Audio Booster Circuit

Small and portable unit, Can be built on a veroboard

The amplifiers gain is nominally 20 dB. Its frequency response is determined primarily by the value of just a few components-primarily C1 and R1. The values of the schematic diagram provide a response of ±3.0 dB from about 120 Hz to better than 20,000 Hz.Actually, the frequency response is ruler flat from about 170 Hz to well over 20,000 Hz; its the low end that deviates from a flat frequency response.

The low ends roll-off is primarily a function of capacitor C1(since RIs resistive value is fixed). If C1s value is changed to 0.1 pF, the low ends comer frequency-the frequency at which the low-end roll-off starts-is reduced to about 70 Hz. If you need an even deeper low-end roll-off, change C1 to a 1.0 pF capacitor; if its an electrolytic type, make certain that its installed into the circuit with the correct polarity, with the positive terminal connected to Q1s base terminal.

Circuit Diagram:

 Audio Booster Circuit Diagram

Parts	Description
P1	100K
R1	47K
R2	470K
R3	10K
R4	560R
R5	270R
C1	0.1uF-25v
C2	3.3uF-25v
C3	470uF-25V
D1	5mm. Red Led
B1	9v Battery
J1	RCA Audio Input Socket
J2	RCA Audio Output Socket
S1	On-Off Switch

 

Source :www.extremecircuits.net

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Audio Level Threshold Control

This circuit was originally designed for use in detecting discharges from individual neurons, where the infrequent discharges are difficult to separate from dominant background noise. It may also prove useful in other applications that need to detect infrequent low-level audio signals against a noisy background. The audio input signal is buffered by op amp IC1 before being applied to the opposing inputs of comparators IC4 & IC5. Positive and negative offset voltages are generated by VR1 and IC2 and fed to the other two inputs of the comparators. Essentially, the comparators act to produce a negative voltage at their commoned outputs (C) whenever the audio signal exceeds either the positive or negative offset voltage.

The signal at "C" is inverted by transistor Q1 to produce "D". These two signals are used to control a pair of CMOS switches (S1 & S2), which either pass the audio signal to the output or short it to ground. The signal from the CMOS switches is buffered by IC3, which in conjunction with the 10kΩ resistor and 10nF capacitor filters out the switching artefacts. In practice, the offset voltage is adjusted until there is little or no breakthrough of the noise background at the output. Thereafter, only audio signals exceeding the threshold are passed. Inevitably, this produces some crossover distortion but this is of little consequence compared with the benefit of the quiet background.

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Audio Variable Filter Circuit Diagram

The filter produces three outputs: high-pass, bandpass, and low-pass. Frequency is linearly proportional to the gain of the two integrators. Two CA3080s, (IC2, 4) provide the variable gain, the resonant frequency being proportional to the current ^. Using 741 op amps for IC3a control range of 100 to 1, (resonant frequency) can be obtained.If CA3140s are used instead of 741s then this range can be extended to nearly 10,000 to 1.

 Audio Variable Filter Circuit Diagram

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Audio Bandpass and notch filter

The Quad op amp MC4301 is used to configure a filter that will notch out a given frequency and produce that notched-out frequency at the BP terminal, useful in communications or measurement setups. By proper component selection any frequency filter up to a few tens of kilohertz can be obtained.

 Audio Bandpass and notch filter Circuit Diagram

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Cat5 Matrix Switchescat5 Audio Video Matrix Switch Solutions

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Audio Clipping Indicator

Detects clipping in preamp stages, mixers, amplifiers etc., Single LED display - 9V Battery supply unit

This circuit was intended to be used as a separate, portable unit, to signal by means of a LED when the output wave form of a particular audio stage is "clipping" i.e. is reaching the onset of its maximum permitted peak-to-peak voltage value before an overload is occurring. This will help the operator in preventing severe, audible distortion to be generated through the audio equipment chain. This unit is particularly useful in signaling overload of the input stages in mixers, PA or musical instruments amplification chains, but is also suited to power amplifiers. A careful setting of Trimmer R5 will allow triggering of the LED with a wide range of peak-to-peak input voltages, in order to suit different requirements. Unfortunately, an oscilloscope and a sine wave frequency generator are required to accurately setup this circuit. Obviously, the unit can be embedded into an existing mixer, preamp or power amplifier, and powered by the internal supply rails in the 9 - 30V range. The power supply can also be obtained from higher voltage rails provided suitable R/C cells are inserted. SW1 and B1 must obviously be omitted.

