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Villex users- what value capacitor for a Classic bass pickup?

RBrownBass

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Aug 22, 2004
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Here's a photo of their wiring diagram. You can see there's a capacitor attached to the "High" pot control, but it doesn't say what value/rating/whatever it should be. Is it the same as an Orange Drop? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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what on earth?

this is apparently a passive setup, as such a .047μF cap for regular tone pots is pretty normal. if the pickup is a high impedance humbucker than a .022μF cap might be reasonable, it will leave more of the mids in when you roll it way down
Is it the same as an Orange Drop?
"orange drop" is just a name for a certain style of cap manufacture, it has no bearing on which value cap to use
 
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