[sdiy] The sound of various Op-Amps

[harrybissell]

cha-ching
(yes Ken... you the man !)

The 741 is a much maligned opamp. It does have several very good points...
it does not have a very fast slew rate (so it will not OSCILLATE like a TL07x
series does into a capacitive load - ask me cause it burned me again,
professionally...
just today :^).   It is very rugged and short circuit protected.  It will NOT
phase
reverse so you can safely clip it just by overdriving the input.

Sometimes these are exactly the characteristics you want

H^) harry

Ken Stone wrote:

> >
> >741
> >
> >*ducks*
>
> Well, it's the sound of the early to mid 70's at least. A hell of a lot of
> equipment used them, simply due to the lack of any real choice.  Of course,
> the 741 is the perfect op-amp for the D/A converter of the Digisound VCDO -
> it's slew does all the filtering that is needed.
>
> Ken
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