[sdiy] help with clicks on VCA

Antti Huovilainen ajhuovil at cc.hut.fi
Mon Aug 17 14:27:31 CEST 2009


On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Dan Snazelle wrote:

> it happens with square waves too even with saws

Square has two sharp edges, saw one. Only difference is the number of 
clicks per cycle.

> from what i have been reading this is a very common problem with tremolos

Slewrate limiting followed by a lowpass should help a lot.
Perhaps use something like TLC27L2?

On related note, is there some way to artificially slewrate limit an opamp 
circuit without affecting the gain-bandwidth product?

Antti

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