Re: Limiters with FETs
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:06 pm
Yup a limiter for a guitar is an "effect" so by definition does not need or even want to be transparent. Many a bass guitar limiter used the basic JFET shunt with simple rectifier to feed the gate.
I don't even try to design effects any more (last studio effect was in the late '70s early '80s. I do have a friend with a guitar pedal company, but I'm still waiting for him to listen to my GFCI stinger cap ground (for noise floor). Last I checked he was slammed with NAMM show orders, maybe he has caught up by now. I need to ping him about that.
My couple decades of bench work on dynamics processing was predominantly focussed on transparent compression/expansion for use in noise reductions. This transparent companding does not automatically mean the compression is transparent. I ended up with pre/de-emphasis in the audio path, pre/de-emphasis in the side chain, a hard (overall diode clipper across the feedback path so the compressor never lost feedback, etc.. lots of moving parts, that only had to sound good together, not by themselves.
Sorry, I was confusing this discussion with the location recording thread.
never mind...
JR
I don't even try to design effects any more (last studio effect was in the late '70s early '80s. I do have a friend with a guitar pedal company, but I'm still waiting for him to listen to my GFCI stinger cap ground (for noise floor). Last I checked he was slammed with NAMM show orders, maybe he has caught up by now. I need to ping him about that.
My couple decades of bench work on dynamics processing was predominantly focussed on transparent compression/expansion for use in noise reductions. This transparent companding does not automatically mean the compression is transparent. I ended up with pre/de-emphasis in the audio path, pre/de-emphasis in the side chain, a hard (overall diode clipper across the feedback path so the compressor never lost feedback, etc.. lots of moving parts, that only had to sound good together, not by themselves.
Sorry, I was confusing this discussion with the location recording thread.
never mind...
JR