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Re: silicon is cool

2/2/2000 3:28 PM
Stephen Conner	Re: silicon is cool Hey Mikko, Thanks for telling me about the EF86 VCA circuit. I have a pile of old Mullard EF86s which I wasn't using and I'll certainly try it out. I have stopped using the compressor in my old bass rig because it made the tone suck, but the tube one might sound cool. If you want some solid-state EQ I have a couple of designs, there is a state-variable parametric EQ from an old John Linsley Hood book, and also my own design of hybrid tube/op-amp parametric EQ. The EQ from the old Studiomaster mixer is pretty good too, it only uses 2 op-amps and has treble, sweep mids and sweep bass (shelving) I have one of these mixers in my home studio and the EQ sounds great. you can see the tube/op-amp EQ at http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~cnbp111/peq.html as well as the rest of my project amp the 'Toaster'. I'm thinking of basing my bass preamp on the Toaster preamp. See ya Steve C.

2/2/2000 3:28 PM

Stephen Conner

Re: silicon is cool

Hey Mikko,

Thanks for telling me about the EF86 VCA circuit. I have a pile of old Mullard EF86s which I wasn't using and I'll certainly try it out. I have stopped using the compressor in my old bass rig because it made the tone suck, but the tube one might sound cool.

If you want some solid-state EQ I have a couple of designs, there is a state-variable parametric EQ from an old John Linsley Hood book, and also my own design of hybrid tube/op-amp parametric EQ. The EQ from the old Studiomaster mixer is pretty good too, it only uses 2 op-amps and has treble, sweep mids and sweep bass (shelving) I have one of these mixers in my home studio and the EQ sounds great.

you can see the tube/op-amp EQ at

http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~cnbp111/peq.html

as well as the rest of my project amp the 'Toaster'. I'm thinking of basing my bass preamp on the Toaster preamp.

See ya

Steve C.

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rok check my Toaster out http://www.bla... -- 2/3/2000 2:29 PM
Mikko Helin Thanks Stephen, the op-amp/tube EQ ... -- 2/3/2000 3:28 PM