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DG Whitley


Post  Posted 17 Apr 2018 2:21 pm    
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Anyone ever tried to use an oscilloscope to see the "beats" between two notes? I think it possible to be done, just have not figured out the details yet.
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Georg Sørtun


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Post  Posted 18 Apr 2018 5:06 am    
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Feeding the signal into a scope through a sharp low-pass filter – cutting all above about 25Hz and letting all down to DC through – will reveal beats. Remember that PUs fall off towards DC though, and most buffers and pre-amps do too if for no other reasons that they have input and output capacitors.

What to use a scope for apart from in a lab-experiment, isn't clear to me though. Beats are easy to hear through any decent amp/speaker set-up without low-frequency cut-off built in, but following beats by eye on a scope and/or other visual indicator (frequency counter etc.) isn't all that easy.


Me; I rely on the "weaknesses" (speed/timing of level adjustments) of the BOSS LMB-3 I always have in my sound-chain, to "amplify" beats to make them more audible and easier to correct while playing. Doesn't allow me to ignore beating through any amp.
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