Its likely the builder chose this device because it offers rail-to-rail output and didn't consider the composition of the transistors in the device. The TLC2274 is a quad opamp which is a different device with different design considerations compared to a CMOS inverter which the other devices in this thread are. The two aren't interchangeable in function and inverters are primarily used in pedals for their pleasing clipping characteristics with minimal additional tone shaping required.Dandolin wrote:i am kinda interested now in why the cloner thought using CMOS/kinda MOSFET devices was the way to go instead of just using JFET ics like the OG?
Also worth splitting CMOS discussion out into the two common uses which are making things sound tubey and doing logic-level trickery with square waves. All the tubey sounding things stem from the Craig Anderton Tube Sound Fuzz which Jorge Tripps copied for the Red Llama. This includes the Blackstone Mosfet OD and other similar designs. The glitchy pedals that use inverters are usually hitting them with a very loud signal to produce a squarewave and then manipulating that squarewave with bias tweaks and feedback loops to create a dynamic experience from a signal which actually has no dynamic range (because its a square wave).
