[sdiy] tanh distortion in a filter

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"David G. Dixon" <dixon at interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
>> > What does it do?  (as in what does it sound like?)
>> 
>> Slight fuzz / soft clipping.
>
>So, is anybody here going to answer my (potentially stupid) question about
>using a sine shaper as a preamp, or am I just going to have to wire one up
>and try it myself?  Sine shapers are essentially tanh operators, are they
>not?  This could be done with a differential pair or an overdriven OTA.

(in "duh" mode himself) - you mean like using a sine function as a transfer function
for some signal path?  as in a preamp that disorts like a sine function from -pi/2 to
+pi/2?

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