Dave Platt wrote:
No it's a 97 strat and I've had it with passive pickups. So I bought a
pair of emg that are powered by a 9 volt battery. Since I'm wiring the
whole thing from scratch now I figured why put the cheap ceramic in
there. Out of all the posts with the usual snipes and chatter there was
one useful suggestion of using a tantalum dipped but alas in 0.1mF Rat
Shack only has metallized so I'm still at the start
Can I use metallized (is that just another name for tantalum dipped?)
"Metallized" almost certainly refers to a metallized plastic film
(likely mylar) cap. These are similar in many respects to a foil-and-
plastic-film cap, but the conductive elements in the cap consist of a
thin layer of metal vaccum-deposited on the plastic film, rather than
a separate layer of metal foil. They're smaller and less expensive
than foil-and-film caps of similar capacitance and voltage rating.
For audio signal-coupling purposes, metallized-film caps are usually
quite good. Their behavior is closer to that of an "ideal" capacitance
than a dipped tantalum cap (which is an electrically-polarized design
and often not a good choice in an AC signal coupling application), or
most types of ceramic cap.
Tantalum dipped caps usually don't come in sizes as small as .1 uF.
So, sure, if you want clean signal coupling, use a .1 uf
metallized-film cap.
Beautifully said, thanks for the info.
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