[sdiy] inductor based distortion

[andy]

	The characteristic "nice" distortion of the most revered mic
preamps is due to a large extent from the transformers they use, so there
is certainly some basis for that idea. I don't know that it's a large
amount of distortion, usually it's on the level of "coloration" more than
anything, but depending on what you want that could actually be better.

	andy

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Toby Paddock wrote:

> Are there distortion circuits based on inductors?
> It's something I think about once in a while, but
> haven't done anything about. (typical for me)
>
> Like where an inductor saturates. Or maybe falls
> out of saturation, say it was biased into
> saturation kind of sort of like a mag amp.
>
> Just seems like there may be some interesting
> nonlinear nasties to exploit.
>
> Later,
> Toby
> Paddock
>