Parts:

R1_______________1M 1/4W Resistor (See Notes)
R2,R3,R8_______100K 1/4W Resistors
R4,R6___________10K 1/4W Resistors
R5_______________5K 1/2W Trimmer Cermet or Carbon
R7_______________2K2 1/4W Resistor
R9______________22K 1/4W Resistor
R10______________1K 1/4W Resistor (See Notes)
C1,C4__________220nF 63V Polyester Capacitors
C2_______________4p7 63V Ceramic Capacitor (See Notes)
C3_____________220µF 25V Electrolytic Capacitor
C5______________10µF 25V Electrolytic Capacitor (See Notes)
D1,D2________1N4148 75V 150mA Diodes
D3______________LED (Any dimension, shape and color)
Q1____________BC547 45V 100mA NPN Transistor
IC1___________TL062 Dual Low current BIFET Op-Amp (or TL072, TL082)
SW1____________SPST Toggle or Slide Switch (See Text)
B1_______________9V PP3 Battery (See Text)

Circuit operation:

The heart of the circuit is a window comparator formed by two op-amps packaged into IC1. This technique allows to detect precisely and symmetrically either the positive or negative peak value reached by the monitored signal. The op-amps outputs are mixed by D1 and D2, smoothed by C4, R7 and R8, and feed the LED driver Q1 with a positive pulse. C5 adds a small output delay in order to allow detection of very short peaks.

Notes:

• With the values shown, the circuit can be easily set up to detect sine wave clipping from less than 1V to 30V peak-to-peak (i.e. 15W into 8 Ohms). If you need to detect higher output peak-to-peak voltages, R1 value must be raised. On the contrary, if the circuit will be used to detect only very low peak-to-peak voltages, it is convenient to lower R1 value to, say, 220K omitting C2. In this way, the adjustment of R5 will be made easier.
• Using a TL062 chip at 9V supply, stand-by current drawing is about 1.5mA and less than 10mA when the LED illuminates. With TL072 or TL082 chips, current drawing is about 4.5mA and 13mA respectively.
• When using power supplies higher than 12V, the value of R10 must be raised accordingly.
• When using power supplies higher than 25V, the working voltage value of C5 must be raised to 35 or 50V.

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LM317 Simple Audio Amplifier Circuits

You most likely know that LM317 IC is applied as an practical provide regulator, but did you know it can be applied as an audio amplifier? This is a Low power Amplifier LM317 Simple Audio Amplifier Circuit a audio  designed with LM317 that offers a optimum probable 1W audio strength. 

LM317 Simple Audio Amplifier Circuit Diagrams :

LM317 Simple Audio Amplifier Circuits

Utilization a amazing heatsink for the LM317 IC and modify the 5K various resistor so that you have 4.5V on 10Ω resistor (or LM317 pin 2, Vout).

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25W Audio Power Amplifier Rise

This audio power amplifier project is based on LM1875 amplifier module from National Semiconductor. It can deliver up to 30W of power using an 8 ohm load & dual 30V DC power supplies. It is designed to operate with maximum outside parts with current limit & thermal shutdown protection features . Other features include high gain, quick slew rate, wide power supply range, giant output voltage swing & high current capability.

Summary of the audio amply-fire features:

• Low distortion: 0.015%, 1 kHz, 20 W
• Wide power bandwidth: 70 kHz
• Wide supply range 16V-60V
• Up to 30 watts output power
• Internal output protection diodes
• Protection for AC & DC short circuits to ground
• 94 dB ripple rejection
• Plastic power package TO-220

25V Power Supply

The schematic below shows how the +25V DC & -25V DC are obtained. In order to provide power supply for two stereo amplifiers, a power transformer rating of 80VA with 240V/36V middle tapped secondary winding is used. The secondary output of the transformer is rectified by using 1N5401 diodes together with four electrolytic capacitors to smoother the ripple voltage. A fuse & a varistor are connected at the primary input to protect the circuit against power surge.

