[sdiy] reamp?

[Kenneth Martinez]

After reading all that mumbo jumbo, I was having difficulty figuring out if the patent
applied merely to his circuit (which seems to be a transformer and pot, plus a few
resistors and a capacitor or two), or if it was meant to apply to the idea of recording a
flat signal and processing it afterwards.  Recording engineers have been playing back
recorded performances into outboard processing gear for a long, long time (including
playing back through instrument amps into mics for re-recording), and surely some have
recorded dry (flat) signals before with the express intent of processing them later...?


"tomg at efm" wrote:

> That's ridiculous......but whatever.... He has evidently got a
> patent for placing a level pot across the transformer and the idea
> that you can record a (flat) signal and then play it back through
> the instrument amplifier thus eliminating the need to replay the part
> over and over again by the musician.
>
> Just goes to show with the right wording you can get a patent
> on anything. That's not what I would call a strong patent.
>
> Tom
>
> > it's got a patent# on the site: 6,005,950
> >
> > look this up online, and see what's in it.
> >
> >
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netah
> tml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='6005950'.WKU.&OS=PN/6005950&RS=PN/6005950
> >
> > (that's a long url, careful when you cut & paste)
> >
> >
> > andy
> >
> >