[sdiy] Polymoog Resonantor Clone PCB preview

[JH.]

What, you don't bring it over your lips, the name of the faithful old 741?
Don't underestimate that opamp. It surely sounds like crap in HiFi circuits. But most electronic music devices aren't about sound 
reproduction, they are made for sound *shaping*. The 741 and 1458 are integral parts of the Schulte Compact A phaser and the phaser 
in the EMS HiFli, and I don't know any other opamp that would work as a drop-in replacement there! - They are used in vintage 
classics such as the EMS 8 Octave Filter Bank and the EMS vocoders, and while you *can* replace them there, many famour recordings 
have been made *with* them.
I look at components like these in a similar way as at analogue tape recording: Once you didn't have a choice, and had to make the 
best of it. Now you have a choice, and sometimes you decide for, and sometimes against it.

JH.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Lanterman" <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu>
To: "Synth DIY" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Polymoog Resonantor Clone PCB preview



On Aug 12, 2009, at 6:12 PM, JH. wrote:

> They are exactly what you think ... I think. :)

Would the op amp I'm thinking of happen to have a number whose first
two digits correspond to those of a large commercial airliner made by
Boeing? ;)

- Aaron
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