LM308N - Any Non-Rat Pedals Use It?

[Chuck D. Bones]

I recently breadboarded a Roger Mayer Voodoo 1*. It uses an LM308 and unlike the Rat, it won't work right if you sub in another random single opamp. The LM308 is low power and in the Voodoo 1, that's important because of how RM arranged the power filtering. No, the Voodoo 1 is not a Rat. Save the LM308s for circuits that need them and build up a stock of good single opamps: LF351, TL071, OP07, CA3130, etc. for everything else.

* I'll post something about that breadboard in the usual place this weekend.

 

[jesuscrisp]

DOD250/Distortion Plus do also sound good using an LM308. I bet you could also use it in place of the LM741 in an op amp muff, just maybe try to include the compensation cap.

And I disagree with the OP07 being just as good but that's another topic.