[sdiy] Deep thoughts on Old drum machines: the "VCA"

[Mattias Rickardsson]

Brian Willoughby <brianw at audiobanshee.com> skrev:

> One interesting side-effect of the swing VCA is that it creates a DC
> offset in the signal that a real VCA mostly avoids. This potential problem
> is removed by capacitively coupling the different audio stages together, so
> that any DC offset is removed. However, even an AC-coupled system can pop
> when the DC offset changes abruptly. For percussion sounds, though, this
> abrupt pop might actually be an improvement to the sound.
>

Probably also for synth sounds. Among all potential cases of people saying
that "the old synth sounds better than the new
version/clone/emulation/whatever", offset thumps might be one of the
unknown secrets that reverse engineers often miss.

/mr
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