Jaguar alternate wiring help needed.

[niksureal]

i am trying to wire the main set of switches to be:
on/off
capacitor (.022uf)/normal
capacitor (.001uf)/normal

this is how i have it wired currently...


signal passes all of the way through. the first switch works as intended and the third switch acts as intended but the middle switch doesnt do anything. its on/on but the capacitor wired to it does nothing. same sound in both positions. i think i may have it wired wrong. if someone looks at my wiring and thinks it is correct, it might be a bad cap and i can get a new one. its just driving me nuts that it isnt doing anything. the cap i have wired in is a .022uf so i assume it would definitely be noticeable if it were working.
any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance.

[trosthouse]

honestly that wiring looks correct, maybe the .022uf isn't noticeable or like you said its a bad cap.

[mike fried]

As it's passing signal, it's highly unlikely the cap is bad (it would very likely be open rather than shorted). Have you tried it with the .001 switched in as well? If it's functional you should hear some difference (in the direction of even thinner) as you switch in the .022 with the .001 already engaged (capacitance reduces in series connections). In any event, a .022 cap is quite large to use as a high-pass filter in that application, I'd try some in the range of .0047-.010. Vintage Rickenbackers with "toaster" pickups often used a .0047 cap in series with the bridge pickup, some of the reason no other 12-string sounds like one of those...

[niksureal]

thanks for the replies. forgot i had posted this.
it was indeed the cap that was the culprit. i switched to another cap and it is working as intended now.
appreciate it!

[Embenny]

thanks for the replies. forgot i had posted this.
it was indeed the cap that was the culprit. i switched to another cap and it is working as intended now.
appreciate it!

This happens quite often. I've become a believer in using alligator clips as heat sinks to protect small parts from the heat build-up during soldering that can fry them. Glad you solved the problem!