RE: [Harp-L] octave detuning, on purpose

[Buck Worley <boogalloo@xxxxxxx>]

I think it is noteworthy to mention that Leo Fender labeled amps as "Tremolo" when it was actually vibrato which is akin to chorus...or am all wet here?Buck
 

> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:34:35 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] octave detuning, on purpose
> From: robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: slim@xxxxxxxxxx
> CC: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Slim Heilpern <slim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > detuning is not fixed (at least with respect to the way most chorus
> > effects are implemented). I think the following definition from Wikipedia (
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorus_effect#Electronic_effect) is more on
> > the money, at least this is what I would have guessed based on the sound
> > and controls of chorus effects I've used over the last 38 years or so
> > (starting with the original and wonderful Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble):
> >
> 
> Yes exactly. The boss chorus shifts alternately between a tone that is
> slightly high, to one that is slightly low, combined with the input. It is
> moving. Detune is created in a different way.
> 
> "Chorus is a varying pitch shift. The pitch slowly changes between flat and
> sharp. Detune is a constant pitch shift."
> (http://trix.ws/rPkO5)
> 
> "The main difference between the detune effect and the chorus effect is
> that the detune amount does not change: the modulating pitch is specified
> as an offset to the original pitch."
> (http://trix.ws/OzvOS)
> 
> >From the Digitech RP355 manual :
> 
> "A Detuner makes a copy of your incoming signal, takes the copied signal
> slightly out of tune from
> the original, then mixes the two signals together. The result is a doubling
> type of effect as if two
> guitars were playing the same part together."
> 
> "A Chorus adds a short delay to your signal. The delayed signal is
> modulated in and out of tune
> and then mixed back with the original signal to create a thicker sound."
> 
> So they are created in a different manner, one through pitch only, the
> other through moving time delay only.
> 
> Robert Hale
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