[sdiy] electronics library or obsession?

[David G. Dixon]

Seeing Dan's book stash has reminded me of something.  I was at a used
bookstore in little Jackson, California last week, and found a brilliant
little book: 

Active-Filter Cookbook, by Dan Lancaster.  

I have been checking out and reading many "university-level" books on
filters from UBC library, trying to make sense of this whole filter issue,
and while they all have their merits, none of them even mentions
voltage-controlled filters.  The Lancaster book has a whole section on VCFs,
and even shows exactly how to hook up an OTA to control a state-variable
filter (and why).  Heck, he even has a couple of pictures from the old PAiA
catalog!  The book is also a whole lot more straightforward regarding the
mathematics behind filters.  Really, unless one is majoring in EE, this
brilliant little book is all one needs to understand and design active
filters.  All the other books are going straight back to the library!

David G. Dixon
Professor
Department of Materials Engineering
University of British Columbia
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [mailto:synth-diy-
> bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Dan Snazelle
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 7:16 AM
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: [sdiy] electronics library or obsession?
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> this weekend my wife was pestering me to clean up my junk around the
> house.
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> The result of which is that now I got all my electronics books sort of
> organized.
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> Sadly, my binders (including electronotes) are all too tall to fit.
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> anyway...looking at these really makes me smile when I know how many ideas
> they contain!
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> now i just need to figure out what other books to ADD!
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