[sdiy] Quirky parts vendors

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:37:12 pm Dave Manley wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> >> Did spot some nifty precision pot knobs that would probably get the EMS
> >> crowd excited. A lot of germanium diodes for the distortion freaks.
> >> Variable caps & slug-tuned inductors maybe not so useful for SDIY
> >> though.
> >
> > Hey,  didn't the ARP Omni use a slug-tuned coil for a master tuning coil?
> >  (Or should that be "tunning"?)  Dunno what value that was offhand, 
> > though.
>
> Solina too.

Only one of them I ever saw was the String Ensemble,  and I haven't looked at 
the schematic for that one for at least 20 years,  maybe 25.

That's the only thing I remember that actually used a 709 op amp (and there 
was a 741 in there too).  I don't remember much else about it.


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