Deny wrote:The (NOS) tone capacitor thing has never made a lot of sense to me, so a while ago I decided to give it a try and replaced my Les Paul's capacitors with oil ones. Yes, I could hear the difference - it was noticeably warmer - but I still wasn't convinced, call me skeptic. So what I did next was measure the capacitors I just removed from the guitar and they were all within tolerance, some were dead on. Now here's the kicker: every single one of the oil capacitors measured way above their specified value. Interesting huh? So after doing the aforementioned measurements I think "tone capacitors" are nothing but a (very profitable) myth. Has anyone had a similar experience, what are your opinions on this?
ik6gpy wrote:Capacitors generate distortion when they are actually implementing a time-constant.
IvIark wrote:I've got maybe 15 different paper in oil values and they have similar accuracy to poly caps. None of them measure more than a few percent over the rated value. Truth or myth is a matter for your ears to decide, but generallly whatever mictester says, the opposite is true
MoonWatcher wrote:I actually like the little multilayer ceramic caps. Small "footprint," all sorts of common sizes, nice and cheap, and 5mm spacing for most sizes from 100pF up to 1uF.
MoonWatcher wrote:But I really don't care about cap mojo.
MoonWatcher wrote:(...) I actually like the little multilayer ceramic caps. Small "footprint," all sorts of common sizes, nice and cheap, and 5mm spacing for most sizes from 100pF up to 1uF. (...)
Deny wrote:Hey I don't mind paying a bit more for better quality parts and/or gear, but it seems to me that there are a few people out there making false claims about NOS parts all over the internet for the sole purpose of profiting on naive musicians, who in turn perpetuate that misinformation to the point that it becomes myth. Still talking about capacitors, I suspect the "harshness" associated with ceramic capacitors might be just as false as the paper oil's "warmth". I wonder if someone conducted a blind test with different types of capacitors but which measured the exact same value, what the outcome would be
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