Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

[Chistopher]

Does anyone know what this does? It's on Gibson's High Performance DIP switch (which also allows you to switch between tuned splits and normal splits and turn your treble bleeds on and off) and it's supposed to do this:

DIP switch 5 is a further option for recording. “Transients” = A sudden, loud spike from the initial attack phase of sound, pick attack or “noise” for example. Result = Turning switch 5 on suppresses harsh transient noise or spikes which A/D convertors can sometimes pass when recording directly into the high impedance input of a DAW interface or digital mixer. It is virtually transparent when turned on so, bottom line, if you use any digital equipment, flip it on.

It's completely passive and if it's as transparent as they say it is it seems like it might be worth putting on all my guitars (If, it is in fact all they say it is). Does anyone know a DIY way to replicate this effect?

 

[beaubrummels]

Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

Can we see the circuit it's wired to? Suppressing transients sounds like just a compressor/limiter. Don't know how it would be done lightweight and passive. I'd like to see the whole circuit.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

I can't actually find any diagrams for the circuit, but if anyone here has a HP-II (I think it's also on the HP from last year) it would be nice if you could show some pictures.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

Suppressing transients sounds like just a compressor/limiter.

Or a low-pass filter. But honestly I don’t see how it’s a guitar’s job to solve a problem caused by downstream equipment. I’d rather have something outboard so I didn’t have to build a fix into every guitar I own.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

It sounds like a limiter to me. I don't know how you do that passively, though, or why you'd want that on a guitar. I was unaware that this is a big issue that couldn't be solved otherwise in a recording environment.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

Here’s what Gibson says about it:

http://www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Gear-Tech/en-us/Tame-Your-Terrible-Transients.aspx

 

[Aceman]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

Typical Gibson failed innovation BS

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

LOL... does anybody know what transients are composed of?

Sinusoids.

And filters affect transients in the time domain.

 

[Jeff_H]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

Just buy a compressor. Oh, and around these parts transients are normally made up of homeless people.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

After reading that, I wonder how many revisions they had to do of that description, because it is trying to sell you something that doesn't make any sense. It is some kind of passive compressor/limiter circuit. OK.
Anyone know what the other DIP switches do?

 

[Chistopher]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

Anyone know what the other DIP switches do?

Two of them allow you to add treble bleeds to the neck and/or bridge volume, and the other two allow you to add capacitors to the coil splits for Gibson's "tuned splits"

 

[AlexR]

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I myself couldn't think of anything worse for the playing I do. I am actually trying to get all the transient I possibly can.......its an integral part of a dynamic playing style.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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I’ll give Gibson points for trying. I think the switching for the capacitors is a neat idea. I don’t know what to think about the transient suppression; I’d have to try it to form an opinion. But they’re trying, and they’re including some things that I think are going to be useful to some players.

 

[Discharged]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

That's a solution for a non-existing problem.

/Peter

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

Better than a problem for a non-existing solution.

 

[BloodRose]

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Oh, and around these parts transients are normally made up of homeless people.

Ditto!!


Christopher, Best bet would be a compressor as this system is not just an add in like a push pull pot. Its integrated into their whole wiring system

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

I think first they need to put some hi-fi pickups in their guitars so you can hear the transient suppression do something.

 

[LLL]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

Gibson's High Performance Transient Suppresion =

 

[LLL]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

Furthermore, any loud spikes are fixed in the studio with an ingenious device known as a "compressor"... and you can even adjust the attack (when it clamps down).

Gibson... pfft.

 

[some_dude]

Re: Gibson High Performance Transient Suppresion?

Furthermore, any loud spikes are fixed in the studio with an ingenious device known as a "compressor"... and you can even adjust the attack (when it clamps down).

Gibson... pfft.

Or, you could turn down the input gain on your digital interface so that you're not clipping the thing in the first place.