[sdiy] cap question

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Benjamin Budts wrote:

have a look on Jurgen H's documentation on the living vco, he explains a 
lot of this *art* :-). he's not using carbon film resistors for 
instance, I also think these would only give noise... but opinions vary, 
never seen/heard comparisons though

grtZ
Ben
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> cheater cheater wrote:
>> 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.
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>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Tom Wiltshire<tom at electricdruid.net> 
>> wrote:
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>>> On 8 Aug 2009, at 12:17, GEORGE HEARN wrote:
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>>>> 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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