Mods To The Capacitor On Jaguar Rhythm Circuit?

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Mike
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Post by Mike »

Yup! - Details in this thread back when I owned it:

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I wanted something simple and easily reverseable that gave me max brightness from the neck pickup. I like it spanky!
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Excellent - thanks for the link. 8) What effect did it have on the tone control's sweep and range?
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Post by Mike »

Pretty much negated it all except for taking of the smidge of treble at the very top end, but that was what I was aiming for - I wanted full brightness Neck pickup at one switch flip.

I wouldn't recommend my mod if you actually want to use the tone control on the Rhythm circuit.
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Hi, new to the forum here. I was browsing topics and find this one interesting. Considering that a 50k tone pot is used on the Jag's rhythm circuit, along with a .01uF tone capacitor, could any detail/clarity/high end be added by simply going to a smaller value tone cap, like a .0082uF? I'm thinking that might be an option to make the rhythm circuit more usable (while still retaining a darker sound than the lead circuit), but I'm wondering if anyone has tried something like that. Or I could be all wet... :?