Buggy Whips [was]Re: [sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?

[TIm Daugard]

> As somebody who has broken down a violin into individual harmonics and
> resynthesized it, there was no perceivable audible contribution of
> surrounding strings to the sound.  Sometimes people put theories above
> observation.  If anything gives a sample away from the real thing it's the
> lack of realistic legato phrasing or dynamic control of the sample (and I'm

Hard to believe, but I don't play violin. On my bass guitar, (especially on my
acoustic/electric) the three other strings can contribute quite a bit of
harmonics. Depending on what sound I'm trying to get, I have to mute the strings
I'm not using. I use palm muting, fretting hand muting, picking finger muting,
and some times a piece of foam as a mute.

If I want I can get at least one or two of the strings vibrating with
sympathitic vibrations. This makes for a nice dynamic tone with the harmonic
content changing over a period of time. Unfortunately, if I'm using a high gain
setting or a module to create sub-harmonics, these sympathetic vibrations cause
intermod distortion that is horrible.

Tim Daugard
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