Re: box vs film caps (if that even makes sense)

Posted by nocentelli on Nov 03, 2015; 7:50pm
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/box-vs-film-caps-if-that-even-makes-sense-tp25024p25711.html

Drey wrote

6% Distortion at 10 Hz is a lot.

What interests me is if you really can hear the difference.

Unlikely. I've tried blind testing a simple clean boost with ceramic, polybox and electrolytic 100n caps for input and output and could not tell the difference. Maybe I have cloth ears. Maybe any effect is magnified if you used a more complex circuit with a string of "inferior" caps in series, but then multiple switching becomes problematic. If you build identical complex circuits with only the cap material as a variable and switched between them, you might notice a difference but you would have to be certain that ALL other components were identical in value/spec to draw a valid conclusion.