What type of capacitors?

[M420]

Im new to building and have built a fuzz clone and a tonebender 3 nobe clone so far. I wondering if anyone could tell if it makes a huge difference what brand capacitors I use in my pedals. I have been using the cheapest film caps from mouser AVX, Vishay and Xichon most are 63v 5% or 10%. I see alot of people using much more expensive orange drop and vintage tropical fish capacitors on differents sites. I guess the question is does it really make enough difference in the overall tone to use these much more expensive capacitors? Any help would be much appreciated.

[paulruby]

It doesn't make a big difference. You can hear the difference between material types (polyester, polypropylene, ceramic) but not by brand. All three of the previous mentioned types are cheap, so try them all... Personally, I use polyester for most everything but will use ceramic or mica at times, too (brighter sound but can be harsh).

[Mark Hammer]

Im new to building and have built a fuzz clone and a tonebender 3 nobe clone so far. I wondering if anyone could tell if it makes a huge difference what brand capacitors I use in my pedals. I have been using the cheapest film caps from mouser AVX, Vishay and Xichon most are 63v 5% or 10%. I see alot of people using much more expensive orange drop and vintage tropical fish capacitors on differents sites. I guess the question is does it really make enough difference in the overall tone to use these much more expensive capacitors? Any help would be much appreciated.

It's a fuzz for crying out loud.  Have you ever seen guts shots of these things?  Ugly as sin, and the cheapest crappiest caps you can imagine.

As I keep harping on and on about, when you're looking at processing ultra wide-bandwidth content, like 32 tracks of synths, acoustic percussion, vocals, etc, in preparation for full bandwidth reproduction, and focussing on fidelity, then cap quality can make a big difference.  When you're talking about degrading the signal quality of one lowly, narrow bandwidth signal source (a guitar), where the alignment of harmonics and fundamental is not critical in identifying one instrument/source out of many, and reproducing that through speakers that have no interest in reaching beyond 6khz or so, crap caps are generally more than sufficient.

Again, not dissing attention to component quality, or the advice of audiophiles.  Just pointing out that you shouldn't confuse contexts where it matters and contexts where it doesn't. 

[col]

use whatever fits your layout! I used to worry about what type of caps I used 'till I blind (deaf?) tested a few. It might matter on some critical sounding schemo but now I just use whatever I have that fits. As long as they are somewhere within the values of the item specified they will be OK unless you are trying to get rid of squeal!