Bumblebees...are they worth the hype?

[Jumble Jumble]

Well, it's a vintage body. Every other component has been changed over and over again for the last 40 years. The only way you can call it the same guitar is if when you say "guitar" you mean the body. Every other part is a random selection of successful experiments.

The experimental evidence points towards the pickups being the overridingly most important aspect of a guitar's tone. Other things affect the unplugged tone, but when plugged in, it's all in the pickups. Very liberating, it means us builders can just choose the wood we want based on weight, looks or whatever other criteria we want, without worrying about tone.

 

[mayfly]

Glad to know they make absolutely no difference, wonder why they market so many different kinds out of so many different materials, damn I could a made my guitar out of cheap stuff and got the same sounds ....

The reason why this is done is because of the operating environment the component will be in.  High voltage, low voltage, high frequency, low frequency, high current, low current.  Depending on what you need out of a cap essentially determines how it's made and how much it costs.

Fortunately for us, a guitar tone circuit is about as easy an environment as it gets for a cap.  It's low voltage, low frequency, low current.  Almost any cap of the right value will work just fine.  You can spend pennies, or dollars (for a really expensive one), but it's not going to make any difference in the tone.

Having said that, I always use a poly film caps in a guitar and avoid ceramic types - but then again I'm an audiophile snob. 

 

[lucky13]

I can respect that, I am a quality parts snob, but accept others values and opinions liberally,but cant bring myself to buy anything but the best.

 

[Jumble Jumble]

A ceramic disc of the right value is a quality part.

 

[swarfrat]

I'm convinced the Abigail Ybarra mojo was unintended.  She was one of a handful of employees that either couldn't follow a spec, or was one of the only that could.  She was the +/- that is mojo.

Or perhaps the lucky winner of the who can we identify from back in the day that we can turn into a marketing icon / employee appreciation lotto.

 

[pabloman]

It was actually the tone snob public that turned her into an icon. People went digging into good sounding strats and her initials kept showing up up. :dontknow: