Undertones when playing minor 3rds

The undertones are caused by intermodulation between the frequencies in the two notes. This is normal, part of any amp tone, and increases with any distortion, even just a little bit.

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This is the sentence my brain couldnā€™t scramble together at 4 AM. :wink:

I guess that could be what is happening here. Although I havenā€™t noticed it on other amps (models) before.

Luckily, it is easily solved by a low cut filter :slight_smile:

I am curious though if this happens in the actual Diezel amp as well! And I am also curious about the reply from NeuralDSP!

To me this sounds like it is most certainly a differential tone.

When playing e.g., E4 and C4, their respective frequencies: 329 Hz & 261 Hz and when you subtract these two frequencies, you get 68 Hz - which appears to be the exact differential tone when playing those two notes. This is a very old phenomenon

It is not very frequent that people note it , but it can happen on cleaner amplifiers
My Victory Duchess does it also :slight_smile:

yeah, thatā€™s a natural reaction of certain intervals. I wrote a song using only intervals that create that 3rd dissonant tone