[sdiy] Discrete Op Amps

[Gordonjcp]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 11:19:48AM -0500, mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2017, Gordonjcp wrote:
> > They don't really make that much difference.  Certainly there's
> > absolutely no point doing all the crazy stuff that the "boutique pedal"
> > idiots do, like having switches to choose which colour of LED you use
> > for the clipper.
> 
> Different colours of LED have different forward voltages, so this would
> make more sense than some of the other things they do.

The curve is the same shape, so varying Vf would just alter the point where clipping starts - much the same as twiddling the gain pot.

It does not give a noticeably different sound.

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Gordonjcp MM0YEQ