[sdiy] Yet another try at explaining beat tones, etc.

[Needham, Alan]

>OTOH, an AM detector in a radio receiver is refered to as a "mixer".
>So in this context "mixing" is nonlinear, in contradistinction to your 
>statement above.  :-)
>
>   Ian

>What makes it extra complicated is radio engineers will call their 
>multiplier a 'mixer,' although that's not a use of the word mixer that 
>music people would use. (Our 'mixers' add, not multiply.
>
>- Aaron

And what radio geeks call a mixer, synth geeks call a ring modulator!

HTH, Confucious

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