[sdiy] simple nasty clipping?

[James Patchell]

You mean something like this?

http://www.oldcrows.net/~patchell/synthmodules/shaper.html



At 12:56 PM 3/6/2004 -0500, Colin Hinz wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, gregory zifcak wrote:
>
> > does anyone know of a really nasty really simple distortion circuit? i 
> tried
> > the two diodes shunted to ground, and it was nice, but not tearing. do i
> > need to somehow boost the level first? i'm trying to build this into a
> > pre-existing device, so small and simple = better.
>
>I've been doing a bit of restoration work on damaged recordings, so
>currently I've got a heightened awareness of the sorts of distortion
>which sound really raunchy.
>
>What if, instead of clipping the signal, you "fold it back", which
>is to say, if your "raunch level" is set at 1V, and your signal
>peaks at 1.4V, it gets folded over to become 0.6V.
>
>Implementation is left to the analog wizards.....
>
>- Colin Hinz
>   Toronto, Canada
>
>| "You know you've been in this business too long when you look
>| in the fridge and decide to have legacy food instead of cooking
>| something fresh for dinner."  -- Mike Gunderloy

         -Jim
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