Lollar Pickups | 2 years ago
Chapter timestamps below.
Tone Truth is a series from Lollar Pickups where we dive into murky topics that often confuse, confound, and complicate the facts surrounding guitar electronics. The idea is to strip back the fluff and pomp often associated with getting great tone and offer just the basic information needed to help players make educated decisions when choosing and assembling the best components for their individual needs.
In this edition of Tone Truth, we take on capacitor material and its relevance to your tone. Does cap material affect your tone? If so, how and how much does it impart its fingerprint onto your sound? Is one material objectively better than others? How do different materials sound in relation to one another?
We know this is a touchy subject for some musicians, and we respect that. We know that some people may see/hear what we present here and perceive something completely different than others. Your personal opinions on the matter are completely valid, as they pertain to your own setup. Whatever you feel is the best is, in fact, best -- *FOR YOU* -- and we're not interested in changing anyone's mind.
We won't hinder your personal choices with our opinions; we're just here to offer as unfiltered and unbiased a demonstration as possible. We record a couple riffs and then re-amp them through three different capacitors (Mustard Cap, Bumblebee, and Orange Drop), with the tone knob in 100%, 50%, and 0% settings. We also record the signal through clean and dirty amp models, all to demonstrate what, if any difference it may have.
TIMESTAMPS:
Intro - 0:00
What do caps do - 0:59
Premise for experiment - 2:27
Method/signal chain - 3:00
Recording direct guitar parts - 6:00
Re-amping guitar tracks - 6:42
Playback of re-amped tracks - 7:11
Capacitor reveal - 10:09
Conclusion - 10:36
Closing and contact info - 11:35
