.015 vs .022 tone caps

[Variac]

.015 cap vs.022 cap the .015 cap is going to be brighter then the .022? I would like to have the .015 for both neck and bridge,now I have .022 in the neck and bridge Humbuckers I would like the bridge humbucker to sound brighter even though both of my tone knobs on my les Paul are always on 10

 

[poor man's burst]

First, check that you have 500k pots in your guitar (assuming it is a Gibson), and not 300k.
If you leave the tone pots on 10, it would make a greater difference changing the tone pots for no-load pots than changing the .022nf capacitors for .015.
Have you ever considered changing the settings on your amplifier?

 

[Variac]

My 4 of my pots are 500k

 

[J.D.]

Yes the capacitance is the cutoff frequency and the resistance is the amount. .015 is higher frequency cutoff (i.e. "brighter") than .022. The .022 bridge & .015 neck combo has been popular for years.

 

[dwagar]

Have you tried adjusting the pickups?

 

[Variac]

That’s my next step

 

[ScumbackSpeakers]

I run the .015 in the neck, and a .033 in the bridge. I find the bridge pickups to be bright enough.

 

[Dave P]

You can use any value within reason. I hook up alligator clip leads and test out a bunch of different values to hear what I like. Sometimes a .022uf is fine. I've used .018, .015, .01 depending on what I want to hear. Sometimes .022 is too farty sounding when the tone is rolled back, maybe I'll use a .018 or .015 instead. Hamer used .01 for most of their guitars.