Please don't shout at me if this has been covered elsewhere but I've been looking through the CBN corridors and back rooms for a half hour before asking.
I want to wire up a single coil to a volume, tone and jack. I haven't got any capacitors and all the diagrams I'm finding have a capacitor in the rig. Can anyone please help me with this? Literally, what solders to where when using a single coil pickup, volume, tone and jack socket? I don't want to buy a capacitor as that would mean delays and I'm impatient haha.
Thanks for your help and best regards to you all.
Signed,
The nuisance Bear.
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Something to think about with paper in oil capacitors, is that they dry out. So , with that said, if you buy a vintage one that’s 40 -50 years old, it may be at the end of its life cycle? Although there are newer manufacture bumblebee Gibson style ones out there if you don’t mind the price?
Thanks Brian. I bought some 0.047 Mylar film ones (they come as a set of two) even though I have no idea what they sound like. The ebay listing said they're good for single coils anyway. Pure "eenie, meenie, minee, mo" stuff. Very technical reason for buying it haha.
Thanks again for the help. I really do appreciate it.
The standard is usually 0.022uF, 0.047uF will be a little warmer reminiscent of vintage tone. It’s good to experiment though, everyone has their own preferences? Cheers
That's really good news actually as it's a vintage style pickup modelled on the old type gold foils. I may just use the diagram you provided for wiring without a capacitor and just a volume now though (even though I've already bought the capacitors) because I'd like to show the true tone of the actual pickup since they're a boutique pickup. So, even more thanks go to you for the diagram and all your help.
Thanks Brian and all the best to you.
Bear :o)
Thanks Brian .That may well help if I chicken out of adding a capacitor. I'm tempted to just have the tone there purely for decoration as I've already spent all day making a control panel and added the holes and potentiometers to the panel. Live and learn! Haha. Thanks again my good man.
You might as well just wire up a volume control, without a capacitor,it’s just two volumes?
Looking at the back of the pot:
Left terminal- pickup positive/in
Middle terminal- signal out
Right terminal- soldered to back of pot/ground
maybe try following the diagram sans the capacitor & add it in when you get it?
Yeah just looking at capacitors on eBay now. I didn't realise what the capacitor was for. Lesson learned. :o)
Thanks for helping and best regards.
Bear
If I'm not mistaken and you do not use a capacitor the tone pot will work like a volume pot. For volume only try this.
Ah. I didn't know that not using one would make the tone act as a volume Looks like I need to buy a capacitor then. Any recommendations? It's a gold foil vintage style pickup and I'm using a 250k potentiometer for both the tone and volume controls.
Thanks for your help and for teaching me why capacitors are used. I had no idea. Much appreciated.
Bear.
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