What voltage and frequency make the most sense for guitar?

thomasbe86

thomasbe86

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What voltage and frequency make the most sense for guitar?

I always see people using something like 440 Hz or 1 kHz, and around 200 mV peak for loud single coils or light humbuckers. I’m curious what you consider “realistic” when you run clipping sims.

I’m working on an interactive tool to show how a circuit actually clips in the time domain. Right now I’m running about 2 ms of pseudo steady state transient with a 1 kHz sine at Ain = 200mV, but I’m not sure if that’s the most relevant approach.

How do you usually set up your transient tests?
Any preferred frequency, input level, or sim length to get a good view of clipping?

looks like this for now
 
I think to simulate an approximation for guitar you would need to be able to analyze a complex signal, ie at least a major triad with inherent harmonics, as produced by the resonant peaks and EQ curves of different pickups, particularly modern single coils vs PAF humbuckers. AKA good luck
 
falco_femoralis said:
I think to simulate an approximation for guitar you would need to be able to analyze a complex signal, ie at least a major triad with inherent harmonics, as produced by the resonant peaks and EQ curves of different pickups, particularly modern single coils vs PAF humbuckers. AKA good luck
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Hehe, what I meant is a sine wave, one frequency only. What do you run transient analysis?
 
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