Blind Tone Tests

Here are the recordings lifted from my most recent Tone Cap Comparison Video, split into individual files.  The files are named using generic numbers, rather than labeling them by cap type – so you can listen to these without being influenced by preconceived ideas of what a particular material type should sound like.

Download them all as a single 2Mb zip if you’d like to use a double-blind tool (like WinABX or foobar with ABX).

Or try this.   Before checking the legend (linked below), listen to the examples and choose the one you like best.    After you’ve decided what you like, only then check the legend which says what cap type is used for each recording.

Let me know if this turns out how you expect!

All examples played with neck pickup only
Volume knob on 10
Tone 6, measured at 160k
Guitar: Epiphone Riviera P93
Pickups: Vintage Vibe Guitars P-90’s
Strings: D’Addario Nickel Wound EXL110
Mic: Rode NT1
Amp: Vox VT30
Distorted examples on Vox VT30, AC50CP2 model, green preset
Clean examples on VT30, Boutique Clean model, green preset

Click here for the material types legend.