Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Ryozi Higashi

Hiroyuki Hirano

Saburo Takaoka

A tone control circuit includes a variable gain amplifier circuit, a first mixer combining the variable gain amplifier output with a tone control circuit input and providing its output signal to the variable gain amplifier input, and a second mixer combining the outputs of the first mixer and variable gain amplifier. The mixers may be either adders or subtractors as long as the natural logarithm of the overall gain of the tone control circuit varies substantially linearly with changes in the feedback ratio of the variable gain amplifier.

Tone control circuit utilizing variable gain amplifier

A tone control arrangement is disclosed which is suitable for use in various sound reproducing instruments and in which the signal-to-noise ratio of the reproduced sound can be improved by controlling the frequency response of the audible signal with a variable d.c. voltage source. Frequency response control by a single d.c. control voltage is achieved by connecting in series and in order a first mixer, passive circuit network having a signal transmission characteristic determined by the desired frequency response of the output sound signal to be reproduced, a multiplier and a second mixer. The inverting inputs of the first and second mixers both receive the output of the multiplier, while the non-inverting input of the first mixer receives the input audio signal. The non-inverting input of the second mixer receives either the output of the first mixer or the input audio signal. Finally, the second input to the multiplier is provided by a variable d.c. voltage source. Tone control is achieved through a single control member even in the case of multi-channel systems by either using a single potentiometer wiper in common as the second input to each of the multipliers in the respective channels, or by ganging together a plurality of potentiometer wipers for control by a single member.

Tone control arrangement for use in sound reproducing instruments

A tone control device for an audio equipment comprises a first mixer amplifier, at least one second mixer, a third mixer and at least one band rejection filter, which are operatively engaged with each other such that a center frequency, Q value and gain thereof can be independently controlled.

Tone control device

A tone control circuit device including a plurality of bandpass filters connected in parallel with one another with each of the bandpass filters having a different center frequency and each being variable in order to vary the tone as in a graphic equalizer. In one embodiment, the output signals from the bandpass filters are coupled both to non-inverting input terminals of output and input signal summers. The input signal is coupled to another input of the input signal summer and the combined signals coupled to inputs of each of the bandpass filters and to a non-inverting terminal of the output signal summer. In another embodiment, plural characteristic circuits, each including a band-stop filter, are connected in parallel between input and output signal summers through a disclosed amplifier network. With this invention, a graphic equalizer tone control device can be constructed which is essentially free from noise and which has a very low distortion factor.

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Tokorozawa, Japan

Ryozi Higashi