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- Subject: Re: String Guages [what to use?]
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 08:06 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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- References: <1992Nov13.165435.8933@col.hp.com> <K69SBKW2@cc.swarthmore.edu> <1992Nov18.152350.223@megatek.com> <BxyA79.Ez7@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In article <BxyA79.Ez7@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, stevenra@feserve.cc.purdue.edu (Alex Stevens) writes...
- >
- > One thing no one has seemed to touch on is how string diameter
- >relates to distortion. Personally, I play hard rock, and while I like
- >screaming distortion, I only use 9's. Anyway, to make it short:
- >
- > When you move from 9's to 10's you are increasing the diameter
- >by 10%. Therefore you increase tone/distortion by 10% also!
- >Of course there is always a gain knob....
-
- Well actually your increasing the area by (.10^2 -.09^2)/.10^2 which is
- 19%. Actually I don't have a clue to where you say that distortion increases
- by 10%.
- Now my string theory is a bit fuzzy, but distortion is caused by a number of
- differnet things. In relation to strings, I believe it has to do with
- certain string harmonics being exited. If this is the case, then the opposiite
- would be true because more force would be required to excite those harmonics.
- I've always found that the heavier strings yield less distortion, and a
- brighter and "heavier" tone.
- On the other hand, heavier strings could cause more distortion my exiting
- some lower harmonics, which may be at the lower end of the frequency response
- of the amp and/or speaker which sometimes tend to "distort" the frequency.
- Like I said, I haven't brushed up on string theory lately, so corrections
- are welcome, but flames aren't....
-
- >
- >
- >Alex
- >stevenra@feserve.cc.purdue.edu
- >
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