SOLID STATE AMP IMPEDANCE QUESTION

[KeepItSimpleStupid]

Add some protection diodes on the input in case he does it again.

The amps were borrowed from a friend of mine.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Add some protection diodes on the input in case he does it again.

As it's a valve amp (presumably?) there's not much it could damage anyway - unless of course it's only a 'pretend' valve amp and is mostly solid-state with a few valves. But even then, it shouldn't be too catastrophic.

 

[unclejed613]

Are you hinting that I should sell my stash of germanium transistors?

They can be quite valuable these days.

For old electric geetar players.

some of the best sounding effects pedals used germanium transistors... the "Crybaby Wah" pedal and the original "Fuzzface" fuzzbox used germanium transistors.

 

[unclejed613]

Perhaps you just like mellow cello music, but the rest of the world has more varied tastes

cello music.... funny you should mention it...

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I've listened to that before, it's a great song, but i prefer this version:

 

[rjenkinsgb]

cello music.... funny you should mention it...

I almost posted that when I read the previous comment, it was the first thing that came to mind!

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I almost posted that when I read the previous comment, it was the first thing that came to mind!

I only used cello as it rhymed with mellow

 

[audioguru]

Yeah, I don't like the shrieking of the cellos being destroyed and I don't like the hillbillies singing their Country music.
What was nice is that both songs had no fuzz and no overdriven electronics.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Yeah, I don't like the shrieking of the cellos being destroyed and I don't like the hillbillies singing their Country music.
What was nice is that both songs had no fuzz and no overdriven electronics.

Perhaps you should try the original AC/DC version?

 

[audioguru]

AC/DC never played with sinewaves, instead their fuzz and overdrive produced squarewaves.

 

[rjenkinsgb]

AC/DC never played with sinewaves,

Neither do you get sinewaves from bowed instruments - the tone is a series of harmonics, resulting in a very complex waveform!

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

AC/DC never played with sinewaves, instead their fuzz and overdrive produced squarewaves.

Which is the entire point, and a great band!.

 

[gophert]

Which is the entire point, and a great band!.

back when I was broke, the only bands that sounded good through my $69.00 car stereo were the bands that played with as much distortion as my $69.00 car stereo. I'll put AC/DC in the "were a good band based on my current taste" category. Kind of like, "Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer was a good beer based on my current taste (and financial situation) in the 1970s". Since then, I've realized i can afford to enjoy myself so I don't drink PBR and I don't listen to AC/DC.

 

[audioguru]

A bowed instrument plays a waveform something like a sawtooth with all harmonics that reduce in amplitude at higher frequencies, and a flute plays something like a sinewave.
I think the only instruments that play a fuzzy overdriven waveform are an electric guitar and an electromagnet buzzer.
An acoustic guitar sounds good.

 

[gophert]

A saxophone (Reed) must look pretty square.

 

[rjenkinsgb]

I think the only instruments that play a fuzzy overdriven waveform are an electric guitar and an electromagnet buzzer.

A conventional electric guitar pickup produces "clean" audio waveforms.

The same pickups are sometimes used in electro-acoustic guitars & piezo pickups as more often used in electro-acoustic guitars are sometimes used in electric guitars.

Any overdrive is an external processing effect, which can be equally used with electric guitars or electro-acoustics (or any acoustic guitar with an add-on pickup).

There is no fundamental difference in the audio signal produced from either type - it's mostly conventions and playing styles that divide the two.

Examples - go to about 0:50 in this one:

And the beginning of this one:

 

[audioguru]

In the first video, when the acoustic guitar is playing without the later horrible distortion, I hear a lot of hiss (fuzz?) added to each pluck.