[sdiy] Moog 904A VCF best type of ladder capacitors.. orange drops or any good film caps.. ??

[Michael E Caloroso]

It is my distinguished opinion that guitar discussion forums are poor
places for advice on electronics.  Way too many myths and folklore
being perpetuated on them.

Capacitor dielectrics aren't going to make much difference in the Moog
ladder filter.  Moog did change dielectrics over the years (film,
polyester) with little difference in the sound.

The two significant contributors are the feedback architecture and the
fidelity/coupling of the VCA following it.  Minimoog VCAs were not
high fidelity devices and they distorted the waveform.

MC

On 10/26/18, Mike Beauchamp <list at mikebeauchamp.com> wrote:
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> Hey JPD,
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> The Orange Drop caps that I'm familiar with from tube amp work are the
> polypropylene film and foil and polyester film and foil caps made by
> CDE. If you're already using Vishay film caps, I'm not sure how much of
> a difference you'd actually hear with the Orange Drop capacitor since
> they're both film capacitors (and I'm a bit of a skeptic when it comes
> to guitar capacitor woo). Easiest way to test is of course to just try it!
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