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From: hg@clinet.FI (Janne H{gglund)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: guitar audio signals
Message-ID: <601@clinet.FI>
Date: 21 Feb 88 18:43:09 GMT
References: <502@m10ux.UUCP> <22670@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <8948@ism780c.UUCP> <1053@uop.edu>
Reply-To: hg@clinet.UUCP (Janne H{gglund)
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Keywords: guitar bass amp distortion home stereo

In article <1053@uop.edu> todd@uop.edu (Dr. Nethack) writes:
>.....my friend Tim wasted a good stereo by
>plugging in his guitar, if you use moderation you will most likely
>not have this problem.

  Well, I think he just discovered the 'blow your speakers' -effect... :-)

  But, to be more serious, home stereos that are not so anxious to blow up can
be used creatively. My friend has bought a bass some time ago but does not
yet have an amp. So he practises by plugging it into his tape deck and
pressing "record" and "pause". What is beautiful in this setup is that when
he turns the record level way up past the distortion point it gives a 
beautiful Judas Priest-type almost pure square-wave distortion. It's kinda
weird with a bass, but when you plug in a guitar... WOW!!
  I think the best musical gimmicks are discovered by accident. Me, I almost
blew up my best earphones when I discovered that too-low-impedance earphones
in the phones-jack of my synth give diabolic high-frequency boosting
distortion... %-}

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