[sdiy] A question about Chorus

David G Dixon dixon at mail.ubc.ca
Sun Sep 1 09:40:54 CEST 2013


> Summing arbitrary 
> sines leads to a signal that has a high peak-to-average ratio 
> (sometimes known as "crest factor") unless you can control 
> the phase relationship between them.  A high crest factor 
> necessitates extra headroom (in your case a longer delay 
> line) and thus inefficient resource utilization.  This 
> doesn't cost you much of anything for a typical contemporary 
> digital realization, but is wasteful for analog 
> implementations.

What about taking the "Analog OR" of the various sines rather than summing
them?




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