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Friday, March 07, 2008

Does Your Synth Have Whiskers?

"As I was working on my [Hammond] M-2 I had a good view of the tone wheel generator in bright lighting. I thought that the tone wheel generator chassis was dusty but instead it was covered in whiskers. Zinc whiskers are crystalline structures that grow in the shape of a thin hairs emerging outward from a zinc surface. Every metal surface of the tone wheel generator is covered."
More info including why here.
Posted by matrix at 3/07/2008 12:04:00 PM
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2 comments:

  1. Zamise3/7/08, 5:44 PM

    Weird! I've never heard of this phenomena before.

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  2. Doktor Future3/7/08, 9:35 PM

    How does one model this zinc fuzz in a VA?

    Will the next Native Instruments Hammond sim use SSE5 instruction sets and custom microcode to get this zinc whisker sound down?

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