MOTM

Being EE illiterate, why do you put the guitar into a compressor or 
pre-amp first?  What is a compressor?   Can you put the guitar 
directly into the 700?

I know all this has to do with voltage levels (I think).  Is the 
output of a guitar too small or too large to go directly into the 
700?  Your patch sounds like fun, waiting to try it when my 700 gets 
built (soon), and I learn how to input my guitar into the synth.

Thanks
Andy

--- In motm@egroups.com, Thomas Hudson <thudson@t...> wrote:
> 
> Last night I had a blast with the following patch.
> Run a guitar through a preamp or compressor and
> run the output into the CV IN of a 700. The signal
> doesn't have to be up to MOTM levels, line level
> is enough to switch the comparator. 
> 
> .....................
>
> Tomy