[sdiy] cap question

[cheater cheater]

The more important question...
how do you identify where to be strict and where to put some slack in?

It's part of the *art* of making synthesizers..

D.

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Tom Wiltshire<tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:
>
> On 8 Aug 2009, at 12:17, GEORGE HEARN wrote:
>
>> Will an age come where we crave after 'bad' capacitors?
>
> Highly likely, I'd have thought. Witness the number of guitar effects
> builders who use carbon resistors for added 'mojo'.
>
> What's happening now with capacitors has already happened with resistors. I
> now use 0.5W 1% metal film for everything. Synth schematics that I read
> often specify 1% tolerance resistors for critical values, but otherwise
> assume 5% or 10%.
>
> T.
>
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