 12-21-2003, 02:25 PM | #1 |
| Administrator Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 134 | Digital Modeling Amplifiers
Quote: | Since the dawn of the musical-recording age, the preferred method of recording guitars has been to set up microphones in front of amplifiers and capture the sounds produced. This carried the limitations of eliminating the electromagnetic signal bleed from the amplifier, the temperamental nature of analog equipment, and placing the microphone so as to properly reproduce the sounds an audience would hear. Some of the difficulties of this method were addressed during the mid-Seventies in the form of Digital Signal Processing (DSP), which allowed musicians to simulate the acoustic properties of instruments, such as the way sounds bounce off the walls of different-sized rooms or concert halls. Further, certain analog effects such as distortion and delay could be replicated, without the hassle of vacuum tubes and magnetic tape. | Read more... http://physicspost.com/articles.php?articleId=23 |
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