On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:18 am, Paul Winkler wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:43:14PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > > Class A design has it's strong points. As long as you are in a good > > linear portion of the transconductance curve you're OK.
> As a sometime guitarist, I'd say Class A has its strong points well > into distortion... But then the amplifier is *producing* sound rather than *reproducing* sound, and has become a form of compressor. A compressor with some interesting curves, maybe, but a compressor nonethless. And a compressor one can model and produce identical characteristics in effects plugins. :-) As a sometimes guitar player myself, that is. Still have my copy of Anderton's 'Electronic Projects for Musicians' lying around here. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
