1/19/2008
Copyright
2005 – Tim Hoerning
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Digital Effects
•Effects are used for one of two things:
–to imitate a sound but in a smaller form factor
–To create a new sound not previously realizable without
the effect
•Many effects can be realized in the Analog or the
digital domain
–The sound differences usually arise from “imperfections”
in the analog
implementation
–Many people are used to the imperfections and find them
more pleasing
•Some effects are uniquely digital such as delay
–Sometimes discrete time effects (such as bucket brigade
based delay pedals) are
described as “analog”. This is a bit of
a misnomer since the
signals are sampled. These effects to suffer from distortion on very long delay times