28 Apr
2015
28 Apr
'15
1:57 a.m.
On April 27, 2015 07:59:36 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 23:13:12 -0400, Tim E. Real
wrote:
>To reduce latency I even tried putting the guitar through a standard
>time-domain pitch shifter (up one octave) and then into the detector.
>Not bad, so so.
Since "dead" strings aren't an option
for me, this is something I'll
test for monophonic converters, because they also suffer from
accuracy and latency. I never tested this. Nice idea.
The purpose there was to shift the guitar up one octave before
it goes into the polyphonic detector, so that I could reduce
the number of FFT bins required and therefore reduce latency.
It worked better, kind of OK, but if you know standard
time-domain SOLA pitch shifters, they leave artifacts in the sound,
so it's not an ideal solution.
A nice frequency-domain pitch shifter would be better - very little
artifacts in the sound - but these shifters have large latency,
so that cancels the purpose of this because time-domain
SOLA shifters have very little latency, but just the artifacts.
JFTR, if I'm short of money, I boil
"dead" guitar strings in water. As
long as they only suffered from skin fat and particles of skin and they
aren't worn out or suffer from oxidation, this refreshes the strings
without a side effect.
Aw jeez, sad situation, buy a new set of strings, eh :-(
If you lived in my city I'd give you a pack!
Yeah I tried boiling them a few times long ago.
All that really seemed to do was bring out the rust even more!
I've always believed it's not so much the dirt or oxidation on the
string which is the problem:
That simply makes it appear like a slightly thicker string and thus
the tuning changes slightly. Most of the dirt can be removed.
The real problem is the dozens of small 'cuts' along the string length
that are accumulated over time from bending, or just playing, against
metal frets. This produces horrible overtones. The single fundamental
frequency of a given fret position begins to 'split' into two or more
fundamental frequencies. Ugly.
Just a side 'note': A tip for players out there:
There is a tendency to think that one should adjust the pickup as close
as possible to the strings without touching them, for maximum output.
Seems reasonable right?
But no, don't do that. Because the strings then sit in a less linear
portion of the magnetic field - on the 'down swing' they are attracted
much more to the pickup magnet than on the 'up swing'.
The result is mechanical nonlinear string motion, resulting in...
split fundamental frequencies.
The effect is striking. You can hear it without even plugging the guitar in.
As you adjust the pickup ever higher, and pluck the strings, you can
hear the horrible overtones from the frequency splitting.
It's really gross sounding. So be careful.
Enjoy your day :-)
T.