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Capacitor Test: Polyester Film vs. Paper-in-Oil (PIO) in Guitar Tone Circuit

Background

There are people swearing by paper-in-oil (PIO) capacitors for electric guitar tone circuits. The say all else being equal (same capacitance, similar tolerance -- voltage is not relevant in guitar circuits), a PIO capacitor will sound different, meaning better. Words like "warmer", "mellower", "livelier" are being employed to describe the difference. The theoretical basis for this would be the dissipation factor, which obviously varies with capacitor "architecture".

guitar • tone • electronics • capacitor • PIO

A Brighter Guitar

SUMMARY: Advice regarding brightening-up your Les Paul-type guitar, which applies to most dark wood made, humbucker-equipped guitars.

guitar • pickups • humbucker

Dean DMT Pickup Color Codes

They are the same as Seymour Duncan humbucker conductor color codes, as seen in Dean's scarce pickup wiring instructions, and Seyomour Duncan's pickup color codes comparison chart. I'm talking 4-wire conductor humbucker pickups. In summary:

guitar • humbucker • dean • DMT • seymour duncan

Fuck you, Microsoft

For better or worse, it has come to this. I used your operating systems because I had to - everyone was developing for your sick platforms. "You don't like it? Switch to Linux." I would, MS, I really would, if the other players would just develop the software I use for Linux. Till then I'm stuck with you. I even learned to love your idiosyncratic  way of doing things.

What is the purpose of life?

To love. To care and cater to others. To give out the effort required to do this until it becomes effortless. To give yourself out until there's no more "I" left. Why? Especially since this seems so unnatural?

philosophy

Identity

Personal equilibrium requires one thing: you must know who you are and where (in the largest sense) you are. The rest, all the way to happiness, is just a matter of assuming this situation within reality. Knowing who you are, and where you are is the basis for becoming someone else, somewhere else, in case you want it.

philosophy

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