[sdiy] XOR ringmod

Martin Fay martin at manikin.force9.co.uk
Fri Jul 18 15:15:22 CEST 2003


>Are the XOR gate ring modulator designs a true ring mod effect? in other 
>words, if I put in 220Hz and 880Hz will I have sidebands at 660Hz and 
>1100Hz?

They're equivalent to ring modulating pulse waves. This means much
more complex sidebands than if the carrier is a sine wave. Those
sideband frequencies will be there along with frequencies due to all
the harmonics in the pulse wave.


Martin

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