Capacitors

[Harry Bissell]

Check out Capacitor FAQ (by me) hosted on Grant Richter's site
www.musicsynthesizer.com

Where I'll doubtless agree that polystyrene and polycarbonate are top
choices, polypropylene is good, polyester is fair, etc...

I only use ceramics for bypass (power supply), small values (less than
100pF - use
NPO or COG types).

H^) harry

Magnus Danielson wrote:

> From: theoms at nettaxi.com
> Subject: Capacitors
> Date: 13 Jun 2000 01:28:34 +0000
>
> > I'm trying to build the VCF6 EMS Type Diode Ladder LP VCF
> > http://www.xavax.com/efm/pdf/vcf6.pdf
> > What kind of 0.1 capacitors should I use. Ceramic????
> > Can I use ceramic capacitors of 100v?
>
> For you Americans:
>
> He used the C-word!
>
> But seriously, please consider plastic caps. Polypropylen is not that
> expensive and will make a better job than ceramic caps will. If not
> polyprop there are several other good plastic caps to use other than
> ceramics.
>
> For some things ceramics is THE thing to use, I would even get picky
> on which ceramic to use. However, ceramic caps does not belong in the
> audio path. Where I fancy using ceramics I would not take plastic
> caps, they just dont play the same ballgame.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus