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SOMEN GHOSH bandwidth product greater than 3 plifier. Proper quality factor (Q) needs
MHz. The NE5532 or LM833 used in to be selected to avoid overlap in ad-
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his equaliser uses low-cost this circuit meets these requirements. jacent bands as this introduces
op-amps. Good-quality op- Equaliser circuits typically divide colouration into the audio signal.
amps powered by a single volt- the audio spectrum into separate fre- We have used the multiple-feed-
age supply are readily available in the quency bands and have independent back bandpass filter topology shown
market. The op-amp should have a gain control for each band. The out- in left-most corner at the bottom of the
noise density of less than 24nV/√Hz, put of each band is mixed at IC4(A) figure. This is a circuit for single-chan-
slew rate of more than 5V/µs and gain- and then fed to an audio power am- nel bandpass filter. If the capacitors are