Description
This is the Sprague® Orange Drop .022 Microfarad tone capacitor. Highest quality tone capacitor available! Audio grade Polypropylene dielectric material provides a smooth, wah type tone with no sonic impurities. These are not the low-grade Polyester Orange Drops others sell. The cap is generally used with humbucking pickups.
Features
- Tolerance 5%
- Voltage 200 VDC
- Case length .75 in.
Item Shown: WD Sprague Orange Drop .022UF Tone Capacitor
: WD-022SPRAG
:Â 820454090279
jerrybriand (verified buyer) –
Top quality product but a bit big, ensure you have enough room in your cavity!
vernonscott1965 (verified buyer) –
Worked perfectly!
voyer2008 (verified buyer) –
As Jerry said, it’s a bit big but it is top quality. Interestingly, it made my job easier to some extent for installing it in a semi-hollow since the wiring is very stiff. I can also tell the difference in the tone adjustment compared to the cheap caps that came with my kit.
joebianchi1 (verified buyer) –
I have used these caps numerous times and they are good quality .For a good fit keep the cap close to tone pot.and cut off legs after soldering.
robertloblaw52 –
My 2018 Les Paul TV Yellow DC came with Gibson P90’s, 500K pots and 47MF ceramic disc caps. They pups sounded dark, missing some sparkle in the mids and highs. After mucking about with various combinations, I kept the 500K pots but replaced the caps with 22mf orange drops. I also rewired the controls to “decouple” the bridge and neck pups. I found an article on premierguitar.com showing the wiring (link below). Simply, #1 lug on all 4 pots are grounded to the pot body, #2 lug on the volume pot goes to one of the hot sides of the pup selector switch, and the hot lead from the pup goes to #3 on the volume pot. The cap goes from #3 on the volume pot to # 2 on the respective tone pot and # 1 lug on the tone pot is not connected. The two outside output lugs on the switch are bridged and go to the output jack and the center lug goes to ground – a diagram makes this much simpler but if you have experience wiring pots, it’s pretty simple.
In use, it’s still necessary to have the volume on the bridge pup set at 1 to use the neck pup, and vice-versa, but they otherwise are far more independent than with other wiring combos, and they sound both louder, cleaner and more present than with other wirings, and there are no evident flat spots in the frequency response through the volume range. The other aspect is that the tone controls actualy work and seem to have more range and linearity, at least with P90’s.
Before I did this wiring, every other combo I tried sounded dead in comparison – this was well worth the effort to maximize the tonality of the P90’s.
Here’s a link to the article and diagram https://www.premierguitar.com/diy/mod-garage/les-paul-independent-volume-wiring
Have fun!