I Built a Paper-In-Oil Cap for My Guitar - Here’s How It Sounds!

The DIY cap value is 5nf.
Guitarists spend endless hours chasing the "perfect" tone, but too often, that chase leads them right back to the same mass-produced gear that everyone else is using. If you’re using the same capacitors, the same pickups, the same pedals as the next player, how can your sound be truly unique?
For decades, tone capacitors have been trapped in a binary-either vintage paper-in-oil or modern ceramic and film caps. The guitar world swears by these traditions, clinging to the belief that the right capacitor must be made a certain way. But what if that belief is wrong? What if the secret to a one-of-a-kind tone isn’t found in what already exists but in something new?
This DIY capacitor isn’t a Bumblebee, a Vitamin Q, or an Orange Drop. It wasn’t made in a factory with the same materials and tolerances as every other capacitor on the market. It’s something different-built from scratch, using unorthodox materials, and tuned by hand. Because of that, it doesn’t sound like anything else.
True innovation in guitar tone doesn’t come from following the path already paved. It comes from stepping off it, experimenting, and creating something that no one else has. If you want a sound that’s truly your own, you have to be willing to build it.
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