What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

[GuitarDoc]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

Depends alot on the pup and the guitar, but I like .022 (sometimes .015).

 

[Domingos]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

the one that is going to be meant to play rock is going to have the alnico pro slash aph2 and i want it to sound great, it's being custom built, the other one(a epiphone special ii) is going to take a pair of entwistle hv58(sorry if i shouldn't be saying this here)

 

[RayBarbeeMusic]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

Seriously, try the .0022uf. I was just playing a 2H solidbody, .0022uf cap rolled all the way down and it sounded for all the world like an L5. F'ing gorgeous, fat, round, delicate, articulate clean tone.

If you use light strings and a bright rig, you might go as high as .0047uf. I never go higher than that on anything anymore. I need a fat but articulate tone, anything larger sounds to me like my amp is burried under the basement. Articulation and mix-cutting ability are gone.

 

[ErikH]

Seriously, try the .0022uf. I was just playing a 2H solidbody, .0022uf cap rolled all the way down and it sounded for all the world like an L5. F'ing gorgeous, fat, round, delicate, articulate clean tone.

If you use light strings and a bright rig, you might go as high as .0047uf. I never go higher than that on anything anymore. I need a fat but articulate tone, anything larger sounds to me like my amp is burried under the basement. Articulation and mix-cutting ability are gone.

Don't you mean .022uf and .047uf? The values you listed are really small.

 

[Domingos]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

I will use 0.022 in both but i'm considering using a pio in the special II, because i read that they make the sound rounder/fatter(maybe the vitamin t) and using good old orange caps in the one with the Pro Slash. What do you think?

 

[RayBarbeeMusic]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

Don't you mean .022uf and .047uf? The values you listed are really small.

No, I absolutely meant .0022uf and .0047uf. .022uf and .047uf sound like a muddy mess to me. Seriously, try it. You'll see what I mean.

 

[blindedbysilence]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

This is what ya want.

http://store.rsguitarworks.net/PWPREMMODKIT-LS.html

 

[ErikH]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

No, I absolutely meant .0022uf and .0047uf. .022uf and .047uf sound like a muddy mess to me. Seriously, try it. You'll see what I mean.

Interesting. Only a couple of my guitars have a tone control but one of them it may work out well in (HH setup). The other with a tone control is a single P-90 with a .022uf tone cap. Rolling it back gets me a pseudo neck like tone.

 

[Domingos]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

This is what ya want.

http://store.rsguitarworks.net/PWPREMMODKIT-LS.html

that would be a good idea hadn't I already ordered two cts pots for the Special II(unfortunately it only has two, is it possible to change it to four?) and four for the custom built LesPaul., right now i have to choose the make and type of the caps . Besides i'm not from the usa i'm from the other side of the atlantic ocean, more exactly from Portugal

 

[blindedbysilence]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

I'd get the .022uf and .015uf caps.

 

[Domingos]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

0.22 for the custom and .015 for the special II? isn't .015uf too low?

 

[blindedbysilence]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

I'd use the .022uf on the bridge slash pickup and the .015uf on the neck pickup.

 

[Domingos]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

thanks, and on the other one?

 

[Domingos]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

By the way what caps should i use in the treble bleed?

 

[Domingos]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

I understand your reluctance to help. Thanks nonetheless

 

[blindedbysilence]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

Sorry I haven't checked back in. Personally I'm not sure what to use for the treble bleed. I have the slash pups and know what sounds good on them.

 

[Domingos]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

I ordered one luxe bumblebee.015 and a .22 for the guitar that is getting the alnico ii Pro Slash, so i'm really curious about how it will sound..

From your experience what do you think about them?

 

[Domingos]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

I ordered one luxe bumblebee.015 and a .22 for the guitar that is getting the alnico ii Pro Slash, so i'm really curious about how it will sound..

From your experience what do you think about them?

Ok, so after a few months with the bumblebees I took them off because the sound was too "closed" too "muffled" for my taste, It now has a couple of .047 sprague orange drops, and they're not that bad. Specially considering the difference in price.

 

[Marcioonida]

Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

Slash uses .022 as seen on a seymour duncan's youtube video, fixing Slash's original AFD original guitar.