Doepfer

Hi,

A question about passive mults. I want to put the signals from two oscillators (prob Rubicons) at very high frequencies together to have the beat frequency in the audio range. Difference tones or I've sometimes heard it called Heterodyning. I have read about doing it with a mixer - but if I used a mult (in reverse - ie two inputs and taking one output) it would be non linear and give more rich harmonics - or so I understand. ( Page 175 Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques and Controls, Allen Strange). But my question is do passive mults work in this way? Is it safe? - ie not going to damage the oscillators in some way?

This comes from reading about Pauline Oliveros's early electronic music and listening to a lot of her music. There are sound textures that I really liked but didn't know how they were made until recently reading about her using supra sonic tones to create beat frequencies in the audio range. 

Hope someone can answer about the mults as non linear mixers,

David

www.movingisliving.co.uk

Sent from my iPhone