I had the pleasure to work on a Soldano designed amp (Yamaha T-100). Once I got it fixed (2 resistors burnt off), it was a hell of an amp. What makes me wonder, that compared to a Marshall amp, you could get a super overdriven sound with very low noise. The marshall basically spit out noise on the same level as the guitar signal. This made me thinking about this high gain theories. Actually, a 12AX7 allows for about 20 dB gain. I need to dig further down, but simply applying high gain and a clip curve doesn’t do the trick.
Steffan On 17 Jun 2014, at 21:30, Nigel Redmon <earle...@earlevel.com> wrote: > Yes, Robert…but, with the kind of gain necessary…OK, so you have the y-xis as > you output level, x-axis as input. To view the entire curve for a Soldano > Super Lead Overdrive, for instance, you draw the curve of your choice to rise > from y=0 and give you a soft bend into y=1 (full output). The bend will be > somewhere around x=1, ballpark (maybe it’s x=2 or 3, to allow for lower input > levels, but the point is that it’s a small number compared to what’s coming > next)…then you allow for x=30000 or so (a flatline from the x=1..3 area). Is > that not a pretty high order polynomial? > -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp
