Stingray Special 5 + Darkglass Tone Capsule

I was expecting good things from the Tone Capsule as a Darkglass fan, but I was blown away by how excellent this preamp is. The EQ points are really well chosen - I was sceptical at first with the two mid range points but they have exceptional utility. The bass gives big heft as you’d expect but the low mid (500Hz) gets rid of honkiness in the classic Darkglass fashion, and the high mid accentuates grit and attack. I have not missed a treble control at all.

I have this installed in a Stingray Special 5 and the preamp is significantly clearer and open compared to stock. I’d been fighting the tone of it for some time and the Tone Capsule let the natural tone shine through. Also, with the screw terminals no soldering of the preamp is required so install is painless on the Darkglass side of things.

Result is that it all sounds phenomenal. I’m really chuffed with it.


Below this line is all technical things
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Wiring the rest of it was a total pain in the butt as it’s hard to figure out EBMM’s wiring colours and match them to Seymour Duncan’s switching - I tried several times to match it but ended up trying a different scheme but the image below is right with the designations.

For brevity, EBMM’s colours are:

North Start: Blue
North Finish: Orange
South Start: White
South Finish: Black

Mapping to Seymour Duncan’s wiring is:

EBMM - Blue = Black SD
EBMM - Orange = White SD
EBMM - White = Red SD
EBMM - Black = Green SD



This is the scheme that actually works: