oasysfan2 wrote:
>I've been discussing the sound of the CS-80 ring modulator on the
>CS-80V group, and I wanted to ask for your insight here. Listening to
>Richard Lawson's demo,
>
>http://www.rlmusic.co.uk/mals_site/mp3s/cs80_700.mp3
>
>it sounds like the CS-80 RM is mono. i.e. the ring modulation between
>:09 and 0:19 doesn't pan back and forth. What's confusing is I found
>another CS-80 RM example in which the RM sound definitely moves back
>and forth in the stereo field.
>
>http://personal.inet.fi/private/matador/cs-80_user_ringmod.mp3
>
>What am I hearing? Is it because chorus is on (not sure if it is),
>and the RM is subject to the stereo chorus? Thanks for any help in
>better understanding the original.
>
>
The ring-mod is mono. In fact, the whole CS-80 is mono until it gets to
the chorus. Here's the detailed block diagram:
http://www.synthfool.com/schematics/cs80_2.jpg. You can see the the
signal becomes stereo on the OE2 board, which is the guts of the
chorus/tremelo.
David