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Looking for guitar capacitors to enhance the sound of your favorite electric guitar or bass? Look no further! Among Sweetwater’s wide selection of guitar parts, we offer premium guitar capacitors in a range of standard capacitor values. Whether you want to refurbish an old instrument, or you’re choosing components for a new guitar or bass build, you’ll find the right guitar capacitors here.
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While it’s easy to ignore that you even have capacitors in your guitar or bass, they play a big role in your overall tone. Guitar capacitors act as a type of crossover, allowing high frequencies to pass through while cutting low frequencies. By wiring a capacitor between your pickups and output jack, and connecting the capacitor to ground, unwanted highs are sent to ground while lower frequencies are retained in the signal path. With your guitar’s tone pot wired into the circuit pre-capacitor, the tone pot controls how much high-frequency content is rolled off by the capacitor.
Not all guitar capacitors sound the same, even if they share the same values, and you may be surprised at the sonic difference such a small component can make. And while it may seem like swapping out a new capacitor is more effort than it’s worth, if everything else about your instrument is to your liking and you’re looking for that final sonic tweak, your guitar’s tone capacitor may be the perfect change to make.
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Replacing the tone capacitor in your guitar or bass requires some soldering, and if you’re not comfortable with that kind of project, Sweetwater is here to help. Check out the Sweetwater Guitar Workshop and see what we can do for you — from replacing guitar capacitors and pickups to custom work, our expert guitar techs will exceed your expectations.
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With a curated selection of Guitar Capacitors, free shipping, a free 2-year warranty, 24/7 access to award-winning support - and more - Sweetwater gives you more than any other retailer! If you have any questions about Guitar Capacitors, make sure to give your personal Sales Engineer a call at (800) 222-4700.
