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I think it's the odd transharmonic (or total harmonic?) distortion that sounds pleasing if I recall my sound engineering from a zillion years ago, an even THD d
by dghughes 12y ago
I think it's the odd transharmonic (or total harmonic?) distortion that sounds pleasing if I recall my sound engineering from a zillion years ago, an even THD doesn't sound good.
- TylerE 12y agoNom pe. Opposite.
- kazinator 12y agoThere is a hypothesis that asymmetric clipping in single-ended tube stages produces even harmonics that sound good. However, asymmetric non-tube circuits (e.g. diodes or whatever) do not have the tube sound (merely on account of doing asymmetric clipping and nothing else). Furthermore, tube power amp sections are often push-pull: symmetric clipping when overloaded. The saturation of output transformer cores is also symmetric. "THD" is just a summary of all nonlinear distortion of a signal.
- TylerE 12y agoIt get's even more interesting... The (these days) extremely rare germanium semiconductors sound better than modern silicon semiconducters....so the guys building fuzz and other similar effects are using the dwindling supply of NOS germanium transistors and diodes. Germanium conducts at a lower voltage, sometimes as low as 0.15V vs 0.6-0.7V for silicon.