[sdiy] Equiv of LM3900?

Grant Richter grichter at asapnet.net
Sun Mar 3 19:17:26 CET 2002


It sounds great, the 2nd gen ARP filters are plenty phat. They have a clean
sound (a linear filter with low distortion). Some people fault them for the
lack of distortion, but I personally prefer a clean linear filter.

You can always add distortion latter.


> Speaking of LM3900's, I have always wanted to try one of the filters that uses
> a pair of transistors (connected differentially) with a current control to
> control
> the cutoff frequency (I think this is refered to as the Arp Filter).  Just how
> well (both electronically ad soundwise) does this really work?
> 




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