The Sound of Capacitors

Started by moeburn, July 03, 2005, 04:45:52 PM

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moeburn

A very interesting article for those of you trying to decide which capacitors are better for your pedals:

http://members.aol.com/sbench102/caps.html

The article is biased towards audio amplification, where you generally want the signal to be untouched by capacitors.  Of course in the stomp box world, faulty parts may give you a desirable tone.

Some sample curves of different types of capacitors: