Recent content by Felix

I removed the treble-bleed cap from my CE-22 and like the tone better now at low volumes, but it is now just a tad dark.

TLDR/ little interest, but minor note: The aerodynamics concepts were known when the "bumblebees cannot logically fly according to the laws of aerodynamics" myth was formulated (presumably by rather sloppy popularists of sloppy aerodynamic theorists... if such exist). As I understand it they...

The whole issue of capacitor opinions and myths has frustrated me for about a year now; I finally buckled down and looked into some actual primary research on the subject, as well as a number of secondary research papers, rather than simply tertiary sources, opinion, and myth. If I am...

I'm not talking about voltage-induced nonlinearities in fully charged high-voltage caps such as filter caps, but effects in low-voltage caps due to them being physical devices operating in a real environment; AFAICT, they are non-linear by nature, at any voltage, and this varies by the...

That just isn't true. I can find innumerable references to changing pot taper with a resistor in the literature. Putting a resistor in parallel with an audio pot changes the taper to a more linear slope. Edit: the opposite can be true, and depends upon relative resistor values (the pot being...

I am a complete tyro as far as electronics, but can anyone tell me, since we're on the subject of caps: since the time it takes to charge a capacitor is different from the time it takes to discharge that same capacitor (in every capacitor to which I can find reference), would not this effect be...

Reporting back: I took out my CE-22's treble bypass cap; I like the low-volume tone much better now, but I think I will fit an 80pF cap for a slightly more open sound at low volume. I am getting some variable caps in a few days; I would like to try them in my CE-22 try to find my perfect bleed...

Analog machines are terrific time-users! -True that. Nothing sounds quite like them: true, too, which is why to me they can't be beat. If I were scoring commercials, you can bet I'd be using a PC, though, if only for the convenience!. 20 years ago I was super-fond of digital processing; as I get...

...Like a modular synth exploded...

When you know your pedal enthusiasm has gone too far: the stages of addiction.

...So now I've been listening to tracks in car commercials, listening for Psytrance-ish tracks, and (though it seems that more generic EDM-ish stuff predominates in this type of ad) there are a few which come (sort of) close! I have to wonder sometimes, when I hear a snatch of rave-a-delic (hey...

I love the sound of my Hollowbody II with its 57/08 TMs; the pickups were a large part of why I bought the guitar. In a certain sense, I was paying for exclusivity, and the pups not being available separately is a part of that. My HBII sounds quite sweet and warm and there is a place for that...

I shouldn't have said anything. Now My Saehan-made guitar needs a truss-rod adjustment!

What took the cavity's place? :iamconfused:

Let's go!