[sdiy] CMOS CD4046 ring mod??

Tom May tom at tommay.net
Thu Dec 27 20:08:57 CET 2001


I remember seeing a copy of Craig Anderton's Electronic Projects for
Musicians in about 1981 which had a ring mod using a 4046, after
someone tipped Craig off to the built-in multiplier.

Tom.

media at mail1.nai.net writes:

> I keep reading descriptions of the Type II phase discriminator as a
> "balanced mixer" or "four-quadrant multiplier" -- descriptions that are
> also used to describe a ring modulator.  So has anyone ever built a ring
> mod using a 4046??  Even it it only worked with pulse waves, it might be a
> nice add-on if one were already using a 4046.



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