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Re: FS: Jensen foil/oil/film caps for tweed deluxe

10/5/2004 7:12 PM
Bruce /Mission Amps	Re: FS: Jensen foil/oil/film caps for tweed deluxe I have a 12" speaker box filled with NOS, unnamed paper in oil coupling caps and what I find is that harp players seem to like them better then most guitar players. The Mallory 150s sound good to me, maybe because they allow a little of both effects when the entire amp has them. I think of it as a little more smooth musical smudge! ha ha.. They're just a real good general purpose cap! I think Mark at Victoria uses O'drops to slightly increase the airy edginess or overall brightness of his tweed amps. These can lead to a harsh "driven" tone if you are not carefull though. I've also tried polystyrene coupling caps which also seem more transparent the polyester caps and allow the amp to breath well. Again, they can reveal the noise in your technique, the pickups, strings, tubes and the amp in general. Sometimes that's not a good thing. Bruce

10/5/2004 7:12 PM

Bruce /Mission Amps

Re: FS: Jensen foil/oil/film caps for tweed deluxe

I have a 12" speaker box filled with NOS, unnamed paper in oil coupling caps and what I find is that harp players seem to like them better then most guitar players.
The Mallory 150s sound good to me, maybe because they allow a little of both effects when the entire amp has them. I think of it as a little more smooth musical smudge! ha ha..
They're just a real good general purpose cap!
I think Mark at Victoria uses O'drops to slightly increase the airy edginess or overall brightness of his tweed amps.
These can lead to a harsh "driven" tone if you are not carefull though.
I've also tried polystyrene coupling caps which also seem more transparent the polyester caps and allow the amp to breath well.
Again, they can reveal the noise in your technique, the pickups, strings, tubes and the amp in general.
Sometimes that's not a good thing.

Bruce

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Brutus What brand of polystyrene cap did y... -- 10/5/2004 7:33 PM