clintrubber
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I saw this, interesting trick from another (or the same ?) CJ.
It's the last post:
http://recpit.prosoundweb.com/viewtopic.php?t=4348
I figure we could get the very same effect also by putting DC-current through a winding but using magnets was new for me.
I thought using DC was recently already suggested by I forgot who. But don't know if anyone has already hands-on experiences.
And with the recent thread in mind about putting ungapped TXs to work where gapped ones are required, one could think of an internal coarse compensating-current setting and a front-panel fine control.
Finally, using a magnet could probably make up for a great stage act :green: Guitar-player attacking his Twin Reverb with a big magnet and pulled off-stage by cops...
Bye,
Peter
It's the last post:
http://recpit.prosoundweb.com/viewtopic.php?t=4348
Another trick for transformer hackers: I did this recently as I've made a passive transformer box for bass (600/600/600 xfmr, electric bass or whatever into the first two coils in series, third coil to balanced out). It actually eats a lot of bass, strangely enough! The resulting bass tone is all mids but sits really well in a mix. Well, the other day I tried putting a tiny samarium cobalt magnet on the transformer to saturate the core magnetically. This sounds GREAT on bass. It adds lots of even-order distortion, and the xfmr overloads way more easily, but the real gain comes from when you match the polarity to your bass- there'll be one polarity that's blatantly sweeter than the other, because a bass waveform isn't symmetrical. I'm using a P-bass copy here.
So, mess around with really cheap transformers, but don't forget to also mess around with magnets on them! The tone shaping possibilities are very cool for some things, and it's a kind of effect you CANNOT get with just EQ, because it's modifying the transfer function radically, not just altering the frequency response.
Chris Johnson
I figure we could get the very same effect also by putting DC-current through a winding but using magnets was new for me.
I thought using DC was recently already suggested by I forgot who. But don't know if anyone has already hands-on experiences.
And with the recent thread in mind about putting ungapped TXs to work where gapped ones are required, one could think of an internal coarse compensating-current setting and a front-panel fine control.
Finally, using a magnet could probably make up for a great stage act :green: Guitar-player attacking his Twin Reverb with a big magnet and pulled off-stage by cops...
Bye,
Peter