Free Electronic Circuit Design
I. Introduction BWE-PONG is an octaver and noise grabber effect module designed for guitar effect pedal application. More than just producing polyphonic octave and sub octave sound, it can also capture the noise spectrum and then using it to remove the noise from the original input signal. As the result, your guitar signal will fade out to the silence without […]
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Introduction BWE-VO3 is a vocoder effect module designed for guitar effect pedal application, based on digital simulation of analog channel vocoder (https://www.deeptronic.com/manual/bwe-vo3-vocoder-module-user-manual/) Here are the main features of this vocoder: 18-channel filters on both analyzer and synthesizer Triple operation modes: talkbox, classic, and unison Gender control for classic mode Resonance frequency control for talkbox mode Unison width control for unison […]
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The PDM (pulse-density modulation) has been widely used in the current technology of audio signal conversion (from analog to digital) because its simplicity while achieving high quality conversion. This technology is widely used in digital microphone, and it is basically a sigma delta modulator circuit which is used in many modern audio codec chip as well. It is an interesting […]
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Power supply is one of the main element in every electronic circuit, and the right AD/DC adapter circuit should be chosen if we want our device to accept power line voltage as the main supply. There several types of AC/DC adapter circuits, transformer-less (non-isolated), step-down transformer, and switched-mode power supply adapter. The schematic diagram of the circuits and how to […]
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Introduction Full-adder circuit is one of the main element of arithmetic logic unit. It is the full-featured 1-bit (binary-digit) addition machine that can be assembled to construct a multi-bit adder machine. We can say it as a full-featured addition machine since it has “carry input” and a “carry-output”, in addition to the two 1-bit data inputs and one 1-bit data […]
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Since the release of ESP32 by Espressif, many application-specific modules based on this chip are produced. For example, Ai-Thinker produce image processing module with artificial intelligence support for image recognition. In the audio processing area, one interesting product by Ai-Thinker is the ESP32-A1S module. Because of the integrated AC101 codec inside, this module enable very compact and low cost solution […]
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Introduction to Reverberation Before getting into the design of DIY reverb pedal circuit, lets see the concept of reverberation first. Real reverberation happens in a performance chamber when the walls and every object inside reflects the sound back and forth. As the sound bounces back and forth in three dimensional space, the reflections creates more and more complex pattern. The […]
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DIY Multi-Effect Pedal and Today’s Advanced Electronics Digital DIY multi-effect pedal is an expensive things in the past, but the advance of today’s digital electronics brings new hopes for many things. Because now there are many choices for low cost and high performance DSP microcontrollers, now I think we can implement a DIY multi-effect pedal with much lower cost than […]
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The Need for Component Adjustment Have you ever bent some components to trim their position? But then you got your PCB‘s track and soldering pad broken? I’m sure many of you have ever done it, since there would be many reason to do. Some of them just do that for aligning to get better visual appearance. Or some others might […]
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9 DIY Digital Effect Pedal Platform List To start researching on DIY (do-it-yourself) digital effect pedal for the next project, let’s see the list first. Take a look at some popular platforms to compare their specifications and prices, here are some: UNO – Electrosmash’s pedalSHIELD UNO MEGA – Electrosmash’s pedalSHIELD MEGA DUE – Electrosmash’s pedalSHIELD DUE Electrosmash’s Pedal Pi Openmusiclabs’s […]
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Introduction: Analog-to-Digital Conversion Oversampling Every analog-to-digital conversion is designed for specific resolution depending on the bit (binary digit) width of the conversion. For example, a 10 bit ADC with 5V reference would have 5V/1024 resolution or about 4.883 mV. The intrinsic error related to the resolution is the digital-quantization error of ±0.5 bit. In other words, it should produce only […]
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Introduction: PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation) for Digital Audio Conversion Pulse width modulation (PWM) technique has been widely used for converting digital audio stream into audio signal since it is very simple and easy to implement. Many low-cost micro controllers include dedicated PWM controllers as their standards, and many engineers use it for many purposes. In this article, we present the solution […]
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