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Default Audio gen for guitar amps ?

On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 2:15:55 PM UTC-8, Phil Allison wrote:
whit3rd wrote:


3{a}. Square wave output for checking tone circuits and amplifier stability.


Or, maybe a white-noise output?



** Worse than your other mad ideas.


A/B switch, headphones, attenuator; it's not hard to check uncalibrated tone
controls that way. Or, with a math-equipped DSO, it can be quick to measure.

A real square wave has lots of bandwidth, beyond the important, audible, spectrum.