<div dir="auto">When building a noisegate using TL074 as a comparator, I was surprised to see that it was just as inappropriate as everyone had been saying all those years. Short transients were undetectable. The op-amp output simply didn't toggle directly on comparator detection, but was stuck for a little while in its saturated state. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">After redesign with the cheapest comparator IC instead, everything worked as a charm. Just do it! :-)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">/mr</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Den tis 29 aug. 2023 17:53Mike Beauchamp <<a href="mailto:list@mikebeauchamp.com">list@mikebeauchamp.com</a>> skrev:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On 2023-08-29 09:38, Scott Bernardi via Synth-diy wrote:<br>
> I've breadboarded a VCO with an OTA (as switch) - Integrator - Schmitt <br>
> trigger triangle / square wave generator at its core. I've noticed that <br>
> at higher frequencies, the amplitude of the triangle wave gets larger. <br>
> Like the output of the schmitt trigger is delayed in switching. I'm <br>
> using parts of a TL074 in the integrator and schmitt trigger.<br>
> Is this because the rise and fall times of the TL074 become a more <br>
> appreciable part of the waveform time? TL074 has 13 V/uSec slew rate, <br>
> which traverses the ~22v in about 1.7uSec, or the +/-5v trigger points <br>
> in a bit under 1uSec. Even at a top frequency of 16kHz, that's about 2% <br>
> of the total period.<br>
> Is there a way to compensate for this?<br>
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Maybe someone can chime in on this that knows more, but my guess is that <br>
if you're seeing the amplitude increase at higher frequencies then the <br>
1V/OCT tracking is probably getting bonked as well.<br>
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I built one VCO with a TL07x as a comparator and the tracking would get <br>
progressively worse at higher frequencies. I've also built a VCO with a <br>
discrete schmitt trigger like on Thomas Henry's VCO-1, and saw no <br>
tracking problems in fact the tracking was accurate well above human <br>
hearing range.<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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