<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 at 20:36, Bernard Arthur Hutchins, Jr <<a href="mailto:bah13@cornell.edu">bah13@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">(1) <span> </span>In a synthesizer with standard signal levels of +/- 5, has anyone even HEARD Johnson noises, let alone been able to attribute it to a particular resistance?</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A polyphonic drum machine with overdrive on each voice, summing into a master distortion and master compressor - that was practically impossible to get as silent as expected. Lots of small signal gain in both voices and on main mix. </div><div><br></div><div>+/- 5 V is indeed loud compared to the noise floor, but the real world isn't so simple! :-)</div><div>It's a bit like in digital audio: 16-bit resolution is enough for playback of a finished musical production, but it's not enough for the tracks, recordings and treatments that made up that music.</div><div><br></div><div>/mr </div></div></div>