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Category: Chorus

Noise Reduction with Companders

Posted on January 4, 2016January 18, 2016

What’s a “compander”? It’s a simple way to make your circuit quieter! So how does it work? Let’s say we’ve got a fairly noisy effect, like a BBD. The basic idea is that you make quiet signals louder before you put them through the effect, and then you make them quiet again after the effect, […]

Posted in BBDs+Delays, Chorus, Flanger, Projects, Stompbox stuff   15 Comments on Noise Reduction with Companders

Investigations into what a BBD Chorus unit *really* does

Posted on June 13, 2015October 31, 2018

I’ve been curious about Chorus for a while, since I’ve been working on and off with chorus design myself. There were a few things I didn’t understand, like what the relationshp is between the modulation LFO’s waveshape and the frequency modulation of signals going through the chorus. You’d think that if you use a sinewave […]

Posted in BBDs+Delays, Chorus, Flanger, Stompbox stuff, Synth DIY   17 Comments on Investigations into what a BBD Chorus unit *really* does

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