Adios Orange Drops?

[outtahear]

Nah-loose signal chain reference.

 

That said, good joints do help (INSERT POT JOKE>> * Here!

 

All of 'em!

[FXR]

 

They all sounded the same to me. Pretty poor experimental design, too. He didn't check the capacitance values of the caps, there is no control for the variability in his playing, and he shouldn't tell us which cap he used in which clip. A GOOD test would actually try to control for everything except the cap type. That means checking the capacitance values of each cap, making sure they are all as close to the same value as possible. Some sort of system to remove human variability in playing is a must, such as a recording of him playing once and playing the recording through each cap. If you want to be super technical about it, you can set up a circuit so the output impedance of the playback device matches the impedance of the guitar pickup. And lastly, the test should be blind. By telling us which clip corresponds to which cap, people will use that information to hear differences that don't actually exist. If the people responding to his video can do a better than chance job of identifying which cap is used in each clip, then a conclusion can be drawn.

 

 

I don't know about all of that. But, with the spectrum analyzer in the frame, one could draw more conclusions then with their ears alone. And there were differences. Hearing them, well, that's another story.

[Meowy]

 

what would be the usual in a p90 equipped guitar? Also what k value pot?

 

 

Again no hard-and-fast rules, but I think 500k/.022 are typically used with p90s.

[Armitage]

On paper, solid state beats tube

 

 

Of course when you read that, it's discussing solid state vs tubes... without distortion.

Once they're driven into overload, it's another thing all together. Then Solid state and tubes are completely different.

[mutant_guitar]

 

I don't know about all of that. But, with the spectrum analyzer in the frame, one could draw more conclusions then with their ears alone. And there were differences. Hearing them, well, that's another story.

 

 

but no conclusions can be drawn about the source of those differences. they could be the result of the difference in capacitance due to tolerances, or the result of subtle variances in his playing. without "all of that," you can't say for sure what caused the differences.

[outtahear]

Of course when you read that, it's discussing solid state vs tubes... without distortion . Once they're driven into overload, it's another thing all together. Then Solid state and tubes are completely different.

 

Right, but again, in the 60's, a lot of manufacturers were ready to "cross over' because engineers were touting the superiority of SS vs Tubes. Quality of distortion wasn't thought of as an issue among non-musicians.

(Sure you're a smart boy now....)

 

There's dolts on this very board touting such absolute stupidity as a 12Ax7 is a 12AX7 if it's within spec, and that NOS tubes are {censored}, because they're rejects from early production.

 

Caps a cap, PAF clone's a PAF clone, Output tubes don't need to be matched at all (audiophool nonsense), inverter tubes do because they're "the most important tube in yer amp!" and other frequently regurgitated "Truthiness" spouted by folks based on Truthiness, and something read on-line, and not experience..

 

In closing,

 

-Bugera

-Lulz

-Cakefarts

-brootalz

-CSB

-CSM

-JFAC..

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

my penis affects tone

[outtahear]

 

my penis affects tone

 

 

Yours, or...???

[Uma Floresta]

my penis affects tone

 

It certainly affects mine!