Pots & Caps Calculator
Pick a potentiometer value/taper and tone capacitor value, tailored to your pickup type, and see a breakdown of the resulting sound and playing experience.
| Tone rolloff (RC model) | 28.9 Hz |
|---|---|
| Pot brightness | warm |
| Cap character | moderate |
Single coils are already bright/thin-leaning; a 250k pot gently rolls off some top end even at full volume/tone — the classic Strat/Tele smoothing effect.
Audio (logarithmic) taper matches how the ear perceives loudness — the sweep feels even and gradual across the full rotation. Standard choice for both volume and tone.
This is the isolated RC low-pass corner frequency (f = 1/2πRC) for the pot+cap pair alone — the real guitar tone circuit forms a resonant network with the pickup’s own inductance, not a simple low-pass. Treat this number as a relative comparison between combinations (lower = darker/more dramatic), not a literal "frequencies above this get cut" reading. Fine-tune the actual cap/pot choice by ear.
Pots & Caps Calculator
- Pickup typesingle-coil
- Pot value250k, audio taper
- Tone cap0.022µF
| Tone rolloff (RC model) | 28.9 Hz |
|---|---|
| Pot brightness | warm |
| Cap character | moderate |
Single coils are already bright/thin-leaning; a 250k pot gently rolls off some top end even at full volume/tone — the classic Strat/Tele smoothing effect.
Audio (logarithmic) taper matches how the ear perceives loudness — the sweep feels even and gradual across the full rotation. Standard choice for both volume and tone.
This is the isolated RC low-pass corner frequency (f = 1/2πRC) for the pot+cap pair alone — the real guitar tone circuit forms a resonant network with the pickup’s own inductance, not a simple low-pass. Treat this number as a relative comparison between combinations (lower = darker/more dramatic), not a literal "frequencies above this get cut" reading. Fine-tune the actual cap/pot choice by ear.