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- From: bud@megatek.com (Wayne Francis)
- Subject: Re: String Guages [what to use?]
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.160644.299@megatek.com>
- Sender: bud@megatek.com (Wayne Francis)
- Reply-To: bud@megatek.com
- Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
- References: <BxyA79.Ez7@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <19NOV199208060451@rosie.uh.edu> <1992Nov20.170846.18209@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:06:44 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Nov20.170846.18209@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> bss2p@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Brent S. Stone) writes:
- >Response to stevenra@feserve.cc.purdue.edu
- >>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....
- >>
- >
- >Yes, the harmonics are (usually) reduced with the larger strings,
- >but the key word is mass.
- >
- >Increase cross sectional area = increasing mass/length =>
- >increasing output voltage => increasing distortion.
- >And that increase depends on what's between the string and the
- >speaker. Piece of pie.
- >
- >BS
- >
- >
- >ps. I'll take a lot more than an E+M book to predict a 10%
- >increase in distortion. B)
-
- Excuse me gentlemen but isn,t distortion the result of electronicly
- overdriving an amplifier stage?
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