Also, some sort of clipping could add intermodulation sidebands, but the
output would likely sound noticebly distorted. Are the sidebands clean,
maybe try two sinewave inputs with low resonance and high cutoff.
Dave
Mark wrote:
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> I don't think there is a way to break a 440 in order to turn it into
> a ring modulator.
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> Is it possible that what you are hearing is phase cancelation?? Can
> you get the same effect with the bass enhance set to normal, and the
> resonance set at zero??
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> You would also get unexpected results if you accidently swapped one
> or more of the inputs on the front panel. For example, and I have
> not tried this myself, if you sent audio to to the resonance input
> you might get a ring mod effect (a VCA is two-quadrant multiplier, a
> ring-mod is a four-quadrant multiplier, and sometimes a VCA, even
> something like a limiter, can malfunction as such).
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> I would check to see if all of your jacks are labeled properly.
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> On 3/26/07, sduck409 put forth:
>>I've had my 440 for a while, built it from a kit maybe a year ago,
>>but haven't had a lot of time
>>to mess with it besides some basic usage. Last night I was using the
>>mixing part of it for the
>>first time, and noticed an anomoly - the inputs are ring modulating
>>each other. Two
>>oscillators (300s), into inputs 1 and 2 (or any other combo), and
>>twiddle the frequency knobs
>>on the oscillators, and I get all kinds of extra sideband
>>frequencies. Sounds just like a ring
>>modulator. The exact same patch into my 480, and no problems, just
>>the 2 frequencies, not
>>interacting. Guess I've done something wrong - any ideas what?
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