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Re: cathode bypass caps

5/16/2005 7:16 PM
novosibir	Re: cathode bypass caps Maybe that I'm wrong with my post, because I'm sure, that you all know that phenomen, that you've done a tweak to an amp, that sounds better than the other tweak before. But the next day or only 3 hours later you're playing the amp again - and now the previous tweak sounds better - one day later it's different again... I'd experienced, that a 250µ or a 330µ cap doesn't give you more bass response than a 25µ cap - but it gives you another feel while playing. It's hard to describe it exactly, but it seems to me, that the notes appear a bit "slower" with the bigger caps. The playing feel is not so much sensitive, it's more kinda indolence of the tone, what happens with the bigger caps.

5/16/2005 7:16 PM

novosibir

Re: cathode bypass caps

Maybe that I'm wrong with my post, because I'm sure, that you all know that phenomen, that you've done a tweak to an amp, that sounds better than the other tweak before.

But the next day or only 3 hours later you're playing the amp again - and now the previous tweak sounds better - one day later it's different again...

I'd experienced, that a 250µ or a 330µ cap doesn't give you more bass response than a 25µ cap - but it gives you another feel while playing.

It's hard to describe it exactly, but it seems to me, that the notes appear a bit "slower" with the bigger caps. The playing feel is not so much sensitive, it's more kinda indolence of the tone, what happens with the bigger caps.

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Greg Simon Well I think it depends on what you... -- 5/17/2005 1:03 AM