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Originally Posted by Tiltsta

Capacitors can do a lot of different jobs; including storing large amount of electricity, moderating voltages (electrolytics), or filtering signals. The capacitors in guitars are filtering capacitors, or, more commonly 'filter caps'. All of these types of capacitors 'do' the same thing, basically separate two electrical conductor poles with a dielectric fluid or material that allows current to pass through with varying degrees of dampening. Of course, the type of cap and materials can be made such

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I'll toss is a few comments on the printed circuit board (PCB) versus point to point (PTP) wiring, as I see a lot of 'interesting cork sniffery' about the topic on the internet. I think this stems from the fact that vintage amplifiers are PTP wired, and everyone knows that everything vintage is awesome. PCB and PTB are simply different ways of laying out electrical wires to connect the components of an amplifier to create an electrical circuit. Picture 1 is a shot of a typical PTP wired amplifier, ...