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Tweaking Sensitivity and Gain

Posted on December 27, 2010 at 7:06am 0 Comments

You seem to be having problems with too much sensitivity and possibly too little gain.

 

TO DECREASE SENSITIVITY AND NOISE, you could switch from three 1M resistors to just one. If the change helps, then you're ahead. If you still have too much sensitivity, you can drop the resistor value down even more, say to 470K or 220K. With magnetic pickups, the concern with dropping the input impedance is loss of high frequencies. With a piezo pickup, we have more highs. Maybe reducing…

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