madbean Glam capacitor question

Started by snk, February 20, 2020, 05:07:26 PM

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snk

Hello,
I am building a Madbean Glam using this layout. I like the way it sounds in the video, it's an easy build, and i have a couple PT2399 to put to good use :)

I am however wondering two little things (trying to understand the design choices) :
- The Madbean BoM (in the PDF linked above) specifies that one 10µF capacitor should be a tantalum one. On the layout, it is an electrolytic.
- On the layout, some 100nF (and some 220nF) caps surrounding the PT2399 are box type (yellow rectangle), some are red circles (so, i guess, ceramic ?).

My questions are the following :
- What would be the difference to use a tantalum (instead of an electro), and ceramics (over box or mylar) ?
- Would it affect the sound, or the circuit behaviour/performance (I know the PT2399 can be quite temperamental sometimes) ? Or is it just a matter of saving some space on the veroboard, and using what we have at hand ?


bean

Tantalum is spec'd for the PT2399 +5v decoupling cap, IIRC. It's not absolutely necessary and I use electrolytic there all the time. Use what you have.

Not sure what you mean by yellow box and red circles unless you might be referring to a pic of my specific build. In that case, it's because I mostly have AVX box caps for 1n-8n2 and Panasonic ECQ-V for 10n and above. All film caps and just what I happen to use.

snk

Thank you, Bean, that's perfect :)
(and thank you also for your great designs and website !)

snk

... Glam built, easy to build, and it sounds fine  :icon_cool:

Is there any way to add a pseudo stereo out ?