What type of capacitor gives the best sound?

[alparent]

  Just KIDING! NO I don't want to start yet another discussion on this topic.

I can just hear some of you mumbling as they read the title....."Not a #@$%#$% cap question again!.....can't he use the @#%@#% search......"

[Fender3D]

ever tried Parbleu Caps?

[FiveseveN]

Damn! I was just polishing my capsniffer whacker.

[Jazznoise]

I've read enough on dialectric distortion to know that I don't care about a 30V cap's 1% THD at 10Khz at 30V when I'm putting it in a 9v fuzzbox with 40% THD.

[teemuk]

This one:


(Needless to mention, but it will need 1.21 Jigawatts of power to operate).

[Ice-9]

A working one. 

[Perrow]

Reverse biased electrolytic caps for that popping sound.

[Kesh]

This one

[Dave W]

A working one. 

+1

[alparent]

But how the hell am I suppose to sell my special boutique effects on craiglist or ebay if I don't have candy orange drop rainbow gold fish caps in them?

[Tony Forestiere]

But how the hell am I suppose to sell my special boutique effects on craiglist or ebay if I don't have candy orange drop rainbow gold fish caps in them?

Fake them?

[electrosonic]

These must be good...

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/gibson-historic-bumblebee-capacitors-2-pack

Andrew.

[amptramp]

These must be good...

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/gibson-historic-bumblebee-capacitors-2-pack

Andrew.

I'm in the wrong business if you can get that kind of money for Black Beauty caps.  Molded caps like that usually split at the mold parting line and develop leakage from water vapour getting into the wax dielectric.  If you are restoring an antique radio, they usually get replaced by modern film capacitors.

[rousejeremy]

These must be good...

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/gibson-historic-bumblebee-capacitors-2-pack

Andrew.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I found this at The Twelfth Fret and laughed almost as hard.

[brett]

In the spirit of this BS post...
How to get better tone?
Caps?
Diodes?
Clean power?
Vintage transistors?
Lessons?
Less beer?
More beer?
Longer fingers?
Stronger fingers?

[gritz]

To paraphrase Stanley Kubrick:

"How I learned to stop worrying and love my tone"

[alparent]

The funniest part is that I have drawers full of these mojo inspiring components.
(Given to me buy an older gent that use to be an electronics repair man)
But I never use them 'cause they are huge and never fit on the layouts I find.
Maybe I'll just put them in my safe and leave them to my son in his inheritance (along with the SAD1024)

[duck_arse]

does that 14$ cap really say "oil paper cap", or are my eyes misreading?

a fellow I knew, owned his own company making lighting desks, used to attach an electro to a long mains flex, hang it out the front door, and turn it on. I can't remember what value he said made the best sound, but he also used resistors connected to the bench supply to light his cigs.

dunno what happened to him, but his business isn't there any more.

[drolo]

These must be good...

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/gibson-historic-bumblebee-capacitors-2-pack

Andrew.

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$33.00 savings is still a good deal though

I once dared mentioning the unimportance of capacitor type as a comment to a premier guitar article comparing the different qualities of all those bumblebees, goldfish and what not caps.

I had comments of people arguing over this for months. Some got pissed to the point of insulting each other agressively ...
I miss reading them at the office every morning with my coffee, that was finest entertainment :-)

[teemuk]

Yep, audio capacitor -threads never fail to deliver.

How about breaking them in?