Lamar Owen wrote: >On Tuesday 12 November 2002 09:49, Tim Goetze wrote: >> more interesting is that if you feed it a sine wave, the >> circuit *never* clips the lower lobe, it rather seems to >> compress so the lower lobe never hits the end of the curve. >> it does clip the lower lobe of a triangle however. > >This is interesting.
i'd like to understand why, but in the meantime implementing similar behaviour is not that hard. :) >So the SPICE sims have helped. Great! I know that SPICE is the cat's meow >for electronic/electrical design problems, which is where I've used it in the >past. It's just not quite fast enough to do real-time effects processing, >even on current hardware. yep, it's a great program, and in true grand old unix spirit, it hides behind an unfriendly and fiendish interface. ;) judging from execution times on this box, you'd probably need something like a recent 32-way cluster to run a whole amp sim in realtime. tim
