[sdiy] First two project reports are in!

[Aaron Lanterman]

See

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~lanterma/studentprojects

You can hack your Boss BF-2 Flanger, or build The Lanterman Drive (I feel 
really guilty having a device named after me that I barely understand), 
which somehow uses FETs to force the output stage of an op amp to stay 
juicy. The distortion is actually occuring in the op amp. I've seen 
discussions on tricks like that on trying to make an op amp have _less_ 
distortion - I don't think I've ever seen anyone use it as a technique to 
try to deliberately torture the op amp!

Brian & Erin (the students who built it) soldered a TL072 into place; in 
retrospect they wish they had socketed it to try other op amps.

- Aaron

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