drew.spriggs
Active member
Long story short, I am working on modifications for something and certain knob positions could leave me in a position where I've got a half-wave rectified signal. Logically, I'd expect it to clip half of the waveform off and reduce the other half by the diodes forward voltage, giving a very distorted signal.
Scoped with with a signal generator, and it's not even close to what I'm getting. Half my waveform is getting squished by the forward voltage of the diode (ie. perfect the top half, squished the bottom half by 0.3v (ish) for a Schottky). 1N4007 does the same thing, only minus half a volt or so.
Out of interest, I plugged this into a couple of patch leads and feeding my guitar through it, I get no practical change to the perceived sound of the guitar.
What gives?
Scoped with with a signal generator, and it's not even close to what I'm getting. Half my waveform is getting squished by the forward voltage of the diode (ie. perfect the top half, squished the bottom half by 0.3v (ish) for a Schottky). 1N4007 does the same thing, only minus half a volt or so.
Out of interest, I plugged this into a couple of patch leads and feeding my guitar through it, I get no practical change to the perceived sound of the guitar.
What gives?