capacitors   will restrict  high  end  tones.     for  example  .047  gives a deeper(more bass) tone  than .220..  another  example is   i recently changed  capacitors  in a  les paul. it came  throught  with   220s   sound  was tinny specially on the  bridge  pickup. so i looked  up   gibson  and epiphone  specs.    tihis is  for  soap bar p90s. it  will be different  on humbuckers  p94s  etc etc.  they suggested  .047  so i put  them in.  while  getting  a  nice  tone  in  the  two pickup  setting  the  individual pickups   were too dark . ( so i ended up  with 330s  on both  and  the  guitar sounds  great).  the  same  thing applys  in  workbench      its  trial  and  error with  each type of  pickup till you get the  sound  your  looking  for. general  starting  point   i think  would be  .047  for  fender  or single  coil   .022  for  gibson  or  humbuckers.  pot  resistance.  you can  use  any pot  resistance  again  its  trial  and error.  some  people  use  a  combination.   its  manufacturer  preference..   generally  old  style  fender  is  250k  old  style  gibson   is  500 k     newer  fender  and  gibson/ epiphone  is  500k mini pots.   different  pickup sets  come  with  mixed  pots     example  i  just installed   fender  noisless  pickups  in my strat .  the  set came  with  two 500k  for  tone  and  on3 1000 k for volume.   i left  the  large 250ks  i had   in the  guitar already  in  because  they also affect  tone  and  i wanted  to  achieve    the  sound  of  a  58  strat  but  not   pickup all the  ambient  noise  that single coils  pickup.  it worked  well.    the  pickups as  well have  there  own affect  on  sound   you cant  go by   humbucker  or  single  coil  theres  all kinds  of  windings   some  will have  a  set of 3  with  the  center  pickup reverse  wound  to achieve    a humbucking  affect.

   bottom  line is   trial  and error.  write  down in a little  notebook  what  changes  you make  and  what you achieve   from it ..  then youll have  a reference  to refer to  rather  than  relying  on memory.

     id suggest  the  two books  in the attatched  photos   if you really  want to learn  not only  what you asked  but just about  anything  else.  just   the  knowledge  of  how  to do your own setups  like the  rpos  is  worth  the  price.

have  fun

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it never got finished but it has some helpful stuff about the tone shaping abilities of the Controls and Pickup editors in WorkBench