Understanding the OD entrance

[Darkbluemurder]

Hi again Tommy,

Electrical signals don't just choose the path with the least resistance and ignore others. They flow through any available path, and the resistance determines how much can get through.

This might be a bit philosophical (yuck!) for a guitar amp forum, but the idea helped me when I was learning. If you think of the signal as water flowing in a river- when there is a fork in the river, the continues flowing through both paths.

Andy

I used to compare the situation to skiers who can choose to go on either an easy slope or a difficult one. While the majority will choose the easy slope there always be a few going the difficult route. Same with electrons. This is why the total resistance of parallel is always lower than the smallest single resistance.