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|    Patrick Turner to All    |
|    Re: LTSpice, guitar amp tone control    |
|    24 Feb 14 21:17:58    |
      From: info@turneraudio.com.au              So, I thought as a curiosity, I'd spend a couple hours in Spice land and see       if those interesting specs Patrick came up with could be achieved. Lets review       them... bass, mid, treble controls. At midpoint on all controls, +6dB at       100Hz, 0 at 400Hz, and +       6dB at 5kHz. Max bass, 10dB at 100Hz, min not too important. Mid, + and - 9dB       at 400Hz, with little effect at 200Hz znd 3.2kHz. Max treble, +15dB at 5kHz,       min not too important. I put a couple added constraints: power=250v, 12AX7s       only, overall more or        less unity gain, insensitive to input impedance or output loading, supports 1v       input level, and no inductors.              What I achieved uses 2 12AX7s and has the following characteristics.       Input Z, > 1meg, and insensitive to input Z.       Output: cathode follower and no effect on response by reasonable load.       Bass: mid, +6dB at 100Hz. Max, +10.5dB at 100Hz. Min, -1dB at 100Hz.       Mid: mid, 0dB at 400Hz, max, +10dB at 400Hz, min, -11dB at 400Hz. Effect of       the mid pot is less than a dB at 200Hz and 3200Hz.       Treb: mid, +6dB at 5kHz. Max, +15dB at 5kHz. Min, +3dB at 5kHz.              The bass and mid are implemented as tuned circuits, using a section of a 12AX7       each as gyrators. I was actually interested in seeing whether that would work       reasonably well; and it does.              Incidentally, setting things up for flat rather than boosted response provides       symmetrical boost/cut for all 3 controls.              The pots for control are all 50k pots, and I allowed for 1k residual       resistance at the pot extremes.              Anyone wanting the Spice file can email me.              -Stephie               Very interesting Stephie.               You can send file you made if it has a schematic and the amplitude responses       which are easiest to correlate in a glance. My email address is        atrick*nospam*@turneraudio.com.au Just leave out the *nospam* and it'll get       here OK.              I should be able to save it in my growing guitar amp files, and open it in       LTspiceIV.               Regards, Patrick Turner.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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