Heh, a 741 op-amp was my very first guitar amp. I used that while I saved up to get a real amp. I had some janky circuit I made up using a 9v battery, a few re

Heh, a 741 op-amp was my very first guitar amp. I used that while I saved up to get a real amp. I had some janky circuit I made up using a 9v battery, a few resistors and a little speaker and some scant knowledge from my EE 214 class. Got some sick distortion out of that thing. But I think my circuit drew too much current because the op-amps would only last a week or two before burning out (and ran quite hot), but they were cheap to replace. Details are a bit sketchy because this would have been in 1991.