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Simple Accurate Bass Tone Control

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A difficult problem in the design of conventional stereo tone controls is obtaining synchronous travel of the potentiometers. Even a slight error in synchrony can cause phase and amplitude differences between the two channels. Moreover, linear potentiometers are often used in such controls, and these give rise to unequal performance by human hearing. Special potentiometers that counter these difficulties are normally hard to obtain in retail shops. A good alternative is a control based on a rotary switch and a discrete potential divider. The problem with this that for good tone control more than six steps are needed, and switches for this are also not readily available. Fortunately, electronic circuits can remove these difficulties.     The analogue selectors used may be driven by mechanical switches, standard logic circuit or a microcontroller. The selectors used in the present circuit are Type SSM2404 versions from Analogue Devices, which switch noiselessly. Each IC contains...

How to Make a Dual Tone Siren Circuit

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This electronic siren gives out a continuously varying high amplitude sound. Since the supply voltage is not critical, it can be used in cars, motor cycles or at home. It can replace the ordinary call bell. - . The circuit consists of two separate free running multivibrator and an oscillator. More innovative circuits HERE. A free running or astable multivibrator is one which has two quasi-stable states and the output of one stag is connected to the input of the other through a coupling capacitor.Since both the states are quasi-stable, the output attained is continuously varying in nature i.e. high, low high low-.  The output is in the form low pulses, the frequency of which depends on the base biasing resistor and the coupling capacitor, When these resistances and condensers for both the stages are of different values, the output ` wave form is rectangular; this is because the time constant of the two quasi-stable states becomes different. If this time constant of the two, states i...

Tone Control Circuit Designed Using LM833

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Using LM833 can be designed a very simple tone control circuit using few external components .For this Lm833 ton control circuit can be used almost any type of operational amplifier if it have high input impedance .The LM833 is a is a dual general purpose operational amplifier designed with particular emphasis on performance in audio systems. Tone Control Circuit Diagram The ton control from this circuit is based on this operational amplifier from National Semiconductor and two RC filters ( low pass and high pass ) .Using the formula presented bellow we can modify the frequency of the tone control circuit - the cut off frequency of RC filters (low pass and high pass )lm833 tone control formula For the tone control circuit presented in this schematic the frequencies are : fL = 32 Hz, fLB = 320 Hz and fH =11 kHz, fHB = 1.1 kHz.