[sdiy] Replacing CA3080 with CA3046 ??

Tom Arnold xyzzy at sysabend.org
Sat Apr 9 21:55:39 CEST 2005


On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 12:28:40AM -0700, Tim Parkhurst wrote:
>  Seems like a discrete transistor OTA might not be the best (or easiest) VCA
> solution. Check out Jorgen's VCA comparison at
> 
> http://www.idg.se/personal/bergfors/bergfotron/VCA.htm
> 
> This comparison shows that actually the lowly 13600 makes a pretty darn good
> VCA. This list includes the 3080 , the SSM2024, 3046 and 3086-based OTAs,
> amongst others. It doesn't include the 3280 or 5517 however. 

Lets also not forget that the NE570 can be used as a dual VCA fairly easily.
Thomas Henry really likes doing that.

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