Tone Caps
If you’re already under the hood of your instrument, grab a few tone caps to play with. These are great, inexpensive ways to shape your tone to your liking!
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Shape your pickup’s tone the easy way with our high-quality tone caps! From our Paper and Oil caps to our simple Ceramic Disc caps, you can achieve a wide array of tonal versatility, on a budget.
Check out our article here on how Tone Capacitors work, and which value to choose.
Check out our modification here, where you can select two-tone caps with a push-pull pot.
Available Models
- Fralin Magic Cap: Lindy’s favorite cap to boost the midrange of a shrill single-coil pickup. This value is extremely subtle and tends to work on bright pickups only.
- .0022: Great for bridge pickups and bright sounding guitars, this cap will boost your midrange and tame a few of your high frequencies. It’s a little stronger tone than our Magic Cap.
- .02mfd: This popular cap is very usable throughout the entire pickup line, and works well on Humbuckers and Single Coil pickups. Gibson and Fender use this cap as a standard for more modern guitars.
- .05 / .047mfd: This popular cap works well with Humbuckers and Single Coils and goes pretty deep into the upper midrange. Use this cap if you want a warmer jazz tone from your pickups. You’ll see this cap used on vintage Fender Telecasters and Strats frequently.
- 1mfd: This cap will provide the deepest roll-off available. You will find this value in vintage instruments. The roll-off of high frequencies will start quicker and go deeper into the midrange than the other capacitors offered.
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Hi, I have a set of Fralin P90 noiseless mounted on a gibson ES339. I find it’s too much midrange and want to have a bit more treble. Van I correct this with capacitor?
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Q Hi, I have a set of Fralin P90 noiseless mounted on a gibson ES339. I find it’s too much midrange...... Read moreA Hey Jari, before digging into the electronics, try backing away the bass side of the pickups a bit more. You'll find that the pickup height can clean up your tone substantially. After that, make sure you have 500K pots in your guitar. If you do, you can change the volume pots to 1 Meg to get a touch more brightness. The capacitor isn't going to make much difference.
Hey! I have a rather unique question. I have a 70s Univox les Paul copy that's fitted with vintage mosrite pickups. I'm rewiring due to some issues with soldering joints and wanted to see what'd you'd recommend for the bridge and neck tone cap values.
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Q Hey! I have a rather unique question. I have a 70s Univox les Paul copy that's fitted with vintag...... Read moreA
Hey Jimmy, we recommend 0.02mfd caps for your set up. That will give you a really versatile sweep without getting too dark or giving you too little.
Hey, I've got an Ash body Strat with a Maple neck with the Steel Pole 42's in the Neck and Middle and a High Output Strat w/baseplate in the Bridge. It Currently has the Fender .1 MFD tone cap which sounded great with the original late 50's pups, but now I always leave the tone on 10 (it also has a blender). The Steel 42's sound incredible and took away the shrill high end. Honestly the pups sound basically perfect as they are, but it would be ni...
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Q Hey, I've got an Ash body Strat with a Maple neck with the Steel Pole 42's in the Neck and Middle...... Read moreA
I'd recommend a 0.02 tone cap. If you need more overall brightness, I recommend changing from a 250K volume pot to a 300K volume pot.
Hi… Is there a standard cap to use for the split series jazz bass p’ups? I’ve got the stock neck p’up and 5% overwind on the bridge p’up. Regards Phil S
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Q Hi… Is there a standard cap to use for the split series jazz bass p’ups? I’ve got the stock neck ...... Read moreA
Hey Phil, we always recommend either 0.02mfd or 0.047mfd - 0.02 is the standard, but if you need more roll-off, the 0.047 will provide that.
Is it necessary to even use a cap.? I see they come in different voltages as well. What would i want to use for a p/j bass setup. Do I even need a cap?
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Q Is it necessary to even use a cap.? I see they come in different voltages as well. What would i w...... Read moreA
Hey Rich, if you want a tone control, you need a tone cap. If you don't use your tone, you can forego a tone cap. I would recommend using a 0.02 cap for a P/J setup - it's a good balance of tapering highs without going too deep into the midrange. Regarding Cap Voltages, you don't need to pay attention to this as guitar and bass pickups produce millivolts - unlike in a guitar amp, where cap voltage is very important.
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