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Black Ice Overdrive - Mini passive guitar overdrive circuit.
• Use with high-output (10K ohms or more) single-coil or humbucking pickups and a 250K control pot. Not for use in active pickup systems.

Luxe Capacitors - Vintage Fender Reproductions
• For P-Bass: '51-'58, '57-'58, '58-'62, '61-'68, '64-'70, '69-'73
• For Jazz Bass: '60-'61, '61-'62, '68-'70

Metallised Polyester Film 100v Capacitors
• High Accuracy: ±5%, Long-Life Polyester Film Capacitor
• Wide Operating Temperature Range: -55°C to +125°C
• Dielectric Withstand: 1.6x Rated Voltage

Mylar Low Voltage Capacitors - 100v
• Stable Accuracy: ±10%. Inexpensive Mylar Capacitor
• Wide Operating Temperature Range: -40°C to +85°C
• Dielectric Withstand: 1.5x Rated Voltage

Mylar High Voltage Capacitors - 250v - 400v - 630v
• Stable Accuracy: ±10%. Inexpensive Mylar Capacitor
• Wide Operating Temperature Range: -40°C to +85°C
• Dielectric Withstand: 1.5x Rated Voltage

Sprague Orange Drop 225P/100V Series Capacitors
• Polypropylene Film, Radial leads, +/-5% tolerance
• Most common: .047µF, .033µF, .022µF, .015µF, .010µF

Vitamin Q 400V Oil Paper Capacitors
• For those that prefer the vintage look and tone these are reproductions.

Xicon Polyester Film Capacitors
• High grade capacitors. 5% tolerance. 100VDC voltage rating.

Microfarad


Articles & Discussions

Understanding Guitar Wiring - Stewart-MacDonald's Electronics Info
What is a capacitor and how does it work?

Sprague Orange Drop Capacitors - Worth it? - TalkBass Discussion
Is there any real reason to replace stock capacitors with Orange Drop caps or is it just hearsay?

Sprague Orange Drop - 600V or 200V - The Gear Page Discussion
The voltage rating will not affect the primary capitance value, but it does affect the construction, which in turn affects all the second order elements that make caps sound different, IOW all the values shown in this basic capacitor model below. So a 600V cap may sound different than a 200V cap for that reason, or it may be insignificant. You just have to listen.

Ceramic disk Tone Caps vs. Sprague Orange drop tone caps
In a passive tone-cut circuit in a guitar, there will be absolutely zero perceptible sonic advantage to using an Orange Drop over the ten-cent green mylar caps that come OEM in everything.

Let's Cut the Bullshit~!

CAPACITOR VOODOO - Jack Hoagland
Since no one really understands how capacitors work, it's kind of the "voodoo" of the wiring harness. But it's really very simple when it's explained in English: Capacitors cut the treble. Period. That's it. Oh, sure, it's a bit more complex than that . . . read it . . .

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