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At 06:13 PM 5/7/97 -0000, you wrote: >> >>A common use is hexaphonic distortion. If you distort each string >>individually and then mix it together, you don't get the inter-modulation >>distortion that you get with a normal guitar plugged into a fuzz box. >This >>basically means that you can play distortion chords without the extreme >>muddiness you usually get. >> >I'd always been fascinated by this idea, but I thought you needed a >sepearate speaker for each string. Can you just distort each string >seperately and then combine it back into one speaker? > >Travis Hartnett sure. Its the distortion itself that causes the muddiness. When you have two notes together going into a distortion of some kind, the non-linearities cause a situation where harmonics of each note modulate each other and produce all sorts of other frequencies. These frequencies are generally not harmonically related to the others, resulting in a muddy mess. Unless the speaker is the thing distorting, it has nothing to do with it. If you've ever used pitch shifiting after a distortion effect, you've basically heard the difference. The harmonies created by the pitch-shifting come through just fine, even though each note is a distorted signal. kim _______________________________________________________ Kim Flint 408-752-9284 VLSI Systems Engineering kflint@chromatic.com Chromatic Research