MOTM

Okay, reality shift.

I thought a two-quadrant multiplier was a VCA, and a four-quadrant
multiplier was a balanced (hence the name) or "ring" (because of the
original diode ring designs for radio modulators) modulator.

Suddenly everyone's talking about the interesting, richer sounds of
2-quadrant ring modulation.

Isn't a VCA a VCA and not a ring modulator because of the lack of the
zero-crossing/multiplication/"other two artesian quadrants" in its
modulation?

Have I been laboring under a massive delusion all these decades? Or is
everyone joking and I'm just not getting it...?

Inquiring minds need to know!!  ;)



 -----Original Message-----
From: 	davevosh@... [mailto:davevosh@...] 
Sent:	Wednesday, 08 November, 2000 11:31 PM
To:	motm@egroups.com
Subject:	Re: [motm] Different ring mod sounds

In a message dated 00-11-08 21:40:05 EST, you write:

<< 
 Does the two quadrant multiplication result in a different sounding output 
 than four quadrant multipliers?
  >>


john,
 i would have thought that 2q mult would have a "richer" spectrum as the 
original freq`s aren`t suppressed like they are in 4q ...