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<BODY><P>that's beautifull schematic :)</P>
<P>I especially like those comic-like comments and the "bass drum" thing in the middle.</P>
<P>You're a talented artist :)</P>
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<P>Maybe I get it wrong, but you include the noise on purpose here, so what's the deal?</P>
<P>If you hear hiss when noise level is turned down to 0, it may be some leaking from noise circuit to output amplifier, or (a wild guess) some part of the circuitry has spurious</P>
<P>oscillations at HF causing audible distortion/noise when downconverted on VCA nonlinearities.</P>
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<P>Roman<BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; font-decoration: none">---- Wiadomo¶æ Oryginalna ----<BR><B>Od:</B> Jörg Schmitz <JSCHMITZ@SCHMITZBIRD.DE><BR><B>Do:</B> <A style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; TEXT-DECORATION: none" target=_blank href="mailto:synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.nl">synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.nl</A><BR><B>Data:</B> Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:06:33 +0200<BR><B>Temat:</B> [sdiy] DIY TR909 : noise !<BR></FONT><BR></SPAN>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all !</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>at last I have managed to built my own TR909 - bass drum pcb. It works prettty well (see <A href="http://www.analog-synth.de/synths/tr909/tr909.htm">http://www.analog-synth.de/synths/tr909/tr909.htm</A> for details), but I found one problem :</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the output is a bit noisy. You can hear a little hissing noise, which seems to correspond to the envelope and therefore VCA activity of the VCA between the output amplifier and distortion diodes (controlled by "decay").</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What would you suggest to eliminate that (not very loud) noise ? (Of course, this is not the noise of the noise generator, bleeding through somehow, this is tested...)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Another opamp for the output-amplifier ? Something better than the TL072 ? Something better than the BC549 for the VCA's ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>cheers, Joerg</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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