[sdiy] Mixer levels

[jhaible]

> I know what you're saying, but your example doesn't seem to work.

The clipping of two *noninvertet* SAWs (ordinary beating of two
SAW VCOs, overdriving a VCF) produces the "clipped modulation"
effect. This is *similar* (not equal) to the PWM with clipped LFO
wave. Similar in its "clipped movement", not in waveform.
(The equivalence of PWM and detuned SAWs occurs with invertet
SAWs - but then I think it's a "thru-zero-PWM" instead of PWM with
ordinary modulation.)


> When you add the two saws you get a pulse wave with two levels.
> Clipping won't really affect it since a clipped pulse is still a
> pulse.  The pulse width and timbre still change if the saws are
> slightly different frequency.

Right.

JH.






>
> This topic does bring to mind how cutting frequencies with an EQ can
> actually boost the instantaneous peak level in some cases, depending
> on phase, possibly exceeding headroom and causing distortion.
>
> Tom.
>