amz tone clippers article

[TimWaldvogel]

just read this article thats in the link below. i have never had experience with these and might try them on my breakboard this next week if i get a chance.
has anybody here done anything like ANY of those? tell me your experience troubles and concerns about using one in an overdrive and distortion circuit.
i am all about stacking gain pedals and playing with tone. and i am slowly working on my own distortion. i know when using separate amps i like to distort the highs and retain clarity in the lower section. so i think this could be a good fit for what im doing. thank you AMZ for posting this for all of us to play with.
ALL feedback would be appreciated


http://www.muzique.com/lab/tclip.htm

[TimWaldvogel]

Another question would be, if I want to add a resistor in series with the diodes to ground to soften the clipping, would it affect the filters?
It shouldnt right?

[gregwbush]

Interesting article man and thanks for the link...

Not sure how i missed it... i love J.O.'s stuff, read a heap of it.

I wanna jump in and say a series resistor won't affect the response... but i'm wrong more than right i think. I'm waiting for the guru's to reply so i know as well

cheers

[ayayay!]

Personally, I wouldn't ever place clippers after a final tone control.  However, doing this like the first half of the article, then including more "stuff" and another tone control after that... now that could be interesting.  Which is exactly what Jack did in the last two circuits on the page. Just wanted to make that clear. 

Another question would be, if I want to add a resistor in series with the diodes to ground to soften the clipping, would it affect the filters?
It shouldnt right?

I wouldn't think it would but there's no sub for experience. 

[TimWaldvogel]

Why not? If the threshold and frequencies are one tuned enough it could be very nice a musical

[sault]

Diode clipping can sound harsh and buzzy. Tone controls afterwards, especially low-pass, help smooth that out and make them sound more natural.

Resistors in series with diodes raise the clipping threshold and lessen the degree to which they clip. How/if they affect tone controls will depend on how they're wired up. Hard to say without a schematic.

If you like buzzier highs and clearer lows, look at the Tubescreamer, as that's basically what its wired to do.

http://www.geofex.com/article_folders/tstech/tsxtech.htm

[DavenPaget]

Diode clipping can sound harsh and buzzy. Tone controls afterwards, especially low-pass, help smooth that out and make them sound more natural.

Resistors in series with diodes raise the clipping threshold and lessen the degree to which they clip. How/if they affect tone controls will depend on how they're wired up. Hard to say without a schematic.

If you like buzzier highs and clearer lows, look at the Tubescreamer, as that's basically what its wired to do.

http://www.geofex.com/article_folders/tstech/tsxtech.htm

A pot ( as a rheostat ) from signal to diode works well as a 'drive' setting .

[petemoore]

  AMZ has the diagrams and details about 5k 'diode pot'...IIRC, nice feature, similar to a change of clipping diode or diodes.

[TimWaldvogel]

I was planning on putting it after gain stage my soft clipping stage and using the recovery stage to smooth off any ridiculous buzzy and frequencies in the top end.