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Problem With Pre Amp Circuit

03/04/2011 2:44 AM

i want pre amp circuit for a mic which hear sound up to 100Hz and show output on scope with out clipping the edges of sine wave

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Re: Problem With Pre Amp Circuit

03/04/2011 8:49 AM

Do some googling for [audio pre amp]--there are a lot of suitable circuits out there. You do have to consider what the input signal is like (amplitude, impedance).

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03/04/2011 9:48 AM

Do you really mean 100Hz?

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03/04/2011 10:40 AM

yes from 100Hz to 1KHz

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03/04/2011 10:58 AM

That's not what you said in your first post.

"which hear sound up to 100Hz"

How can anyone help you if even you don't know what you mean?

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03/04/2011 11:07 AM

We have another 20 questions competition here. Next I expect to hear the OP claim that we're the ones who don't know what they need or that nobody listens to them.

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Re: Problem With Pre Amp Circuit

03/04/2011 10:49 AM

100 Hz? My thats a low audio frequency to have for an upper limit. That note will be between a G and an A flat two octaves below the concert pitch of A-440, at the upper register of the contra octave and just below the great octave. Where tuba, bass viol, bassoon, and organ pipes typically rule. This is not a difficult frequency range for most electronics, it can be a very difficult range to accurately transduce with many microphones. A major part of the problem accepting frequencies this low and lower into an audio recording is that many non-auditory frequencies will couple through the transducer that have nothing to do with desired acoustics; wind, rumbles from mechanical coupling through the microphone stand, electronic thermal stability effects, coupling with power line frequencies.

You don't really provide enough information to really help you other than maybe your pre-amp has too much gain in the first place.

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03/04/2011 7:22 PM

Excellent reply.

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03/05/2011 10:32 AM

How about you show us what you are using, and we can criticize it, or you can try this one?

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03/06/2011 4:01 AM

Use 20Hz to 20kHz range for sound signals unless you want to amplify Ultrasound signals.

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03/07/2011 10:38 PM

A good amplifier will go at least to 100KHz and in the low frequencies will be a dc coupling stages. I've built one with those characteristics for a friend, guitar player, and he complained that the sound doesn't have enough "grease". Even now, I don't know what he meant....

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03/07/2011 11:15 PM

For 100 Hz you need to use near DC level amplifier so use large capacitors in the amplifier circuits that allow signal input and output and also used in gain circuit.

You can also contact Ron Tipton at http://tdl-tech.com/ and he sure will help you in making one suitable for your need. He is a retired defense personal and very active in hobby electronics for nearly 4 decades.

Other methods are to look at web sites for audio amplifier ICs

www.analog.com

www.ti.com

www.maxim-ic.com and

www.national.com

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03/07/2011 11:31 PM

As usual, the guest has clammed up.

If you want the pearl of wisdom, you will have to open up. Clipping is normally from overdriving - too much input signal or too much gain. You need a minimum of 3kHz frequency response for voice and 10kHz for music.

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03/08/2011 11:51 AM

sir how r u waqas here i attach here a link of research paper which we r implementing experimental diagram is at page 264 and testing frequencies are at 263 page now the one and only problem is that with pre amplifier for there two MICs in diagram . which i already told u that we need a highly precised pre amplifier for mic's which which listen from disturbance speaker a sine wave and mic's preamps shows there output at scope thats what we are getting at output.. now sir i actual problem is to design such type of pre amplifier for these MICs which shows an actual signal every other things are implemented this is just the problem . i alredy designed preaamp with lm386 but all in vain we get output signal of a diffrent shape although voice is amplified but signal is distorted . so plzz design a gud and simple pre amplifier for this which gives a gud output signal of same shape as of input shape.. so sir i only want a mic pre amplifier design which gives output of a gud shape sine wave which is applied thru disturbance speaker. plzzzz sir i very tense for that kindly help me in that matter .. also we have checked our mic's at ePal boared of dr. Nadeem lehrasab at ePal the mic gives a gud result i.e a signal of same applied shape and frequency but we r not allowed to use epal thats why i asking about you to help me in providing design of a gud pre amplifier. i will be very thank full to u . waiting for your reply soon. link of research paper http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57792/1/RaviARMARKOVAdaptiveTCST2000.pdf

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03/08/2011 12:07 PM

Flat response mic pre-amplifiers are DC amplifier and mic need to be of flat response at first place.

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03/08/2011 12:13 PM

sorry sir i can't understand plzz explain more about flat response

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03/08/2011 12:16 PM

If you test the pre-amp separately with an attenuated input signal of a function generator, you will not include what ever non-linearities of the microphone.

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03/08/2011 12:21 PM

.. also we have checked our mic's at ePal boared of dr. Nadeem lehrasab at ePal the mic gives a gud result i.e a signal of same applied shape and frequency but we r not allowed to use epal thats why i asking about you to help me in providing design of a gud pre amplifier

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03/08/2011 12:23 PM

can u help me in giving such type of preamplifier design ????

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03/08/2011 2:04 PM

Yes, I can design a microphone preamplifier. I hate to be rude but I do not think that you can fabricate or test such a design. Assuming that you are the original Anonymous Poster #1, you initially stated that you wanted an amplifier to "hear sound up to 100 Hz". You changed that to 100 Hz to 1 kHz. You haven't even identified what type of microphone you are using. You've never quantified the parameters of the amplifier gain or the amplifier's input and output impedance characteristics. I suggested that you should test your existing amplifier with a function generator to determine if your amplifier or microphone is producing the undesired distortion and you've not done that.

