Good evening folks,
I received a kit to mod my Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue Guitar Amp and what I was supposed to receive and what I received are different primarily for the tone stack and volume and drive pots.
I'll list what I think I should have received based on the ad and what I received, for those that mod tell me what you think of the substitutions:
C5 - .1 Orange Drop (received .1 Wima MKS 4)
C6 - .015 Orange Drop (received .015 Wima MKS 4)
C7 - 250 Silver Mica (received 270 MLCC)
Across pins 1 and 2 of the volume and drive pots 100 Silver Micas (received 100 MLCCs)
Your thoughts?
I received a kit to mod my Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue Guitar Amp and what I was supposed to receive and what I received are different primarily for the tone stack and volume and drive pots.
I'll list what I think I should have received based on the ad and what I received, for those that mod tell me what you think of the substitutions:
C5 - .1 Orange Drop (received .1 Wima MKS 4)
C6 - .015 Orange Drop (received .015 Wima MKS 4)
C7 - 250 Silver Mica (received 270 MLCC)
Across pins 1 and 2 of the volume and drive pots 100 Silver Micas (received 100 MLCCs)
Your thoughts?
It's all fine. The original Leo-built Fenders used 30% tolerance caps and Leo took good&cheap rather than fancy-brands.
Silver Mica was good years ago; this decade I keep hearing of trouble with SM. MLCC is the most common type (in that value) today and certainly as good as the best SM ever was.
Orange Drops were always overpriced. With recent supply-chain trouble I'd take a Wima any day.
But if you think you were charged a premium price for five commodity caps, ask for a return.
Silver Mica was good years ago; this decade I keep hearing of trouble with SM. MLCC is the most common type (in that value) today and certainly as good as the best SM ever was.
Orange Drops were always overpriced. With recent supply-chain trouble I'd take a Wima any day.
But if you think you were charged a premium price for five commodity caps, ask for a return.
"Orange Drop" is a name usually associated with Sprague (now Cornell-Dublier) capacitors, which can be either polyester (225P) OR polypropylene (715P). Those WIMA capacitors are fine quality PET caps, but may not have the "sound" you are after, and that can only be determined by your own ears comparing them. Polypropylene capacitors usually have lower distortion specs than either polyester or PET, but that doesn't necessarily mean they sound the best FOR GUITAR. My personal preference is the 715P polypropylenes.
MLCCs are multi-layer ceramic caps and are fine to use as power supply bypass; I personally would not put them in the direct audio path.
MLCCs are multi-layer ceramic caps and are fine to use as power supply bypass; I personally would not put them in the direct audio path.
Class 1 ceramics (C0G/NP0) are fine in the signal path. Class 2 ceramics (X7R, X5R, Y5V, etc), on the other hand, would certainly not be my first choice in that application.
Hi folks,
Thanks for the responses, i’m still on the fence about the substitutions and will be elevating the 5 Watters above the board before they do any damage.
Thanks for the responses, i’m still on the fence about the substitutions and will be elevating the 5 Watters above the board before they do any damage.