Well...Ive been researching...not finding much prior to the OD1...yet.analogguru wrote:As a wrote above:MoreCowbell wrote:The design of the TS-808 is credited to a "Mr. S. Tamura" .
He was the senior engineer at Nisshin Onpa (Maxon)
It is not interesting who "designed" the TS-808 or Toobscreamer or how you want to name the particular product of Ibanez....
The question is:
"Who was the first, who used two or more diodes in the feedback loop of a non-inverting op-amp in a stompbox ?"
And as far as the research shows up until now, I am sure it was not "Mr. S. Tamura" - he was maybe the one who "bootweaked" the Boss OD-1 circuit from 3 to 2 diodes only.
analogguru
perhaps we should also be looking at early synthesizer circuits ?