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Default Attenuate highest highs?

On 19/02/2020 6:41 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:


**Those "tinkling noises" you hear are somewhere around 3kHz.


**Should read: "....somewhere around 3 ~ 5kHz."

Very few instruments possess fundamentals that reach 5kHz. A very tiny
number posses harmonics of significant levels that exceed 10kHz.

Turn the volume down and see if the sound is still annoying. I suspect
you are clipping your amplifier. Clipping can generate large amounts of
high frequency harmonic content. And, just to shut down any myths you
may have heard: Valve amplifiers WILL clip and WILL generate excessive
high frequency harmonics if over-driven.


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