Audio Amplifier Module

The +25V & -25V DC power supply are connected to the audio amplifier module through a 2A fuse with the peripheral devices shown in the schematic below. The audio input signal to be amplified is coupled to pin one of LM1875 through the resistor R1 and electrolytic capacitor E5.

The output signal at pin four of LM1875 can be used to directly drive a 8 ohm loudspeaker. Resistor R6 and capacitor C5 prevent-the capacitance developed at the long speaker leads from driving the amplifier in to High Frequency Oscillation.

A heat-sink with a thermal resistance rating of one.4 Cecilius/Watt or better must be used or else the amplifier module will-be cut-off from operation due to the heat that will build up in the coursework of the operation of the amplifier. Take note that the heat sink tab on the IC module is internally connected to the -25V power supply hence it must be isolated from the heat sink by the use of an insulating washer. If this is not done, the negative rail will be shorted to ground.

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2 3 Watt Low audio power amplifier

These amplifiers using IC KA2202 and KA2207, which has a power output of 2.3 Watt berimpedansi 4 ohms. Minimum supply voltage and maximum 5Volt 20Volt. See schematics and component list below.

Part List 

R1 = 100K

R2 = 56R

R3 = 56R

R4 = 1R

Use 1/4 Watt resistor

C1 = 100uF

C2 = 100uF

C4 = 100uF

C5 = 470uF

C6 = 100nF

C7 = 470pF
C8 = 2,2nF

C9 = 100uF

U1 = KA2202 , KA2207

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VU and PPM Meter Circuit for Audio

A VU (Volume Unit) meters used to be the mainstay of audio metering system. The Peak Program Meter (PPM) is notoriously bad at showing the peak signal level. This is a circuit that have function same of the explanation in above. In this circuit, the amplifier/rectifier is a simple LM1458 or similar dual op-amp, and buffers the rectifier circuit. This is the figure of VU meter;


The principle of the VU meter is a single diode is used in some, but the better ones will generally use a tiny selenium bridge rectifier or a germanium diode bridge. A capacitor is show, few budget VU meters will include it. As a result, the meter movement itself is uncontrolled in most of these meters, so overshoot is often huge, and the reading is almost useless. Because of the diode forward voltage, many of these meters also fail completely to register low level signals (< -20 dB). In figure 2, is shown of the meters ballistic control for the VU meter. The principle of this circuit is the values of R6, C1, C2 and C3 may need to be adjusted, depending upon the ballistics of the meter movement you use. Because meters vary so widely in this respect, it is only possible to provide representative values, although they should work quite well in practice. In order to get exact VU meter ballistics, it will be necessary to test the meter with a 300ms burst waveform at full scale (+3VU). It should reach 99% of full scale with up to 1% of overshoot before dropping back to zero. If we want to know about the result of the VU meter testing, we must make the circuit.

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Audio Power Meter Shows Your Audio Amplifier’s Actual Output Power

This is a circuit that can be used to measure the actual output power of your amplifier. You can put this circuit in a box as a measurement instrument, or you can integrate it inside your power amplifier to get real power display. This is the figure of the circuit;

 

This  circuit would be a handy instrument for audio engineer, for field testing and checking of sound system installations. Because the scale is logarithmic, you can measure wide range of audio output with only ten scales.  Look at the pin 5 of the LM3915, you can see that the input is not rectified. The negative swing will present at this input pin, but it harmless because the current is limited by R1, and the LM3915 will respond to positive cycle only.

The absence of peak detector or average detector will give the circuit a fast reading of instantenous power, and this gives us insight of both average and peak condition. For more readable peak or average measurement, you can use peak or average detector circuit. [Circuit diagram source: National Semiconductor Applicataion Notes]

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