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29.11.03
There is nothing mathematical about electronics
Making electronic circuits is quite complex. There are a lot of books on the subject, and they tend to make it seem easy. You'll find tens of diagrams for easy amplifiers, oscillators and filters. But if you start wiping those together you'll find that these circuits are rather unpredictable. If you make several, you will find they sound totally different. This is because the components differ a lot. A hand full of transistors that should amplify some 100 times, may vary between 50 and 250 times. I bought 200 Ge diodes, they open up between .2 volt and 1.8 volt. So you start making your circuits choosing your components with individually tested parts.
Either this, our you need to expand your circuits enormously in order to cancel out all the difference that the parts have.
So, if you buy ANY analogue gear, you ought to test them all. And professional gear, like a pair of mikes and a mixing console that has egual sounding channels, is expensive as they making and testing involves a lot of handwork.
If you design yourself: there seems to be a saying among electronic engineers: If you want to build an amplifier, build an oscillator, and vice versa. Leon says he regularly designs various silence generators. I have just finished another no-pass filter.
Either this, our you need to expand your circuits enormously in order to cancel out all the difference that the parts have.
So, if you buy ANY analogue gear, you ought to test them all. And professional gear, like a pair of mikes and a mixing console that has egual sounding channels, is expensive as they making and testing involves a lot of handwork.
If you design yourself: there seems to be a saying among electronic engineers: If you want to build an amplifier, build an oscillator, and vice versa. Leon says he regularly designs various silence generators. I have just finished another no-pass filter.
