I used germanium diodes, I mean, not leds. Actually, I used leaky,
sadly-good-for-nothing-else OC44 germanium transistors as diodes to
replace the 1N4148s in my functioning Synthacon filter. No diff.
That being said...I did use the OC44s as diodes to some effect in
salvaging the circuit of my faulty first attempt at a steiner filter,
where I added switchable feedback loops between the various diode
juncture points (and elsewhere). Kills the thing as a filter per se but
makes a lovely, highly-mutable distortion device that reacts to the
multiple inputs in very interesting ways. Noisy, cross-cancelling
diode-harmonic, squarewave ways. Here I can discern some small
differences between types of diodes but really can't say it is due to
germanium or silicone as there are other factors at play.
ken johnston wrote:
sadly-good-for-nothing-else OC44 germanium transistors as diodes to
replace the 1N4148s in my functioning Synthacon filter. No diff.
That being said...I did use the OC44s as diodes to some effect in
salvaging the circuit of my faulty first attempt at a steiner filter,
where I added switchable feedback loops between the various diode
juncture points (and elsewhere). Kills the thing as a filter per se but
makes a lovely, highly-mutable distortion device that reacts to the
multiple inputs in very interesting ways. Noisy, cross-cancelling
diode-harmonic, squarewave ways. Here I can discern some small
differences between types of diodes but really can't say it is due to
germanium or silicone as there are other factors at play.
ken johnston wrote:
> I have. Did not make any difference I could hear, and I have good ears,[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> I swear.
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