I cannot help people that do not take advice.

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03/08/2011 9:10 PM

Since you refuse to share your design, and you didn't like the vacuum tube one I presented, this one came up in a simple Google search:I am out of here.

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03/09/2011 12:05 AM

sir actually when i said about frequency upto 100Hz i.e why because amplifier which i designed initially is not listening frequencies lower than 1KHz and which also 1KHz which are listened by microphone are in square wave at output. But we r applying a sine wave of 139.6Hz of Vpp 5V. thats why i ask about frequency upto 100Hz sir . Now sir the circuit i designed as a preamplifier using lm386 having gain of 200. sir im using simple condensor MICs and Computer MICs. But sir i totally loose my confidence due to that sir i want a simple preamplifier circuit with variable gain i.e which contain a POT which varies the gain and give same shape of sinewave as which im applying at input thru the speaker . and sir im giving input signal thru the function generator . also sir all speakers and microphones are covered in an acoustic duct. sir here is the link of article which we r implementing and experimental diagram is at page 264. http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57792/1/RaviARMARKOVAdaptiveTCST2000.pdf sir i will be very thankful to u if u resolve my that problem im continously loosing my aal confidence in preamplifier though it is a small thing but i dont know why my mind get stuck off there sir plzzzzzz help me plzzz sir i will be very thank full to u i work at IAA(Institute of avionics and aeronautics ) as a lab engineer . but sir ur the only hope which will help me plzzz sir i want just simple preamplifier design which does not distort the signal shape. waiting for your reply sir ... thankx alot

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03/09/2011 12:21 AM

It's late here and you've cited an in depth control systems IEEE paper. I will give you some assistance here but this is not going to be fast. I need time to work through the paper you referenced and your fractured English. (Please, do not take my last comment as an insult. Your English is much better than I am in your native language.) It would help if you have any waveforms of the input versus output you can post.

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03/09/2011 12:36 AM

sir at that time i have no pictures . but its a simple sinewave from function generator of Vpp5v . we just require a sinewave at microphone preamplifier's output that shape of signal must not changed by preamplifier .

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03/09/2011 12:58 AM

sir its impossible for me to post an output and input waveform but i know it is a simple input waveform of sinewave and at out we also need amplified sinewave.

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03/09/2011 11:45 AM

Ok, I've read through the paper you've cited and it gives me many more concerns about what you are trying to do than I had before. This is an excellent paper on adaptive noise cancellation techniques. The introduction and theory is the first six pages of this paper. The theory is a very cryptic but informative matrix analysis in "n" dimensional space on how to dynamically attenuate a perceived signal. (I thank you for bringing this paper to my attention.) I do have some confusion as to why the "plant" output transfer response z(k) is being folded back into the feedback matrix Gc. This implies that the plant has no output to the world where one has a desired net result, but I did not do my own in depth analysis of this paper.

In section "VII Experimental Results" (page 263) the microphone amplifier used was a dbx760x that one can find used equivalents from $200 to $500. Along with this there is a "four-pole Ithaco low-pass filter model DL 4302" with a 315 Hz roll off. Likely this is a four pole Butterworth filter. (I would choose to make this in an Ackerberg-Mossberg design that would incorporate a total of eight op-amps per channel, but this would not be as flexible as the instrument cited.) As the link shows, a used version of this adjustable filter goes for $650. I suspect that both of these units could be done in just one stage but this is not a simple redesign. The used retail cost of this equipment is about $1000. You get what you pay for.

This leads me to my final comments, I would very much like to help you with this project. The paper you cite is a very in depth analysis and implementation of acoustic noise cancellation using digital sampling and active feedback. After one fabricates the experimental setup shown in the paper's figure 4, the microphone amplifier is the simplest part of this entire design. If you cannot get this to work or properly explain how it is not working (I'm still not certain what you are using for a microphone amplifier or why you believe that its not working) then I hate to see what will happen when you attempt to use the mathematics of this paper to design the control algorithm.

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03/11/2011 12:35 AM

sir im using lm386 as mic preamplifier . with gain 20 and also i checked it with gain 200 but problem is same . i request u to help me in providing simply a good mic pre amplifier design . we already designed a butterworth filter and Bzu matrix code in matlab is also written and we have our simulation in labview . so i simply needs a mic preamplifier design i u can help me in providing that i will be very thank ful to you also give me your complete introduction i will qoute it in my thesis and presentation. and we can co ordinate ni many matter because the place where i work i also branch of NI(national instruments) we have research labs of many technologies so we can coordinate with each other . plzzz as quick as u can provide me design do it . i will be very thank ful to you waiting for your reply

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03/11/2011 1:08 AM

I have several pressing things to do the rest of this week, so I won't be able to get back to you until the earliest late this Sunday.

Wait a minute, you said your function generator is producing a 5V sine wave. An amplifier with a gain of 20 should turn that into 100V. A LM386 cannot handle 100 V for an output. Where is the function generator signal placed? How does it couple into the amplifier? Language barrier maybe the root of this problem but I certainly cannot help you if I don't understand what you're telling me.

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03/11/2011 1:38 AM

ok thankxx alot for your cooperation

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03/25/2011 1:16 AM

You need few Hz to 100Hz low frequency sonar amplifier used for catching whale sound signals and other marine signals. DC amplifier will work better. Which Microphone is with you?. Do you have a PDF catalog for it?

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03/25/2011 1:55 AM

thankx for ur cooperation sir i have done it .

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