[sdiy] germanium vco experiment

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 17 Aug 2011, at 14:19, Harry Bissell wrote:

> The 'mojo' of the Germanium transistor is the lower B-E drop... you can make a fuzzier fuzzbox. OTOH
> you can do the same with shottky diodes

They also seem to have some wacky non-linearity from my experiments with 'em. Modern silicon is more linear for wider voltages, I reckon. Getting the mojo working is also partly tweaking bias to take advantage of what is basically a waveshaping function!

Tom