Why is no one talking about this?

[ICTRock]

 

[JohnnyCreepy]

Yeah, but it’s shiny.

It ain’t Life. But does it even doom???

 

[darwin999]

The most revealing comment about the price is that they mention "Special Financing" at the bottom...
And "Sterling Vermin" sounds too much like Mitt Romney's joke nickname, "Stormin' Mormon"...

 

[Coda]

The Rat is overrated as is. Doesn’t even have a buffer!…

 

[HamishR]

Maybe they're preparing us for the shiny gold one... MARA!!

 

[Nostradoomus]

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They made the mistake of looking at TGP.

 

[NickKUK]

Lets make a discrete rat! I'd use this opamp work-alike instead of the full 741, though.

Issue with the design in that link is it has the differential amp, the gain stage but is missing a cathode follower stage to provide output drive so it's going to be very susceptible to the following load variation in changing the sound.

Or you could make a full tube opamp - with the four triode sections, you have a differential amp, gain stage and cathode follower driver in two tube. It even works with low gain tubes like the 12au7 and 12bh7a at 12V on the plate:



Reference the gain grid into the 12V rather than ground with a variable resistor to control the gain.

Add diodes as you will.. add $300 for having tubes = profit.

Almost every unobtainium component pedal can be simulated it just takes a long time to do, either via analogue or digital.

 

[Nostradoomus]

nothing will ever compare to some shitty components and an even shittier opamp getting a train run on it