh2:
 
Re: Do you prefer caps on your volume pots or not?

Actually, I didn't edit the part of my first post that mentioned what caps I bought.
I have .01 and .02 uF ........the u is like a backwards y That's pico Farad, right?

So, you're saying I need .001 uF?

Ok, let me get down to brass tacks.......What should I do with my LP's and Strats to get a perfectly uniform roll-down, where the tone sounds the same as on 10, but linear all the way down to 0? Maybe that should have been my first post.
 
Re: Do you prefer caps on your volume pots or not?

Gearjoneser said:
Actually, I didn't edit the part of my first post that mentioned what caps I bought.
I have .01 and .02 uF ........the u is like a backwards y That's pico Farad, right?
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Actually, uf means microfarad, like APB4 said above. Picofarad (pf) is 100,000 times smaller. I believe uf is what you want.
 
Re: Do you prefer caps on your volume pots or not?

Yep GJ, you want a .001 microfarad cap, maybe a little smaller. The .01 mf cap is passing far too much top end out of the guitar which is why your sweep is messed up.
 
Re: Do you prefer caps on your volume pots or not?

Lately I've been leaning towards the 50's mod, but for treble-bleed circuits, I find that running a resistor in serial (NOT parallel) with the cap (.001 or so) works better than the cap alone. The problem is that the cap alone can cause too much treble to bleed through when rolling down the volume, and running the resistor in serial with the cap reduces the strength of the treble that bypasses the pot:

http://www.kinman.com/html/toneWorkshop/perfectGuitar.htm
 
Re: Do you prefer caps on your volume pots or not?

do have caps in my pots. I don't know why I wanted them in .. so i gotten these RS kits and frankly speaking I don't hear much of a difference.
 
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