Weber makes great speakers. I have 8 myself. When I strip off old coverings and there's gummy glue remaining, I use Citristrip to soften it up and then a natural rubber style eraser (I found mine on Amazon) to rub off the softened glue. It takes some time but works like a charm and is really good for taking a cab down to bare wood.

The sozos sound a bit brighter. The Jupiter's kinda muffled. Thanks for the comparison

Nice work I want to build one but board are sold out :(

Those Sozo's are pretty!

The real tone comes from your hands. Buying high priced capacitors are for suckers! its a guitar amp Mallory’s and orange drops ARE the tone of vintage amps. If they were good enough when they built the amp, they are good enough for me.

For what its worth, the Jupiters sound more "thick", maybe a bit more congested in the low mids than the Sozos. But, I'm just a half deaf 66 year older.

Jupiters by a very narrow hair's width, however you can still find original Astron Blue caps for less than new Jupiters so this is the real revelation.

red have warmer bass. I heard a bassman with NOS astrons which were totally different, more zingy. Look up "Millsapp".

Guitar applications don't necessarily demand a great capacitor. The guitar application seems to prefer color over accuracy. The higher spec audio capacitors tend to be more literal and don't necessarily make a better sounding guitar amp. Avoid ferromagnetic leads and you'll avoid the glare that so many commercial amps have. Jupiter makes fantastic products, they are the real deal.

Thank you for having short side by side clips to compare; that wook some work to put this together. In the single line riffs above the 12th and especially 15th fret the thin tone of the Orange Drops are readily apparent and the Sozos sound fatter and warmer. Elsewhere the Orange Drops exhibit the same unpleasant highs but not as apparent. For about 1/8 the price of the Sozos you can use Mallory 150s and get the same result.

For the money I would so Svetlana . But for tone the rca wins by a whisker .

Thanks for this video! I have a 1963 Ampeg Jet J-12-B with all orange drops. I am about to change them out for Sozo Blues. The orange drop polyesters (225p, etc) are OK. I watched a shoot out of the Sozo Blues against Mustards and while the Jupiter or Sozo Mustards have a pleasing tone, the Blues have that pleasant sheen on the high end. 1/4/24 Added note: I just ordered the Sozo blues for my Ampeg. It seems like the brown caps in your circuit are Panasonic polyester. I was actually thinking of going with them instead of Sozo or Jupiter. From what I understand, the Panasonic polyester caps are good. One amp tech who has a lot of videos on KZbin finds them to be good, and the expensive ones like Sozo and Jupiter to be snake oil. His amps sound amazing by the way ....

Give a slight edge, especially in the mid/high and highs, to the Red Jupiters. Too bad he didn't try Mallaory 150s at $1.19 each. Of course thy don't look at pretty

"Burning in" capacitors is only relevant for old electrolytic caps. It's not relevant for new electrolytic caps, or other types of caps (like those in this video). You can hear a tiny difference between the before/after clips. However, I would guess that's more likely due to minor changes to how the knobs on the amp were set for the clips, than from the change of capacitors. If you did a similar before/after without changing anything, I'm sure there would be a slight difference too.

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Cool setup!

love it - thanks!

I just took a 12" matched set and it sounds amazing with my marshall.

Thanks for this video. My CryBaby has decided it really likes radio stations, wondering if changing the inductor might be an answer. Can't really afford to move lol. Speakers improved when I moved them to another wall but the wah really catches those radio signals then amplifies them when you step on the pedal.

Sozo more open on top, Jupiter, more closed in on top fatter in lower mids.

Just go with what makes you happy brother 😎

NOS oil and paper caps can have dried out.

The Sozos seems slightly less compressed, slighty more dynamic, more toppy

Sozo, far away !

The bright cap on a 67 Bassman should be 120pf. I’ve seen it wrong from the factory. If it correct and not bright enough try a 50 or 60 pf. I’ve never seen one go open, also check the switch. The contacts get dirty. I generally use mallory 150 caps. There isn’t enough difference in tone worth the $10 premium.

hey thanks for the video! just from what I'm hearing in my headphones 1. they both sound great. 2. the Winged-C sounds a bit brighter and tighter, where the RCA is warmer. I have been thinking about trying the Svetlanas on the amp I'm building and I think I'm going to go with them.

Amazing Chip, sounds awesome, must feel amazing to play through, knowing you built it yourself. enjoy mate it's well deserved 👍

Surprised some people cant hear a difference, jupiter is softer, sozo slightly clearer. You should be wearing headphones to hear the diff.

Great pedal ... well done man .

I think the Jupiter's are fatter sounding. A bit more of something going on in the lower mids. It's a close call though. Not the same difference I have heard in other cap comparisons (like Wima vs Sozo etc...). I can appreciate the time you put into this.

The Jupiters sound a little more mellow. I like them!

I asked for AC/DC

Hello, good video. The "-" of the capacitors must be installed on the less sensitive side of the external parasites, therefore on the side of the lowest impedance, therefore on the anode side and not on the grid side.

I was definitely thinking of swapping my 498T to a P90 but not sure. Then I found your channel comparing the 2. I'm still not sure but I'm definitely leaning on the P90.

This kind of "cork sniffing" always amuses me. The difference is imperceptible in isolation. Sitting in a pristine mix, or with a band in a bar, or a garage, I would defy anyone to hear a difference. Impossible because there really isn't one. That said, those old Fenders sound great and sure are fun to tinker with. And if we're not having fun we're just wasting our time. Rock on.

