wierd ring type thing...

[Tim Walters]

At 12:27 AM 4/1/98, Ken Stone wrote:
>rather pointless. Ring mods are really only any fun when the frequencies of
>the two signals are different. An octave shift isn't different enough.
>
>anyone care to put this in tech-speak? :)

This depends on the nature of the input signals.  With oscillator
waveforms, you're pretty much right, but with external audio, squaring
(i.e., running the same input into both sides of a ring mod) can be quite
nice.  It's quite different from merely revving it up an octave with a
harmonizer, because the inharmonicities multiply.  Spoken word is
particularly good--you get a lovely distorted Donald Duck-ish sound.


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