Green Ringer-Carrier Signal?

[Noplasticrobots]

On the Green Ringer I built I notice that if I hit the guitar body and play up between the 10th and 12th frets I get a tremendous amount of ringing. VERY bell like.

I'm wondering if there's a way to simulate the guitar being hit so I can consistently have the extremely bell like tones. Would adding a carrier signal (if possible) do this? It seems like the harmonics of the other strings adding to the played note give it this sound. What do you think?

I do know of the mod to give the GR more octave. I've never heard a sound clip of the mod but from what I understand this only saves you the trouble of switching between pickups, and that's not what I'm interested in.

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

Yeah, adding a tone to your guitar signal will give a kind of "bell" tone.
What *IS* a bell tone? A particular dischord made from non-harmonically related frequencies.
For extra fun..... run the added tone thru a tremolo (slow is best) before mixing wiht your guitar.
For possibly TOO MUCH fun.. arrange to vary the frequency of the added tone with a foot pedal.
( a 555 timer based triangle oscillator built into a wah case is ideal).
Anyone lucky enough to have a Frostwave Blue Ringer will find this pretty easy, because there are two audio inputs anyway

[Mark Hammer]

The Green Ringer is an octave-up fuzz that uses a phase-splitter in order to separately rectify the two half-waves before recombining them,  It is no different that a Tone Machne, Fender Blender, Superfuzz, or any of a dozen other similar discrete octave-up units.  ALL of these units will produce sideband products (sum/difference) in a manner similar to ring modulators under certain circumstances, generally when there is a quick change in the pitch of the note.  The Ringer just happens to have the properties of this effect being a little more noticeable (which is what earned it its name).