[Derwin]

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On 24 Mar, 09:39, (Derwin) wrote:

Hello, I have an old 70s-era 5-band equalizer made by Realistic (radio
shack),
which I like to use in my guitar effects chain, and I opened it up the other
day just to see what it looked like inside, and I noticed that there are two
large electrolytic capacitors. They look fine, and the unit sounds OK, but
given that it is probably at least 30 years old now, and may have sat around
for many years not being used before I got my hands on it, could I expect
improved performance if I were to replace those two big electrolytics with
new
ones?

Thanks for any advice!

No. If youre considering doing jobs that dont need doing it may be
time to reevaluate ones life.


I appreciate your response as well, but the cirumstances are that I have some
free time while I wait for some parts to arrive before I can get back to
recording, and for the past few weeks I've been doing a lot of soldering.
Since I've got all the tools laid out from the previous work, and can't get
back to recording, I figured I'd open up anything I have around that is
essentially worthless but still potentially useful (in my opinion) and see if I
could do any worthwhile modifications (I was hoping I'd be able to replace an
op amp in the equalizer, but there aren't any in it). However it does seem
like my rudimentary self-learned knowledge of electronics has already caused me
to do some useless things, such as replacing the op amps in an Alesis
Microlimiter with ones with lower noise specs, hoping to get a lower noise
floor, which did not happen because I didn't understand the circuit well enough
to realize that swapping op amps wouldn't result in a quieter unit.