Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Sound effects
Patent
1994-02-25
1997-06-03
Isen, Forester W.
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
Sound effects
H03G 300
Patent
active
056362846
ABSTRACT:
Solid state emulations of vacuum tube power amplifier are shown for both high-power and low-power applications. The emulations include the screen grid and power supply effect of compression, the variable output impedance for reacting with a speaker load, power tube distortions, the limiting and bias shifting created by the power tube grids, and the bias shifting of the phase splitter. The high-power disclosure includes a current amplifier which may be linear or switching. The low-power disclosure simulates a vacuum tube amplifier with a speaker load in order to drive a master volume without diminishing the classic distorted tone. It has means to simulate the speaker impedance. The solid state emulation includes a gain control means which produce an unclipped region which may be divided into more or less distortion than one percent and two clipped regions having different output impedances or different frequency characteristics.
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