orange drop (no tone pot) jazz/jb wiring

[soultribe]

Hi all,

recently I add on a Jazz and JB humbucker to my Alder body/Maple neck telecaster.
I have been an Active pickups user for the longest time and immediately, I can feel the differents it made.

My question is I intend to put a cap ( orange cap 0.22) into the wiring. to brings up the midrange high.

where should I wire it?

thanks

 

[jeremy]

Re: orange drop (no tone pot) jazz/jb wiring

ummm... adding a .022 cap without a tone control will either kill your high end or bottom end depending on how you wire it. what are you trying to do?

 

[Mincer]

Re: orange drop (no tone pot) jazz/jb wiring

Welcome to the forum!

You don't need a cap in that diagram, unless you have a tone control on your Tele. If you do, then we'll need another diagram for you.

 

[freefrog]

Re: orange drop (no tone pot) jazz/jb wiring

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Hi all,

recently I add on a Jazz and JB humbucker to my Alder body/Maple neck telecaster.
I have been an Active pickups user for the longest time and immediately, I can feel the differents it made.

My question is I intend to put a cap ( orange cap 0.22) into the wiring. to brings up the midrange high.

where should I wire it?

thanks

Hi,

There's two ways to do it:

1-with the cap as a high pass filter, in the Rickenbacker style, in series with the "hot" lead of the pickup(s). It tightens the low range and therefore, it enhances other frequencies.

2-with the cap as a low pass filter, between hot and ground, like Peter Willis (from Def Leppard) did back in the days in his Hamer.

In the two cases, 22nF is a way too high value. Rickenbacker uses 4,7nF caps for situation 1 and the second trick requires 2,2nF or 3.3nF caps.

NOTE - these tricks are rarely applied and don't seem necessary here since a JB has already strong mids... not to mention that the effect number 2 can be mimicked without modding the guitar, with external components (either a very long and highly capacitive cable, either a normal cable from guitar to amp with a small value cap between its hot and ground: the desired effect should start to appear with 1nF or 1,5nF, adding their capacitive value to the "natural" capacitance of the cable).

FWIW.