Germanium?

[Tony Hardie-Bick]

On 05/02/2019 13:17, Michael Zacherl wrote:
> 
>> On 2 Feb 2019, at 16:58, Tony Hardie-Bick <tony at entity.net> wrote:
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>>  they're using silicon
>> transistors instead of germanium,
> 
> uhm, Tony, did I miss something? Germanium?

the original moog ladder filters used germanium transistors, iirc.

that gives them a lower Vbe of around ~ 0.4V?

this was mentioned by Uli Behringer, where he was discussing the
circuits in-depth (on a mailing list, iirc)

t.