What is the difference between digital and analog electronics?
toc There are quite a number of differences between digital and analog electronics, which make analog better for some applications and digital better for others. First, a little information on bass signals. When you pluck the string on your bass, it vibrates back and forth. The vibration of the string causes sounds waves to be transmitted through the air at the same pitch as the string, and that’s what your ears detect as sound. The idea of amplication is to get an electronic representation of the string’s vibration, and then make the amp’s speaker vibrate in exactly the same pattern, thus creating the same sound as the string (only much louder 🙂 The job of the pickup is to “read” the position of the string at any moment in time, and translate that into a voltage. When the string is not moving, the voltage is zero and there’s no sound. The faster the string is moving, the higher the voltage is, and moving in one direction induces a positive voltage and the other direction, negative. T
toc There are quite a number of differences between digital and analog electronics, which make analog better for some applications and digital better for others. First, a little information on bass signals. When you pluck the string on your bass, it vibrates back and forth. The vibration of the string causes sounds waves to be transmitted through the air at the same pitch as the string, and that’s what your ears detect as sound. The idea of amplication is to get an electronic representation of the string’s vibration, and then make the amp’s speaker vibrate in exactly the same pattern, thus creating the same sound as the string (only much louder 🙂 The job of the pickup is to “read” the position of the string at any moment in time, and translate that into a voltage. When the string is not moving, the voltage is zero and there’s no sound. The faster the string is moving, the higher the voltage is, and moving in one direction induces a positive voltage and the other direction, negative. T
