(pots affect the load and caps don't? Medyo if you subscribe to one, you should also subscribe to the other.)
you mentioned the blower switch (which IIRC is just a switch to take out the knobs out of the circuit). intindido na that i was referring to both controls. still, misleading question.
(Or he felt that caps connected to a tone pot at full CW position affected tone.)
how so? by rolling off SOME treble? i bet he didnt use his amp's treble knob too?
(Again, I understand your need for a 5 or 6 position rotary switch but still the question is what are you 'straining' to hear? I think this is the point were we diverge a bit.)
treble loss. but such loss - in the realm of live sound - would be too insignificant. is/was there loss? shempre, may loading eh. it's important too to specify what gets lost. high frequencies, yes, but tone? haha, malabo.
(So to clarify, are you saying that loading with a capacitor with a tone pot at full CW can affect tone regardless of value or type?)
for the record, yes, i think so, depende sa value ng tone pot AND cap value, but not cap type. try using a 10megaohm pot (kung meron) and test if the so-called change is perfectly audible. a 1M pot will do.
(You mentioned the word 'muddy' which is still cool for me to use in a varitone. Mas maganda siguro kung on/off two position switch na lang instead of a pot. LoL)
maganda yan. for tuning purposes using pedals (not clip-ons), importante IMO yung tone knob. pero mas maganda siguro yung rotary with different values para mas madami yung caps na pwede i-try. or a variable cap na lang.
(How should I know the age. Bigay lang ni Jim Rolph sa akin. Mukhang bagong bago pa pero NOS na Cornell Dublier. Did not check for drift but it behaves differently from modern polypropylene capacitors.)
mukha pa talagang bago yan kasi new old stock eh. old stock na hindi nagamit, kaya bago pa rin. pero posibleng nagdrift na nga yan sa katandaan. baka lolo ko na yan ha?
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(Actually palagay ko bingi sina Faraday kasi hindi naman siya audio engineer. Heh Heh.)
hehehe, pero bingi din si beytoven ah?