Real Ring Modem?

Abby Normal · Joined: Feb 20, 2010 Posts: 66 Location: USA Audio files: 2

Hello - Can anyone shed some light on the Real Ring Modem?

http://www.cgs.synth.net/modules/cgsrmodem.html

How does this differ (sonically speaking) from using just one ring mod? Are there any hidden benefits that I'm not seeing?

bleekza · Joined: May 11, 2009 Posts: 23 Location: Virginia USA

same question

blue hell · Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:53 am Post subject:

It is just some effect you can obtain by using two ring modulators ... it is not that it is a different ring modulator, just two being used.

As the modulators are not ideal I'd expect some distortion and some remaining sum and difference frequencies ... as in shortwave radio like sounds ... could be interesting with some filtering in the modulated signal before demodulating.

But then again I never tried it ...

abelovesfun · Joined: Dec 17, 2012 Posts: 40 Location: Portland, OR

I have one. It definitely sounds different from my MFOS ring modulator. I'm glad I have both. I should do an A/B and record the difference...

Hans Kockelmans · Joined: Apr 01, 2015 Posts: 32 Location: Gronsveld

I have one also. The thing is called 'real' because this is the schematic used in the 50's. It is easy to build using 1:1 transformers and germanium diodes.

Fernando · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 3:13 pm Post subject:

The interesting thing of setting up a ring modulator-demodulator is to insert processors between the two sections,
so at the end of it (at the output of the demod) you don't have the original signal back (as originally designed by radio engineers in XXth century)
but something musically interesting! : )