Re: Calculating harmonics of a vibrating guitar string

RichL expounded in
news:NLKdnW9wntQLAD7TnZ2dnUVZ_hydnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

I put together a downloadable spreadsheet that calculates
the amplitudes of guitar-string harmonics:

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzex6vrt/sitebuildercontent/sitebu
ilderfiles/harmonics.xls

That would have been useful to me last year when I was trying
to simulate a guitar input signal in LTspice. At the time I
created a simulated generator of several harmonics, at various
multiples and strengths but I got rather mediocre results (it
is difficult to engineer even a clean guitar sound).

I have since learned that LTspice can _import_ wav files, in
addition to writing them out. I haven't tried it yet, but I
definitely plan to when I get back to designing effects (I'm
too busy with my ss guitar amp at the moment).

With wav in, and wav out, you can simulate a guitar effect and
hear (after the simulation completes) what it would sound
like, without warming the soldering iron.

LTspice is such a great tool for electronics simulations and
it's free. I've also been able to run it under Linux (using
WINE) with very little fuss.

Snark.
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