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TelefunkenDuncan · 06-28-2008, 08:30 PM

MojoTone's Vitamin T and Dijon caps:

I dug in up to my elbows in capacitors last month working on different circuits on my guitars, and I bought just about one of every value of both the Dijon and Vitamin T caps. The Vitamin Ts are oil and paper, and the Dijon is based on the yellow Mallory caps. I did a lot of A/B comparisons, and there is a difference in sound. The Dijons are very smooth sounding, and MojoTone's site describes the Vitamin T as sounding "sponge-y" and I thought, What the hell does that mean? Somehow, it fits the description. If the Dijon sounds warm and smooth a la late '60s/early '70s, the Vitamin T has more grit to it, in the way of late '40s thru the '50s. Hard to explain, but it's a matter of taste. Both sound great, but I use the Dijons on my Hagstrom Swede's tone controls, and Vitamin Ts on the Swede's odd tone-switch (adding one of two extra caps into the circuit, I prefer a .001μF to add some bluesy grit). I have a .022μF Hovland MusiCap in my Strat, and while it sounds better than the stock green Fender caps, it has no real character and costs about as much as I spend on all of those MojoTone caps combined.

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TelefunkenDuncan Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: The capacitor thread. MojoTone's Vitamin T and Dijon caps: I dug in up to my elbows in capacitors last month working on different circuits on my guitars, and I bought just about one of every value of both the Dijon and Vitamin T caps. The Vitamin Ts are oil and paper, and the Dijon is based on the yellow Mallory caps. I did a lot of A/B comparisons, and there is a difference in sound. The Dijons are very smooth sounding, and MojoTone's site describes the Vitamin T as sounding "sponge-y" and I thought, What the hell does that mean? Somehow, it fits the description. If the Dijon sounds warm and smooth a la late '60s/early '70s, the Vitamin T has more grit to it, in the way of late '40s thru the '50s. Hard to explain, but it's a matter of taste. Both sound great, but I use the Dijons on my Hagstrom Swede's tone controls, and Vitamin Ts on the Swede's odd tone-switch (adding one of two extra caps into the circuit, I prefer a .001μF to add some bluesy grit). I have a .022μF Hovland MusiCap in my Strat, and while it sounds better than the stock green Fender caps, it has no real character and costs about as much as I spend on all of those MojoTone caps combined.