[sdiy] Building a Better Bass Patch

[harry bissell]

LOL... actually I think that I agree with you... The 'phasing' is
more a function of the real 'stiffness' of the string making the
harmonics sharp, and that causes the beating.

I know that the string actually vibrates in an eliptical
orbit (for want of the proper math term but I think its
epicycloid). I think this is a more minor effect.

Why does the string have different horizontal and vertical
stiffness ??? Magnetic field ???

"Looks like" in this case is over the course of an entire note
(envelope) rather than waveform...

If we can't agree we could take it over to Analogue Heaven  :^)

H^) harry

Antti Huovilainen wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Harry Bissell Jr wrote:
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>   
>> OTOH a real bass guitar would have only
>> "one" string so thats like one oscillator
>> anyway.
>>     
>
> Wrong. The string has slightly different tension in horizontal and 
> vertical direction so the vibrations have slightly different frequencies 
> and you do indeed get phasing.
>
>   
>> pitch extractors. It really does look very much like
>> the real thing.
>>     
>
> Unfortunately the eye is not as sensitive to small amplitudes as the ear 
> is, so simple because a waveform looks similar to another does not mean 
> they sound the same (just try 50% vs 48% pulse wave on a digital synth).
>
> Antti
>
> "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow"
>   -- Lt. Cmdr. Ivanova
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