[sdiy] FETs for distortion

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Saturday 31 December 2005 09:00 am, Seb Francis wrote:
> I think these two are JFETs.  I wonder if I would get a different sound
> using MOSFETs?  I haven't seen them used in any schematics, and I've
> heard they are damaged by static very easily, but someone on this list
> said recently that they give a nice soft clipping (I'm not sure if this
> comment also applied to JFETs, or was specific about MOSFETs).

I think Craig Anderton did such in one of his projects,  using a CMOS gate 
chip biased into the linear region.  Yeah,  it was a 4049 chip,  in the "Tube 
Sound Fuzz"...

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