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softwareguy · 7th February 2006

Tiny,

Thanks for SCHOOLIN me! Seriously, this is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. So you're saying that as a result of greater hysterisis, earlier in the curve, you're going to hear more even order harmonic distortion which is, as we know, that stuff that we perceive as "sweet" sounding or "euphonic." I'm diggin it! And the fact that the transformer's response on the BH curve is frequency dependant means that the transformer will especially add this distortion in the lower frequencies, which we perceive as adding "warmth" or "grunt" or all those other ridiculous terms that we use.

Let me know if I got this all wrong, but I think I just understood something for the first time!

7th February 2006	#11
softwareguy Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 807 Thread Starter	Tiny, Thanks for SCHOOLIN me! Seriously, this is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. So you're saying that as a result of greater hysterisis, earlier in the curve, you're going to hear more even order harmonic distortion which is, as we know, that stuff that we perceive as "sweet" sounding or "euphonic." I'm diggin it! And the fact that the transformer's response on the BH curve is frequency dependant means that the transformer will especially add this distortion in the lower frequencies, which we perceive as adding "warmth" or "grunt" or all those other ridiculous terms that we use. Let me know if I got this all wrong, but I think I just understood something for the first time!