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Article #2988Re: VCAs wanted.
From: Chris Christensen
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:44
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:44
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In article <578F02gn10.z01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com writes: >Does anyone know who makes good quality VCAs (voltage controled amps). >I'd like to do a few things with and equalizer. > >Basically I plan to take an off-the-shelf 16 band equalizer with seperate >adjustments for frequency for left and right and make a daughter board to >convert it into a vocorder. In this case where the absolute sonic purity isn't at stake...:-) I would suggest the PMI SSM-2122. It has two pretty good VCA's in a 16 pin package. You will have to take into account the law of operation for the control of the VCA's. Also take a look at the National semi LMC835. It is a digitally controlled equalizer. It is a "dual 7 band" but the sections can be cascaded for 14 bands. The only draw back is that the part is a digital step attenuator. It steps in 1 dB increments. If you make a large change in the setting you will get zipper noise. This usually isn't a problem unless you do it with no signal to mask the zips. -- Chris Christensen The opinions I express are my own, chrisc@gold.gvg.tek.com and sometimes they are wrong! 916-478-3419 FAX 916-478-3887 After all, I AM only human.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!gvgpsa!gold.gvg.tek.com!chrisc From: chrisc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Chris Christensen) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.audio,rec.audio.pro Subject: Re: VCAs wanted. Message-ID: <4307@gold.gvg.tek.com> Date: 16 Apr 92 22:44:02 GMT References: <APOLIVKA.92Apr16122611@x102a.harris-atd.com> <578F02gn10.z01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Followup-To: sci.electronics Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA Lines: 27