Signal Generator Idea

[trendyironicname]

My jig thread got me to thinking about something else on the back burner.  I wrote a few lines of code that would play back various wav files and stuff depending on what key you press on the keyboard.  I use an old laptop to run an oscope program.  I think it would be neat to make a box that you could run in between the headphone out of a computer and the input of your effect that would make your signal a little more in line with what a guitar by itself would give it.

We could then load the program with a strum loop, a lead loop, a "chug" loop and all kinds of other guitar wavs that we might want to test with a pedal and have a little closer to the "go pick up a guitar and try not to burn it with the soldering iron" authenticity without the guitar.  I can try to include any features that you guys would think that would make this more useful as well.

I'm incoherent from bronchitis so I can't adequately figure out what the "conditioner" should be but if yall help me come up with that, I think we could have a neat addition to our test bench.
I'm pretty sure there's a ton of functionality we could put in this and might be a fun diversion from strictly guitar circuits(although i guess this is every bit a one).

If this is stupid, blame the drugs.

[jefe]

Check out this pickup simulator that studiostud built:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=36392.msg749058#msg749058

edit: I think it's based on this: http://www.muzique.com/lab/pickups.htm

A few weeks ago, I had no idea what I could possibly use a pickup simulator for, or what it does, etc... now I think I need one. Isn't it funny how that works? lol..

[ashcat_lt]

Is there any good reason you couldn't just use a pickup for this?  I guess it's bigger than a transformer of similar inductance, but...

In fact, aside from noise, there's no reason you couldn't run your sample through a fully assembled guitar.  Jack sleeve in, jack tip out. 

It's worth pointing out, though, that a sample recorded from a guitar will already have the signature of those pickups connected to whatever you recorded through.  Whatever happens when the pickup sim hits your test circuit will be overlaid atop that.