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so im building a wooly mammoth clone and i bought two 1uF and two 20uF electolictic film caps instead of two 10N and 20uF... will these still work... if so.. how should i orient them.. if not.. i have two .1uF trop fish caps... would subbing these in place of the 10n's (which arnt the same as .1uFs) work... im pretty sure that the 10N caps are input/output... so woulndt .1uF give me more fuzz (the more the merrier)???? Thanks
Electrolytics will work, if they are in the signal path, + is the input and – is the out put. In other places such as filtering and tone shaping the – would normally go to ground. If your working with an old NPN GE fuzz with positive ground or any thing else using negative voltage, then the + would go to ground.
2nd question;
The larger cap values won't give you more fuss in the in/out positions. They will however allow the circuit to pass lower frequencies do more bass.