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THD

A measure of harmonic content relative to the fundamental in a controlled test.

What does it mean?

THD+N includes noise as well. Neither directly measures a preset's musical quality. A complex guitar spectrum does not immediately provide a valid distortion percentage.

ExampleUse a controlled sine test to distinguish harmonics in clean and nonlinear outputs.

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