Enhanced wave digital triode model for real-time tube amplifier emulation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 738-746

  Pakarinen, J ^a   Karjalainen, M ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Tube emulation; Virtual analog modeling; Wave digital filters

Indexed keywords

ANALOG MODELING; BIAS VARIATION; DIGITAL MODEL; DYNAMIC RANGE; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT; INTEGRAL PART; LINEAR FILTERS; NEW MODEL; NON-LINEARITY; PHYSICAL MODEL; REACTIVE LOADS; REAL TIME DIGITAL SIMULATION; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SIGNAL MODELS; SIGNAL PATHS; SIGNAL PROPAGATION; TRIODE MODEL; VACUUM TUBE; VACUUM-TUBE AMPLIFIERS; WAVE DIGITAL FILTERS; WAVE DIGITAL SIMULATION;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); AUDIO EQUIPMENT; AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; ELECTRON TUBES; EQUALIZERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VACUUM;

DIGITAL FILTERS;

EID: 77951196311     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2033306     Document Type: Article

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