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This is a popular approach with 2-stage triode amplifiers. The input tube provides an inverted signal to the grid of the output tube. If you set up the operating points carefully, you can arrange that the 2nd harmonic from the first tube is opposite to that of the second tube.
Why? 😱
Do you mean Marshall, Fender, Peavey, and similar amps were made in Soviet Union?
No. Soviet plants used to made for guitars the same amps as for Hi-Fi, because it was believed that distorted sound of capitalist guitars was not politcorrect for scientifically organized and well planned society. 😀
When I built my guitar amps for sale I was taking a risk of being arrested and sued for illegal entrepreneurship. Everything had to be made on People Owned (read Government) Plants, according to 5 Year Plans.
Hmmm... May be VaH?
Variable Harmonizer. Vah.
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Isn't that called General Motors......Never mind I didn't say that......Knock Knock......Click.......Bang......
That does sound like a knob found on a heavy metal guitar amp.
Does anybody remember the Aphex Aural Exciter? No it is not a sex toy.
I didn't know it until I just Googled, but the exciter is still being made. Now the Aural Exciter comes with "Big Bottom" for even more excitement! This gizmo came out in the 70's and was marketed as a cure for the blandness of modern solid state sound. I listened to one in the 70's at a local high end shop and it sounded quite nice, but cost far too much.
VaH?... Why bother? If it were a guitar effect I'd called it "The dislocator". Company name would be Stoned Engineering.
Gee, sounds familiar, I have heard that somewhere recently.
Guitar boxes need gimmick names, and Dislocator would probably work, but I doubt that this circuit produces a rude enough effect for anything but an acoustic guitar.
There are some good tubes currently being marketed by Electro Harmonix. EH got their start selling guitar effects boxes. Some popular names were Big Muff and Bad Stone.
My favorite sound from the 60's came from a Vox Tone Bender. It used two germanium transistors to extract maximum scream from your guitar. I made several clones and still have one. The same circuit was used in the Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face.
See the article on hangover pages 60-106 in the Audio folder here
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My Korg Polysix has a resonance control that introduces positive feedback in one of the circuits which produces more harmonics.
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My Korg Polysix has a resonance control that introduces positive feedback in one of the circuits which produces more harmonics.
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LOL, not hard to remember, is it?. You posted it yesterday. Dislocator wasn't borrowed though.
There were many variations of the Tone Bender. My favorite is the two transistor version from about 1967. The choice of transistor is somewhat critical. Silicon sounds really bad. Old germanium is your friend. I used parts from an old Sony radio.
Fuzz Central -- Vox Tonebender
This will drive the audiophiles nuts or maybe they will like it.
Wavebourn thanks for the hardware and the fun.
DT
All just for fun!
here's a refinement:
Spectral Harmonic Recovery and Enhancement Device
My first fuzz boz was a EH "Little Muff". It had the best sounds of the Big Muff and plugged right into the guitar. For some reasoon they used the greek letter pi on these... Muff? Pi...??? Go figure
The Aphex Aural Exciter was THE effect to use on your album at one time. The Aural Exciter is one of thoes pieces like the Distressor that will never go out of style completely.
The thingy that's responsible for starting the current fad of crushing the life out music is called the Waves L2 Sonic Maximizer😱
Spectral Harmonic Recovery and Enhancement Device
My first fuzz boz was a EH "Little Muff". It had the best sounds of the Big Muff and plugged right into the guitar. For some reasoon they used the greek letter pi on these... Muff? Pi...??? Go figure
The Aphex Aural Exciter was THE effect to use on your album at one time. The Aural Exciter is one of thoes pieces like the Distressor that will never go out of style completely.
The thingy that's responsible for starting the current fad of crushing the life out music is called the Waves L2 Sonic Maximizer😱
I sure remember the Aphex Aural Exciter. Think there is one around the shop somewhere.
One of the young guys even used it on talking head corporate lecture stuff. Actually helps.
One of the young guys even used it on talking head corporate lecture stuff. Actually helps.
I despise cheap PA systems. The sound makes you want to fall asleep, even when you're actually INTERESTED in the topic. If only places would take the hint... Or maybe it's the speakers more than the amps? Well, it's all about "audibility" and "legibility" and so the crappier it sounds the better... (usually it's an EQ boost straight into cliipping at speech frequencies - OH GOD MY EARS) This technique is also used in TV commercials, much to my torment. Even worse when it causes your plastic TV speakers to buzz.
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This was far from cheap, All Meyer Sound.
"You can buy better speakers, but you can't pay more for them." 😉
Meyer is actually top of the line
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