Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!sgi!daveh@xtenk.asd.sgi.com From: daveh@xtenk.asd.sgi.com (David Higgen) Newsgroups: comp.music Subject: Re: Guitar Sounds (Guitarists read this...) Message-ID: <109722@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 11 Jun 91 22:37:44 GMT References: <1991Jun4.104901.1@dev0d.mdcbbs.com> <1991Jun10.091019.23198@uservx.afwl.af.mil> Sender: guest@sgi.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 26 In article <1991Jun10.091019.23198@uservx.afwl.af.mil>, galetti@uservx.afwl.af.mil writes: > >> > >> The intonation of a standard > >> keyboard is tempered, and is quite different than on a guitar. > > > > Not so. Think about it. The frets on a guitar are straight, remember: > > ignoring such complications as string tension & end-effects (and assuming the > > fret spacing is correct), the guitar *is* an equal-temprement instrument. > > Maybe so, but just try it! I'm telling you, it makes a world of difference! Oh sure, I wasn't arguing the aural effect point. I'm sure a chord played though any distorion device will sound much sweeter if it's in just rather than equal temprement. I'm just picking the technical tuning nit that you are not thereby emulating a guitar! Interesting question is, how *does* a guitar, given that it's essentially an equal temprement instrument, get to sound good through certain types of distortion processing? (Comparing it with a keyboard patch which doesn't, that is?) Different harmonic content of the original signals? I suppose if we fully understood this, we'd finally *really* be able to replace tubes... 8-) Dave Higgen (daveh@xtenk.asd.sgi.com)