[sdiy] Newbie capacitor questions 2 - Return of the Cap.

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Samppa Tolvanen <samppa.tolvanen at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Newbie capacitor questions 2 - Return of the Cap.
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:20:13 +0200
Message-ID: <fa1b0bd805010909201d2d9eea at mail.gmail.com>

> On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 09:14:02 -0700, Ian Fritz <ijfritz at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Ceramic has a significant soakage effect, as someone pointed out here
> > previously.  They seem to work pretty well, anyway, though.
> 
> ..but not recommended for "critical" parts of the circuit - like osc.
> integrator cap ect.?

Exactly!
LFO and envelope circuits should be places to think about soakage and memory
effects.

Ceramics may however be usefull for HF-caps in the negative feedback etc.
For LF they are virtually not "in" and for HF they really need to be.

Cheers,
Magnus