mixing and volume


Posted on Feb 5, 2014

I built the LM386 amplifier section, and it pretty much works. I purchased a five-conductor headphone jack, which passes the left and right channels through to the mono amplifier section when nothing is plugged in, but disconnects the amplifier section when a headphone plug is inserted. The only problem is that even when disco


mixing and volume
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nnected, the amplifier section still picks up a faint copy of the audio signal (from antenna effects or power supply noise ) and amplifies it. Ideally the amplifier section would be switched off entirely when a headphone plug is inserted, instead of merely disconnecting its input signal. The bad news: The portion of the circuit before the headphone jack seems able to mix three channels into two, or to control the volume, but not both. The AY-3-8913 has three separate voices: A, B, and C. I want to mix them so that A is on the left stereo channel, C is on the right channel, and a half-volume copy of B is on both channels. This job is done with a resistor network. I also want to control the output volume with a potentiometer. Below are two similar circuits for performing these tasks. Although it`s not shown here, both circuits have their L and R outputs connected to the headphone jack, which in turn is connected to the speaker amplifier section as described above. On the right is the Polish circuit  I mentioned in my last post, with a 10K stereo audio potentiometer added at the output. On the left is a circuit I found on a ZX Spectrum hacking site, also with an output potentiometer. Neither circuit included a potentiometer originally. You can probably see where this is going: the functions of mixing and attenuation conflict. Mixing works because the total resistance between A, B, or C and L or R is different for different...




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