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Article #1420Re: Audio Spectrum Analyzer
From: Michael Seningen
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1989 15:48
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1989 15:48
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use a super-hetrodyne principle
source ----X-----[fixed notch filter]---A/D---C64
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[ramp voltager generator]-----------|
the idea is that the fixed notch filter can be much more
accurate than a sweeping filter.
multiply the source out to a higher freq, filter it out,
then shift the source by a small ammount more (ie up the freq of VCO output.
You can use an oscope with the ramp voltage as x and
notch filter output as Y -- this will give you a description of your input waveform.
I learned this in a Signals course which covered fourier and laplace transforms. A good book with some practical circuits might have this circuit and would also give the math background as well.
Mike (dusting off the cobwebs) Seningen
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!seningen From: seningen@oakhill.UUCP (Michael Seningen) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Audio Spectrum Analyzer Keywords: make one,homebrew,spectrum analyzer Message-ID: <2378@serval.oakhill.UUCP> Date: 7 Sep 89 15:48:40 GMT References: <3906@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: seningen@serval.UUCP (Michael Seningen) Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas Lines: 24