You have to be methodical with the dangerous voltages, super fun at the same time deadly, take care thanks for sharing. I'm building my first tube amp and I have already taken months to learn and experiment with stuff even with years of electrical and electronics experience plus a degree in the field

It takes about 2 months to break caps, once broken in most caps even cheaper one sound better. Don't fall for the hype,a good self healing 630v poly or metal film cap is better then paper and oil. And those old blue ones fender used are horrible in there always out of spec from my experience. Those sozos are good caps they take a long time to break in. Once they do they sound great. Don't count on the sound u get right away, they will get better, once there broke in.

Super good caps can sound hifi, they don't sound all that great in guitar amps, the sound becomes clicky and poppy, I've tried just about every kind of caps. Your power supply caps are important as well as. Coupling caps. I use Jupiter electros, and vishey for my coupling caps. And I like Jupiters for bypass caps as well. It's given me great results I've built over 20 amps and repair probably 100 amps as well as radios. That bassmans wire is top notch, I love good wiring, so many amps of the 60s and seventies are great spggetti incidents. I use all 2 watt metal oxide resistors and 10 watt power resistors. Its over kill but I've never had a amp I built fail.

Definitely the 498 for me, but it could be a set up thing there. The Lindy sounds like you would put a pillow in front of the speakers

Thanks for the demo. The Heppners made a good difference. That setup is perfect for acoustic I bet.

If using the same cap or both without they don't sound alike. This setup kinda makes them "equal" and/or producing very similiar tones. Though in my opinion in this instance the P90 wins. However this is not always true. Lindy's are top of the line. Go cheaper and the P90 loses.

I think it’s the cap that makes the difference. Baseball caps in particular more so than golf caps which give it a more subtle whiskey-corny tone IMHO.

0:00 -intro 1:04 -installation timelapse 1:33 -installation recap 2:58 -shootup lead in 3:13 -Gibson 498T chords 3:35 -Lindy P90 chords 3:59 -Gibson 498T lead 4:08 -Lindy P90 lead 4:17 -Gibson 498T fuzz tone 4:25 -Lindy P90 fuzz tone 4:46 -PLEASE LIKE, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT

It's been great following you, Chip. I have the HarbingerTWO PCB myself. A Univibe in a treadled pedal is pretty Dunlop's Rotovibe which is also a great pedal. A little bit goes a long way. Actually I have about 300 different PCBs from Madbean and many others. Excited about building the Harbinger as I have a deep affinity for treadle-based effects. Looking at building an echo inside a treadle in order to get wonky distorted repeats. Now that it's built, do you have any thoughts about using a white LED instead of a incandescent lamp for the extended life? I'm thinking in going that direction myself.

Another YEP pedal build; love it Chip! (YEP = Yamada Elbow Productions.)

0:00 -intro 1:35 -lamp 2:24 -switches and knobs 3:38 -enclosure notes 6:02 -Expression 7:07 -lushness and gooeyness 7:57 -Univibe Build 11:34 -matching transistors 12:41 -Drilling Enlcosure 16:29 -Univibe label, Enclosure Art 18:05 -painting Enclosure 20:54 -Univibe DEMOS 23:12 -Univibe vs PHASE 90 23:41 -outro

Can't tell a difference. Sounds like you couldn't either...?

0:00 -intro 2:36 -SOZO chords [Volume 5] 2:52 -JUPITER chords [Volume 5] 3:11 -SOZO low melody [Volume 5] 3:20 -JUPITER low melody [Volume 5] 3:28 -SOZO 12th fret melody [Volume 5] 3:35 -JUPITER 12th fret melody [Volume 5] 3:43 -SOZO high melody [Volume 5] 3:49 -JUPITER high melody [Volume 5] 3:55 -SOZO chords 2 [Volume 5] 4:12 -JUPITER chords 2 [Volume 5] 4:30 -SOZO chords [Volume 7] 4:45 -JUPITER chords [Volume 7] 5:04 -SOZO low melody [Volume 7] 5:13 -JUPITER low melody [Volume 7] 5:21 -SOZO 12th fret melody [Volume 7] 5:28 -JUPITER 12th fret melody [Volume 7] 5:36 -SOZO high melody [Volume 7] 5:42 -JUPITER high melody [Volume 7] 5:48 -SOZO chords2 [Volume 7] 6:05 -JUPITER chords 2 [Volume 7] 6:23 -SOZO chords [Volume 10] 6:42 -JUPITER chords [Volume 10] 7:01 -SOZO low melody [Volume 10] 7:09 -JUPITER low melody [Volume 10] 7:18 -SOZO 12th fret melody [Volume 10] 7:25 -JUPITER 12th fret melody [Volume 10] 7:32 -SOZO high melody [Volume 10] 7:38 -JUPITER high melody [Volume 10] 7:44 -SOZO chords 2 [Volume 10] 8:02 -JUPITER chords 2 [Volume 10] 8:20 -outro 9:01 -final noodles

The Sozo's sounded more open to me, and warmer. They probably need some brake in time for the grittiness to mellow out. The OD's sounded more compressed, and less airy. Perhaps bit sterile, but not necessarily in a bad way. Just smooth. I think I prefer the character of the Sozo caps. The difference is more noticeable with gain.

The Sozo's sound seem to sound "clearer" or brighter at 7+ volume. Otherwise no difference. Of course, if you take KZbin compression into account, it may be that there's more of a difference, but I would echo @DreamingOne 's sentiments - difference is in high frequencies. If you're really looking to change your sound, the act of changing the speakers is going to make the biggest difference - far more so than any other individual component in the signal chain. And in the discharge capacitors section, you've got the sepia-toned video of the orange drops but my eye caught that you are showing a discharge on the plugged in amp after you've already changed to the blue Sozos... Presumably you were trying to discharge after testing so the chassis would be safer? Is the death cap out of the circuit? It appears to still be in the chassis.