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Return of the audio format wars and other money-making scams

Franco

Re: Hmmm...

"But but but, surely the whole point is to create the right type of noise and distortion. You don't want some random distortion because you used shitty opamps!"

Of course not, but the problem is that your standard opamp is an off the shelf part designed for millions of applications, and not one of them was to create distortion. I won't bore everyone with the relative performance of different 4558 style dual opamps in an Ibanez Tubescreamer, except to say that from an electronics point of view they should all perform roughly the same. However, in this application, they do not which is why people will pay silly amounts of money for an NOS JRC4558D equipped Tubescreamer compared to one equipped with a TA75558P.

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