Waveulator ME Saturator Construction Information
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Re: Waveulator ME Saturator Construction Information
Updated assembly instructions 102823. Final copy: https://ka-electronics.com/images/pdf/W ... 2823_1.pdf
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Re: Waveulator ME Saturator Construction Information
I've been getting asked a lot of questions about what's required to wire up a Waveulator and thought a picture would be helpful.
The power supply is a TDK CUT-35FF/A enclosed version.
The meter is a Pico Compressor GR20 running on the TDK's 5V supply. The full scale is 10 dB peak reduction. The orange/blue pair hanging off to the side are for a power LED. The GR20 board is out of production and I don't have the layout. I'll be working on a similar meter and hope to have some boards soon.
The two coiled harnesses at the top are for the customer's "Process" switch (aka Bypass) and a European-coded AC power harness for their own IEC connector. My IEC harness and bypass switch are in the picture.
To the left are the audio leads for termination to XLRs.
I use headers for connection the the Phoenix connectors to keep things tidy.
The leads for the Gain pot are made a little longer than the rest so it can be placed at the right hand side of the controls. The normal flow is Threshold, Ratio/Hardness and then Gain.
I'll try to get some BOMs posted for the parts required to rack it.
The power supply is a TDK CUT-35FF/A enclosed version.
The meter is a Pico Compressor GR20 running on the TDK's 5V supply. The full scale is 10 dB peak reduction. The orange/blue pair hanging off to the side are for a power LED. The GR20 board is out of production and I don't have the layout. I'll be working on a similar meter and hope to have some boards soon.
The two coiled harnesses at the top are for the customer's "Process" switch (aka Bypass) and a European-coded AC power harness for their own IEC connector. My IEC harness and bypass switch are in the picture.
To the left are the audio leads for termination to XLRs.
I use headers for connection the the Phoenix connectors to keep things tidy.
The leads for the Gain pot are made a little longer than the rest so it can be placed at the right hand side of the controls. The normal flow is Threshold, Ratio/Hardness and then Gain.
I'll try to get some BOMs posted for the parts required to rack it.
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Re: Waveulator ME Saturator Construction Information
Several years ago Doug sent me some drum tracks to Waveulate. I just stumbled upon them and decided to process them with the new unit.
The first sample is unprocessed the second has about 7 dB of brickwall peak limiting. The makeup gain was manually adjusted to be close to the original peak level using a K-meter plugin.
Drum sample, unprocessed, then processed: https://ka-electronics.com/content/Wave ... miting.wav
The first sample is unprocessed the second has about 7 dB of brickwall peak limiting. The makeup gain was manually adjusted to be close to the original peak level using a K-meter plugin.
Drum sample, unprocessed, then processed: https://ka-electronics.com/content/Wave ... miting.wav