Ceramic Vs Paper In Oil Caps

The bumble bee caps were later replaced by the black beauties which contained a winding of aluminum foil and paper film along with oil and were printed with the specs.

Ceramic vs paper in oil caps.

But for that moron to steal my cap and replace it and for me to never notice must mean that the difference is negligible at best. I m not saying i like the orange drop better than the pio. Paper in oil or pio caps are just one variety of capacitor. Others are made out of mylar ceramic etc.

Briefly a capacitor in the context of musical electronics consists of two plates of conducting metal separated by an insulating layer called a dielectric for example if you took two rolls of aluminum foil and unrolled them sandwiching a layer of paper between that would make a capacitor. Truth be told i don t like one more than the other because i can t tell a difference. The cheap ceramic caps are a little different story. I bought a bunch of vintage paper in oil caps.

A cap lets the tone control roll off the treble response progressively warming the tone. Capacitors are energy storage devices that filter the high frequencies. They still have the kraft paper in oil construction like the vintage russians but these are hermetically sealed metal tubes with glass ends so the value will not drift over time.