ChrisA
Well-known member
been thinking about some mods and have a couple of questions for ya Jakob...
1) how would you modify the ratio to change the 10:1 to something much higher?...It would appear that this would involve changing the value of a resistor near the ratio rotary, but I can't figure out which one....
2) I tried modfiying the attack time to make it faster by reducing the value of the 820R resistor in the attack section, however I encountered a lot of distortion after doing it...I changed it to 100R..does not really seem to be usable...Is this distortion just from the VCA not being able to handle it or is there another reason (such as op amp quality) that causes this?
3)how does the 6.8u cap affect the auto release...If that was changed to a higher or lower value, what would be the result and how exactly does the auto release work?
4)why specifically tantalums in the release section? would it react differently with a different type of capacitor?
The design is great the way it is, but I like to tinker with things and also always curious about how things work.
thanks man...
Chris
1) how would you modify the ratio to change the 10:1 to something much higher?...It would appear that this would involve changing the value of a resistor near the ratio rotary, but I can't figure out which one....
2) I tried modfiying the attack time to make it faster by reducing the value of the 820R resistor in the attack section, however I encountered a lot of distortion after doing it...I changed it to 100R..does not really seem to be usable...Is this distortion just from the VCA not being able to handle it or is there another reason (such as op amp quality) that causes this?
3)how does the 6.8u cap affect the auto release...If that was changed to a higher or lower value, what would be the result and how exactly does the auto release work?
4)why specifically tantalums in the release section? would it react differently with a different type of capacitor?
The design is great the way it is, but I like to tinker with things and also always curious about how things work.
thanks man...
Chris