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Funny thing is the parts Im waiting on are LED spacers for the displays. I managed to build up two processor boards this evening in the meantime.
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I made some progress getting one board and the the display boards up and running. Found out I reversed the order of the display LEDs but that was fixed with a software change. Another issue I discovered was that when I decided on the suggested alternative for the DG418 I picked the one rated for 8V max supply. It was a head scratcher trying to figure out how a handful of TL072's could be drawing 150mA but my finger found the problem. I had enough spares of the correct part to replace them on one board and ran a functional test and everything checks out. If the replacements get here in time before moving my son to college I'll try to get both going and sample some audio. I have the audio in/out boards on order with bypass relays and THAT1246/THAT1646 doing the bal to un-bal. Thats all for now kids.
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Great progress. Very nice!
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Will it be possible to bring any of the 'under the hood' parameters like attack, release and ratio, out to the front panel? To use it in a production as opposed to broadcast environment I think that would be necessary. Really cool project though. Following closely.
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Gold wrote: Mon Aug 16, 2021 12:33 pm Will it be possible to bring any of the 'under the hood' parameters like attack, release and ratio, out to the front panel? To use it in a production as opposed to broadcast environment I think that would be necessary. Really cool project though. Following closely.
I think that is a possibility I can look into. Since it was designed in the flavor of the Texar unit I have 3 analog inputs from front panel pots currently; gate level, density and AGC. The Texar only made the gate and density as a front panel adjust but I added agc to allow the slow agc to be adjustable from 2 to 8 seconds full expand to full compress and vice versa. Any of the dynamic parameters are in code so a code change would allow other functions. I also added an RS232 port and I may add some features to this design that can be adjusted with serial commands. I'll probably write a PC program to make this easier and then the user can have presets they can load in for various setups.
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Sounds like a good plan.
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While Im waiting on some more parts I decided to try my hand at desinging the front panel for this thing. I finally think I have the hang of the software, or at least I hope this is what I will end up getting when I order it.
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Looks great!
Shouldn't level level controls go to "11?"
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mediatechnology wrote: Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:56 pm Looks great!
Shouldn't level level controls go to "11?"
11? I dunno. Is there a standard scale for audio levels? Most everything I own doesnt even have scales.
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