Sunday, August 23, 2015

A mic preamplifier with JFETS and electron tube with peak limiting for ADC iPad Garageband etc

A good combination was 2 stages of K117 (4.7K all resistors, 2.6V) driving 2 stages of a 12AU7 Vb=12V or one stage of varymu EF183F triode connected Vb=6V. AN ATTENUATOR WAS CONNECTED AT THE OUTPUT (50K2 ALPS blue potentiometer).


So signal path was:


Grampian mic - Pleiades 1:30 2.2mH - K117 - K117 Vb=2.6V - EF183 Vb=6V  Ra-g=3.9M Ra=1.5K - ALPS 50k - Realistic disco mixer as headphone amp - att pad - HD-580


Other variation was 2 maximised gain stages of K117 Vb=6V 33K 4.7K separated by 100K potentiometer


nice at 9% of pot, compressing at 16%,  very loud dist on 26%


Need to try lower gain versions on K117 with 3.3K-3.8K  10K Vb=2.6V which are higher than 4.7K 4.7K



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