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    Default 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).
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    Rule of thumb... the more pot you have, the better your tone.

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    Default 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)
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    Default 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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RayBarbeeMusic View Post
    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.

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    Default 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?

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    Default 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.

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

    Hard Rock - gain on 5 - singing about good times.

    Heavy Metal - gain on 10 - screaming about something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RayBarbeeMusic View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blindedbysilence View Post
    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
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    Default Re: What caps should be used with Alnico II Pro Slash APH-2

    I'd get the .022uf and .015uf caps.
    Hard Rock - gain on 5 - singing about good times.

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    Default 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?

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    Default 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.
    Hard Rock - gain on 5 - singing about good times.

    Heavy Metal - gain on 10 - screaming about something.

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

    thanks, and on the other one?

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    Default 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?

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

    I understand your reluctance to help. Thanks nonetheless

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    Default 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.
    Hard Rock - gain on 5 - singing about good times.

    Heavy Metal - gain on 10 - screaming about something.

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    That's like taking a Ferrari to a mud bog.--Ginormous

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    Default 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?

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

    Quote Originally Posted by Domingos View Post
    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.

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