bored with NPN boost

[lightningfingers]

what would it sound like if i swapped all the caps out for tantalums?

[Oliver]

what would it sound like if i swapped all the caps out for tantalums?

hmmmm - i think it could sound a bit smoother.

perhaps try to build in a switch to change the Input Caps for versatile Boostrange

like followed Illustration:



Another Idea to have more Fun with Your Booster is, to build another one to drive Your Booster into Distortion.

Have Fun !!!

bye
Oliver

[spongebob]

what would it sound like if i swapped all the caps out for tantalums?

Careful! Tantalum caps are polar, and if you connect them with inverse polarity they might even blow up like a small firecracker!

Besides, you mostly see them used as a (power supply) bypass caps, I doubt they sound "better" than metal film caps when used in the signal path. You might be better off experimenting with different values than with different capacitor types, as Oliver said.