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Articles and Schematics edit / delete

A variety of interesting guitar pedal designs -- many based on FET-ified versions of guitar amps. The EQ pedal in particular looks interesting.

to amp audio compression distortion effects electronics eq guitar ... on 04 September 2016

Tonewheel Tubeworks edit / delete

German Hammond technician. This has some interesting mods for the T-200 series, which are effectively transistorised versions of the L-100 -- e.g. adding a valve distortion unit based on Russian miniature valves. I also like his tonewheel level calibration software...

to audio distortion electronics hammond organ valve ... on 27 August 2016

Spectrally Challenged - distortion spectra of audio power chips edit / delete

"This very interesting article by Ben Duncan appeared in the October 1993 issue of Electronics World + Wireless World magazine in the UK. In it, the author tests ten popular power amplifier chips and explains, amongst other things, how the distortion spectra are important in terms of sound quality." The LM386 is -- as expected -- terrible.

to amplifier audio distortion electronics harmonics ... on 31 March 2016

CordellAudio.com - Papers edit / delete

Some interesting publications on analysing audio equipment (on a minimal budget).

to amplifier audio distortion electronics ... on 11 July 2013