Wednesday, January 1, 2014

JC Maillet Super Full Wave Octaver

Built this to see if it delivers. It does. Sounds sort of like an inverted, bastard brother of the Green Ringer. Just a bit sleeker in its overall feel. All the information needed on this design (and more) is available at JC's site.

A snippet from the page: Ever wonder what F(x) = |x| sounds like ? Of course I'm speaking in terms of the DC-Transfer function of a non-linear wave-shaper circuit ... for those who don't know Spice or network theory very well - this transfer maps out the quasi-static change in DC conditions everywhere in the circuit (currents and voltages) as the input source (current or voltage) changes in same manner ... this mapping, I should add, totally ignores the frequency dependent behavior of the circuit - it's doing the test at DC (0hz) ... this stuff is routinely used to uncover the harmonics generating capability of non-linear analogue gain stages ... 

To build yours with only one pot, you'll need to swap the lower left hand side 15K resistor with a 100K and replace the "Control" pot with another 100K resistor. I'm calling the pot "control" as it doesn't have a designated name on the schematic or in the description. There also added 1M pulldown resistor at the input, as well as added polarity protection diode. I used LM358 opamp, but i do believe you should be fine with JRC4558, TL072 or any other dual opamp with the same pinout. Oh. I also recommend to use 10K lin pot for the level. That's why it is listed as linear on the layout.


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