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

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9/21/2004 2:06 AM
stephen	FS: Jensen foil/oil/film caps for tweed deluxe I have built/sold several tweed deluxes over the last 5 years, and I have an extra set of high quality coupling caps (jensen foil/oil) that are not being used. I have 4 x 1uF and 1 x .022uF. If you'd like to try 'em out, let me know...all 5 caps for $35 shipped (these typically go for $11-12 each).

 

9/21/2004 10:26 AM
stephen	correction to above....the cap value is obviously 0.1uF for the 5E3 and not 1uF.   thanks.

 

10/3/2004 1:14 AM
Brutus	I love Jensen Caps. I use polyprops in the preamp section to get good detail and then use Jensens in the phase inverter and output section to smooth out the brightness. Works great.

 

10/3/2004 5:47 PM
Bruce /Mission Amps	Anything that adds to rolling the highs off in a tweed Deluxe is a mistake.   For modern electric guitar players, polyprops are probably better overall then polyester caps in a 5E3 but they don't quite sound like real tweed Deluxes when you use them.   That's why I prefer the Mallory 150s.     Bruce

 

10/5/2004 12:37 AM
Brutus	I like the 150's as well but it depends. Mallory 150s to my ears are slightly darker than Sprague 716P's. So the combination of 716P's with Jensens may well approximate 150s in terms of brightness.     Also Jensen caps are very neutral. They are not as dark sounding as Vitamin-Qs (the classic oil cap).

 

10/5/2004 7:12 PM

Bruce /Mission Amps

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 7:33 PM

Brutus

What brand of polystyrene cap did you try Bruce. I tried Polystyrenes by MIT and they were way too weird sounding for guitar. I used them before for hifi amps and they worked well. But in my guitar amp they made the tone sound like I was plugged into a cheap JVC SS stereo system. The highs were simply too detailed to keep your attention off the strange sound. Not smooth at all.     So, is there another brand of polystyrene more useful?     Brutus

 

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