Simple active EQ

Dual-gang pot? ...Jim Thompson

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Maybe, but likely too bulky and too costly...

Maybe two op amps configured as high pass, low pass filters, and then a single pot with output taken from the tap as like a balance control...

Should really control the resistance of the feedback paths for true boost/cut. Just thinking out loud

Fig. 10.14 in Douglas Self's book "Small Signal Audio Design" seems to have what I'm looking for, it apparently is called the "Ambler active tone control circuit"

People used to call this a "tone control."

Still two pots, no? You might think about something with switched cap filters.

George H.

The Ambler tilt control has only one pot.

That's the word I was trying to remember... "tilt", as in a tilt equalizer. ...Jim Thompson

Ahh.. shown here?

That's kinda cute.

George H.

How about this?

Or if you need higher resolution and sample rate add this,

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Here's one of a vintage you'd probably appreciate... :^)

I suppose it's not active though. Does it have to be? Why does it matter?

Tim

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The active Baxandall tone control - with two pots - sounds very like what you are asking for. Put the two pots on the same shaft and you'd have what you ask for.

The Peter Baxandall involved is the same guy that invented the Baxandall class-D amplifier. He was an active member of the UK audio engineering mafia, and a good mate of Peter Walker the guy that set up Quad Electroacoustics.

Huh, I don't really know tubes, but I can see how that works. Nice schematic. The other circuit has two poles... I'd have to make a bode plot. Mixing things with pots is kinda fun.

George H.

'Tone' is just treble cut.

NT

Google images for tone control circuit

There are lots of single-pot circuits, some of which do the nearly-ideal adjustable s-curve thing.

Everything is possible, but IRL 'tone' on a control knob means treble cut at least 99% of the time.

NT

Google it.