[sdiy] MPF102 replacements

David G Dixon dixon at mail.ubc.ca
Sun Sep 11 21:44:20 CEST 2011


> On Sep 11, 2011, at 16:20, Paul Schreiber wrote:
> > What's wrong with this one?
> 
> I certainly don't know, but I've seen it cropping up often on 
> stompbox  
> forums, along with the BS170 and 2N5457 as replacements for 
> unobtanium   
> FETs.
> 
> Paul S - do you (or anyone else) have an opinion to share on 
> the part and its usefulness in synth circuits? -  Is it any 
> good in synth apps, particularly in VCO cores?

It's a MOSFET rather than a JFET, so I don't think it is a simple drop-in
replacement (but I could be smokin' crack -- again).




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