Hey AG,Please change the scale to see.
Your mic draws about 0.5mA so the voltage drop in the 1k +10k resistors is 5.5V then the mic gets 9V - 5.5V= 3.5V which is good for low level voices. There is a modification to an electret mic made by Linkwitz so that its Jfet is a follower instead of an amplifier. This modification is used when an electret mic gets a very high sound level inside a drum. Here is a video of the modification:
The input of your TL072 is biased at 0VDC and the signal causes it to drop as low as about -1.5V which is far from the -9V negative supply battery so it should be fine. The design of the TL072 is old and new ones use the same old design.
The Cmoy circuit uses one opamp in an OPA2134 to drive one 32 ohm earphone to a level not loud. You said you have a headset with 24 ohm earphones that make a load of 12 ohms when in mono and you want it loud. The OPA2134 does not produce enough output power to do it but the LM386 can do it easily.
Yes, so the waveform is not upside down. Here is your signal and one I found on the internet. I inverted your signal so it resembles the "normal" one:
hello gary,View attachment 110588
After Talking with you on the phone yesterday, This is What I would Recommend.
Changes:- Changed new batteries. Also preamp and lm386 has now separate power supplies with common ground.Adding the capacitors should not have reduced the DC voltage on the mic to almost nothing. It was 5V before and it still should be 5V. With less than 2V on an electret mic it works very poorly and now yours shows a very low output level.
Your new 'scope photos still show a lot of high frequencies so maybe the lowpass filter is not working properly.
The new photos of the output of the TL072 and LM386 show strong 7 or 8 cycles per second (8Hz) and I wonder where that comes from (cardiac fibrillation?). Maybe it is motorboating oscillation in the circuit caused by poor connections on the solderless breadboard. A heartbeat is a pressure pulse, not a low frequency.
The LM386 with a 9V supply should be able to make very loud sounds in headphones without clipping that might deafen you. I just checked about headphones loudness on the web.
It says, "Take another moment and think about all those portable tape players. They sound great, and loud. Why, you can even hear them ten feet away as the teenage skateboarder that ran over your foot escapes. Power output? About 12 mW."
An LM386 with a 9V supply can produce deafening 140mW into one 32 ohms earphone without clipping. Maybe your +9V battery that is also powering the mic is dead?
hello gary,
thank you for the circuit. I'm yet to try it, waiting for parts. will update you with results.
what do you mean another amplifier section? your circuit already has preamp and power amp right?It Works, But Does Need another Amplifier Section for Higher Gain.
Hey AG,I assume your "R1" is the one on my schematic in post #22. I don't know your exact new battery voltage but if it is 9.2V then the 1k value for R16 has a current of (9.2V - 8.7V)/1k= 0.5mA which is normal for an electret mic.
Then since the mic voltage is only 0.47V the resistor R1 value is 8.7V - 0.47V)/0.5mA= 16460 ohms instead of 10k ohms.
Your output of the LM386 shows an average of +1.3V which is wrong. The capacitor C6 blocks DC so it should average 0V. The output pin 5 of the LM386 should be about +4.5V so maybe C6 is mounted with backwards polarity that would cause it to pass some of the DC. The output from the LM386 shows maximum peaks of only 1V does not show clipping and its output is far from a peak of 3V which would show clipping.
The outputs of the TL072 and LM386 still show plenty of 80Hz and high frequencies. A low frequency heartbeat signal has wide pulses. A high frequency "tick" or "snap" sound is narrow like your signals show.
Your recordings have a lot of things shuffling around but heartbeats sound like the normal pulses that I expect to hear. The internet is full of low frequency pulses from heartbeats.
Here is one with some murmurs:And here is another:
what do you mean another amplifier section? your circuit already has preamp and power amp right?
AG,The voltage across the mic could be low if the polarity of C2 in my circuit is backwards. C2 does not conduct DC when it has the correct polarity then the opamp has nothing to do with it. Or replace C2 then replace the mic.
A heartbeat has no 80Hz sounds, instead it has wide pulses about two times to five times per second. Murmurs cause frequencies up to 103Hz or more. If the lowpass filter is made wrong then it could produce the 80Hz that is shown on your 'scope. 80Hz is a "boom", a heartbeat is a "THUMP thump".
Except for the things moving around your recordings sound fine.
Ordinary 1/8W or 1/4W resistors with a 5% tolerance and 5% metalized plastic film (not ceramic) for nF capacitors and electrolytic rated at 25V or more for higher value capacitors can be used.
Gary's circuit does not have a preamp since his lowpass filter has a gain of 1. The resistor that prevents destruction of your headphones and hearing reduce the output level a lot.
AG,Your latest output from the TL072 shows narrow pulses instead of normal wide low frequency heartbeats. It has a continuous 10Hz? (I can't see the 'scope timebase setting) fibrillation. The 'scope output from the LM386 has no heartbeats but instead has a continuous low frequency signal. The second recording sounds good.
I simulated my preamp and lowpass filter and they produce an excellent low frequency output. They show an expected gain and an expected cut of frequencies above 103Hz.
Your new mic has 3 wires so it has the Linkwitz modification for high sound levels.
Hey AG,Maybe it is your 'scope that is cutting low frequencies because they sound good. The scope output of the LM386 does not show heartbeat pulses and does not even show the high amplitude narrow pulses from the TL072 and I do not know why.
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