Hi List!<br><br>I have been playing a bit with SoundHack +Chebyshev external, hoping that i could get a nice distorted sound for my guitar. Leaving aside the fact that the parameters are quite difficult to use, i m faced with a few problems. <br>
One issue is that it seems to sound good only when the amplitude of the sound is close to 1, which is obviously not the case for a raw guitar sound. Anything that gets above 1 induces a very harsh burst of noise. I have tried a compressor (the one that comes with the SoundHack bundle), but doesn't seem to be able to behave as a limiter, since the compression ratio cannot go to infinity. Does anybody know of a good sounding compressot that could work as a limiter?<br>
More generally, i m not sure if i m headed in the right direction. What i want to do is something like:<br><br>Guitar adc ---> compressor ---> Chebyshev distortion ---> hip~ 5 to remove DC component ---> dac to amp<br>
<br>I m not sure whether this is the right way of dealing with guitar distortion. I m not sure Chebyshev polynomials is the right waveshaping technique either. I ve found this (<a href="http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/comj.2009.33.2.85">http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/comj.2009.33.2.85</a>), in which several waveshaping techniques are mentioned, I don't know if anybody has any experience with these?<br>
<br>I m not trying to model an amp here, i m only interested in modeling a distortion unit. There is a thread in the archives, but i'd be interested in getting some fresher thoughts upon the subject...<br><br>Pierre<br>
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