Carbon Black Fuzz - To Vintage or Not to Vintage...

I thought Arbiter ripped off the Tone Bender 1.5!

I've been using carbon comp and carbon film resistors for my latest builds on turret board because they look cool and have thick, sturdy leads.
I'm under no illusion that they sound better or different. If anything, they probably raise the noise floor.
 
Carbon comps are likely to increase noise, if not at first then as the amp ages. But I've not had any noise issues with carbon films, despite what the experts say. I like carbon film for the regular resistors on the board. For anything which should be more than 1W I'll use metal film or wirewound but carbon films are fine. I guess I don't build super high gain amps, so it's not a thing for me. Maybe if I started building Soldano style amps I would need to move to all metal film?
 
manfesto said:
Exactly, which makes the rationale of using CC resistors in guitar pedals snake oil.



"extensive double blind tests for their tone" IS science. Like, almost the definition of.

(and the odds are *very* high that once values were settled on, a *lot* of A/B testing was done between brand A and slightly-cheaper-brand B to determine if going with A made enough difference that going with it over B would be worth it. Because a solid chunk of engineering is building to cost.)

(and of course that's how modern amps and pedals are designed too, just with parts with significantly tighter tolerances leading to less variation when produced in high quantity.)
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Science is attempting to disprove your hypothesis by every means imaginable. When you cannot disprove it, then it becomes theory. Double blind testing is still subjective in that we humans are all the same and all different at the same time!
 
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