[sdiy] Advices for ringmod and noise source

Scott Bernardi sbernardi at comcast.net
Thu Jun 24 14:00:50 CEST 2004


Here's one based on a 1496 balanced modulator chip (readily available) 
that works well:
og2 1496 Ring Modulator 
<http://home.comcast.net/%7Esbernardi/elec/og2/og2_ringmod.html>

Linium wrote:

>Thank you everybody for all the answers i gathered ! :)
>
>So from my own sum-up, AD633 based design would be the most accurate:
>I found one from Roman Sowa, here :
>http://www.sowa.synth.net/rm.html
>
>Ken Stone on his own quest for beautiful raw sound prefered a germanium 
>matched diodes design with transformers:
>http://www.cgs.synth.net/modules/cgsrr.html
>
>Jurgen Haible give a schemo on his web of an OTA based design that would sound 
>interesting with some non-linearities:
>http://www.oldcrows.net/~jhaible/tonline_stuff/jh1_ring.gif
>
>A very simple design from ARP:
>http://www.simple-answer.com/ARPring.gif
>
>The Don Buchla's design:
>http://rubidium.dyndns.org/~magnus/synths/companies/buchla/Buchla_4100_4_200.jpg
>
>Well , they are probably tons of other. Too bad that the Ken Stone's design 
>seems to require germanium matched diode and transformers, but since i may 
>order some germanium diode for some guitar FX, may be...
>On the other hand, the Jurgen Haible's design appeals to me since it is seems 
>to be one with an interesting sound.
>Last, the ARP one is brain dead easy to build, seamingly.
>
>Thks again for all the inputs, for the noise source i need to think about it a 
>little more, i will see later.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Linium
>
>
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>
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