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Clean/Dirty power supplies

2017-10-06 by Mike Burnham

I recently built a few more PSUs for my modular but I noticed the other day that the VCOs are ever so slightly unstable and seem to be modulated by other stuff on the power rail. I notice that Yusynth designed an oscillator with onboard regulators because of this problem.

I made sure there is plenty of headroom for each PSU

I presume VCOs are really sensitive to these forms of modulation.

I have heard mention clean and dirty power supplies. Should all VCOs VCAs and VCFs be hooked up to one PSU and all logic/lfos/modulators etc hooked up to a dirty supply?

Also is it a good idea to use shielded cable for power?

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