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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26.06.2023 22:34, Neil Johnson via
Synth-diy wrote:<br>
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<div>When you add a DC blocking capacitor to the summing
opamp input (assuming you're using an inverting
opamp circuit) what you have done is create a crude
differentiator. It's crude because, unlike an ideal
differentiator, the gain at daylight is not infinite.
Certainly the gain at DC is 0. How good a differentiator
it is depends on the resistors and the opamp (and for lols,
opamps are crude integrators).</div>
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<p>Worse. Not crude, but poor. <br>
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<p>At Daylight, its phase shift goes to 0, so no differentiation at
all. The only point where it is a perfect differentiation is at DC
(turning any constant into 0) as you say, and close to that the
gain is zero. <br>
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<p>Near the corner frequency we can turn a sine into a 45° shifted
cosine or sine depending on how you want to look at it. Halfway
there. But not the derivative. <br>
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<p>(And definitely not phase modulation. For this you'd need the
derivative at ALL frequencies.)<br>
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<p>Whats much more important here is a rectification effect: <br>
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<p>Because the opamp summing node that the linear FM input goes to,
has different current sourcing/sinking capabilities in either
direction, a DC offset develops across the cap. <br>
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<p>Happens even if your modulating waveform is perfectly centered
and symmetrical (i.e. DC free). <br>
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<p>Best,</p>
<p> René<br>
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