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Joined: Fri Jul 20 2007, 06:22PM
Location: South Bend, IN
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It would be cool to have a digital version of the old Texas Instruments SN76477 IC. A lot of the old video games used that chip for sound effects.
I've done some experimenting with time-sliced polyphonics, but wave shaping would have to be done by modulating the IGBT input voltage in sync with the gate drive frequency modulation.
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
Location: Derby, UK
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That's not just electric guitar, it's lightning guitar! Awesome stuff. Take that to band practice...
So what happens if you strike a harmonic or play a really high note? Just wondering if you have some kind of lowpass filter somewhere between the guitar and whatever generates the interrupter pulses to wipe away the higher frequency parts (and help with emc?)
I'm also going to guess you have some kind of one-shot actually switching the coil on, triggered by a something or other connected to the guitar?!
could you give us any hints on how you built it, if not would a system in witch you use a PWM at extremely low dutycycle and have the set carrier frequency at something like 2-4Khz? would this give an adequate effect on a DRSSTC with low(er) distortion?
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Well, I did take it to band practice. :P
My guitar signal processor is based on the work I did for Finn, so I'm still not telling how it works... If you noticed me controlling the size of the discharge with the guitar volume knob in that video, you should have figured it out already.
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I have no idea of what he's using.
I think I'm gong to try this using a low pass filter then feeding that into a comparator setup for pwm. Triangle wave will be low frequency like 500Hz. Then maybe have some way to set the max pulse width. Don't know how great it'll sound.
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I think I'm gong to try this using a low pass filter then feeding that into a comparator setup for pwm. Triangle wave will be low frequency like 500Hz. Then maybe have some way to set the max pulse width. Don't know how great it'll sound.
Audio frequency carrier? that would sound absolutely terrible. If nothing else, at least set the PWM to run at 25khz or more. But, considering you only get so many RF cycles inside of 1 period of 25khz you might be limited to about "4 bit" audio.
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