St3venhall
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Hello everyone! This is my first post so I hope I'm not breaking any rules.
I am looking to build an inexpensive audio compression/limiting circuit using a 3.5mm headphone Jack as the input and 3.5mm for the output as well. It will need to be passive, or maybe battery powered but I would really prefer to have it be passive, if possible.
For the compression I'm looking for a very high ratio limiter, with fast attack and fast release. Basically my objective is to squash the audio input and normalize it without clipping, the threshold should capture just about every audio input signal, excluding the noise floor (static, etc.).
This is not for music applications, the overall objective is to take whispers and screams that might be in a podcast or something and have it all come out at the exact same level. I want to eliminate any dynamic range from the audio source.
I'm a novice with electronic DIYer with an audio engineering degree, and have arduino's and a couple of component kits, etc. I know I will probably need some special transistors or maybe an IC chip, but information on the Internet is very scattered. Does anyone have any ideas or possibly resources I could turn to?
Thank you so much!
I am looking to build an inexpensive audio compression/limiting circuit using a 3.5mm headphone Jack as the input and 3.5mm for the output as well. It will need to be passive, or maybe battery powered but I would really prefer to have it be passive, if possible.
For the compression I'm looking for a very high ratio limiter, with fast attack and fast release. Basically my objective is to squash the audio input and normalize it without clipping, the threshold should capture just about every audio input signal, excluding the noise floor (static, etc.).
This is not for music applications, the overall objective is to take whispers and screams that might be in a podcast or something and have it all come out at the exact same level. I want to eliminate any dynamic range from the audio source.
I'm a novice with electronic DIYer with an audio engineering degree, and have arduino's and a couple of component kits, etc. I know I will probably need some special transistors or maybe an IC chip, but information on the Internet is very scattered. Does anyone have any ideas or possibly resources I could turn to?
Thank you so much!