Orange drop .022 cap 600v on a guitar. Good? Bad? No diff?

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Sorry krankguitarist i do trust your opinion on the matter but i just wanna hear other ppl out as well=)

So there guys, i put a .022j (i think the j stands for +/- 5%) cap @600volts on my guitar. I know nothing about capacitors. I heard though that the volts really don't matter to the tone, but it's just so freaking huge. Do any of you have the same bigass cap on your guitar? Is there really no diff from using a big one and small one as long as the capacitance is the same? For example, a .022k @ 200 volts will sound exactly the same as a .022 @ 600 volts on a guitar? Thanks!

My guitar is an american series tele hh 60th anniv

 

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Re: Orange drop .022 cap 600v on a guitar. Good? Bad? No diff?

I've done an enormous amount of research on this, and while I do believe there's a difference, I don't think it's big enough to worry about. In theory, a cap is a cap, but there are slight differences in tonal quality between some of them, and these differences come from the materials and construction, not the capacitance. So, reasonably, the more material you have, the more cap tone.

Orange Drops are very clear, and I doubt you'd ever hear more tone from a 600v than a 25v. A network of 4 600V Hovlands might make a slight difference, but face it, unless you're Eric Clapton no one's going to be listening that closely. (And even then, I doubt you could hear it in a recording, or even from the 3rd row. We're talking very subtle differences here.)

 

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Re: Orange drop .022 cap 600v on a guitar. Good? Bad? No diff?

I've done an enormous amount of research on this, and while I do believe there's a difference, I don't think it's big enough to worry about. In theory, a cap is a cap, but there are slight differences in tonal quality between some of them, and these differences come from the materials and construction, not the capacitance. So, reasonably, the more material you have, the more cap tone.

Orange Drops are very clear, and I doubt you'd ever hear more tone from a 600v than a 25v. A network of 4 600V Hovlands might make a slight difference, but face it, unless you're Eric Clapton no one's going to be listening that closely. (And even then, I doubt you could hear it in a recording, or even from the 3rd row. We're talking very subtle differences here.)

oh aryt, that sounds good. So there won't be like excess tone or treble filtered out coz it's too big or some stuff like that? Being 600 volts i mean, it's not overkill and won't deteriorate tone? Coz i was wondering there must be a reason that the 100volt was the stock. Sorry i'm really clueless bout these capacitor stuff....

 

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Re: Orange drop .022 cap 600v on a guitar. Good? Bad? No diff?

I've done an enormous amount of research on this, and while I do believe there's a difference, I don't think it's big enough to worry about. In theory, a cap is a cap, but there are slight differences in tonal quality between some of them, and these differences come from the materials and construction, not the capacitance. So, reasonably, the more material you have, the more cap tone.

Orange Drops are very clear, and I doubt you'd ever hear more tone from a 600v than a 25v. A network of 4 600V Hovlands might make a slight difference, but face it, unless you're Eric Clapton no one's going to be listening that closely. (And even then, I doubt you could hear it in a recording, or even from the 3rd row. We're talking very subtle differences here.)

Coz if there is a downside to it being big aside from just taking space, then i'll really change it...