Simulation of the diode limiter in guitar distortion circuits by numerical solution of ordinary differential equations

Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 197-203

  Yeh, David T ^a   Abel, Jonathan ^a   Smith, Julius O ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; DIODES; ITERATIVE METHODS; LOW PASS FILTERS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

BACKWARD EULER; CLIPPING DISTORTION; DIODE LIMITERS; GUITAR DISTORTIONS; LOW-PASS FILTERS; NONLINEAR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RULE ORDERS; STATIC NON-LINEARITY; TRAPEZOIDAL RULES;

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 84872694189     PISSN: 24136700     EISSN: 24136689     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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