12 Sep
2008
12 Sep
'08
1:49 a.m.
Back on Thursday 11 September 2008, Fons Adriaensen was like:
The magnitude can be positive or negative. It really doesn't matter which way
you go, you get a similar effect. But each successive odd harmonic needs to
be in the opposite direction in order for them to build upon one another.
Otherwise they begin to cancel each other out.
For instance you can have the first, fifth, and ninth be positive while the
third and seventh are negative. Or vice versa. But I never use anything past
the third harmonic. Anything above the third sounds way to harsh and gritty
to me.
If you open the jack-rack file I included, you can take a look at the
harmonics settings I always use. I push the first harmonic all the way
negative and the third at 75% positive. I don't like to push the third any
higher than that or it starts sounding abrasive.
-Reuben
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:36:26PM -0500, Reuben
Martin wrote:
Well, I mean not the type of distortion people commonly think of such as
guitar distortion modeled after an overdriven tube amp.
Exciter has nothing to do with dynamics.
True.
And not really anything to do with
distortion so much as harmonics.
Adding harmonics is distortion. It may not sound as
such if the harmonics you add were already present
but it still is distortion. You use a harmonics generator, cut the
fundamental, and add in odd
ordered harmonics, with each successice odd harmonic going in opposite
directions.
What's the point of the 'opposite directions' (whatever
it means) ?