What caps to use with Slash AIIps?

[Fozzy2616]

Got a wicked bug for some Sweet tone checking out utoob clips and then Slash on Monday night football. Not really trying cop Slash's sound, but just want that sweet thick tone outta my LP. So, gonna try some slash AIIps.
Im assuming I should run 500k pots. What caps would you recommend? I usually run .022 orange drops..

I have a 2008 Slash Signature Les Paul, with the stock APH2 pickups , comes stock with small ceramic .22 caps, sounds great \m/

 

[Sam SG]

Ive got .022 orange drops in my two SGs and Charvel( prs'ish looking bolt neck import guitar) A ceramic .022 in my LP Jr, Ceramic .022 in my HSS strat, vintage poly cap I had in my Tele.
Honestly I dont think the type really makes a differance in a passive circuit like a guitar, value does make a differance for sure though.
I have a few old paper and oil caps around was gonna try um... but I dont forsee noticing anything.

 

[Señor Verde]

Some folks can't hear a difference between material types, others say they can. There are different types of orange drops, polyester and polypropylene. There was a pic of Slash's old guitar that had a polyester orange drop cap. I also remember seeing picks of a more recent Slash model that used 715P polypropylene. Maybe try both. They're inexpensive and easy to swap.

 

[Chistopher]

Some folks can't hear a difference between material types, others say they can.

You absolutely can hear the difference between caps of the same nominal value of you get unlucky with the tolerance. An 22 nF orange drop at the bottom of its range and a bumble bee at the top of its tolerance are 19.8 nF and 26.4 nF respectively.

Now if you measure two 22 nF caps, both at 22.1 nF, material be damned they are going to sound identical. They may drift differently through the years though

 

[Mincer]

If the caps are the same value, I can't tell what they are made of...they sound the same to me.