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DUBBING MIXER EV7000

PART 1 CONNECTION AND CIRCUIT DESCRIPTION

This sound mixer, designed and marketed as a kit by ELV, allows a

variety of fading, sound dubbing and voice-over effects to be
realized. The voice channel can override the music channel either
automatically (by voice control) or manually. A total of fourteen
controls and two toggle switches bring out all features of this
easy-to-operate unit.

dubbing mixer like the EV7000 is often The d ubbing mixer is best connected be- mixer are connected to the Inputs of the
A used at parties and film or slide pres- tween the preamplifier and the power am-
plifier. The stereo outpur signal supplied by
power amplifier. When a mono preamplifier
is used, its outpur signal is fed to the left
entations, when CI voice channel occasfonally
overrides the(background) music to provide the preamplifier is connected to the phono input channel of the dubbing mixer, while
announcements or comment. A srnooth trau- (RCA-type) input sockets on the rear panel the right Input channel is not used.
sition between the music and the voice chan- of the dubbing mixer. The outputs of the The dubbing mixer has an internal ampli-
uel requires a fader such as theonedescribed
here. To preventdifferentsound qualitieson
the music and the voice-over, the EV7000 has
separate tone controls for each channe!. In
addition, separate volume and balance C011-
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trols are provided.

Operation and controls

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As shown by the above photogreph. all indi- lader
trigger
eators and contral elements of the dubbing
mixer are arranged on the front panel. The
input and output connectors are located on
the rear panel.
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Before it is taken into use, the dubbing
mixer is connected to the power supply and
the available audio equipment. A small peak
mains adapter with an output of 12 V at
about 300 mA is connected to the 3.5-mm
adapter socket on the rear panel. The 'Mir
On' and 'Line on' LEDs on the front panel
light to indicate that the mixer ts on. Fig. 1. Block diagram of the dubbing mixer.

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fier capableof handling Input levels between at maximum level, i.e., the micraphone bass and treble settings are controlled by
about 50 mVrms and 1.7 Vnus, so that vir- channel is off. electronic potentiometers in the TDA 1524A.
tually any (Iine-) signal souree can be COI1- The basic functions are set by the COI1- These potentiometers, in turn, areeontrolled
nected. trols in the right-hand area on the front by externally applied direct voltages. The
The stereo output signal of the dubbing panel. The 'Mic gain' potentiometer volume is set via control input pin 1, the bass
rnixer has Cl. maximum level of about determines the amplifica tion in the level via pin 9, the treble level via pin ]0, and
1.7 Vrms, and can be set to the required vol- microphone channel. lt should be set to the balance via pin ]6. At a supply voltage of
ume within a range of 100 dB. This allows a position at which the microphone stg- 10 V, the rangeof thecontrol voltage isabout
the mixer to drive almost any type of power nal Is loud enough when the 'Mic level' 0.25 V to 4.0 on all these Inputs. The level of
amplifier. contral is in the last one-third of its travel. the supply voltage hardly afleets the set-
The mixer has two parallel-connected The toggJe switch marked 'Mir filter' ti ngs, howcvcr. since the poten tiometers tha t
microphone input sockets: one for a 3.5-mm allows the low side of the frequency set the sound parameters, R27 - R30, are con-
jeck plug and one for a DlN plug. range to be limited to ebout 200 Hz. This nected to the referenee voltage supplied by
The controls on the front panel are aT- mode is particularly suited to the sup- pin 17 of the TDA1524A. Capacitors C28-
ranged into three areas, marked by white pression of floor noises. rumble end C31 serve to suppress contact noises as the
lines. Much of what follows below on the other low-frequency interference. When potentiometers are turned.
basic operation of the mixer 1Sillustrated by the filter is switched off the frequency The two volume contrals that opcratc at
the block diagram in Fig. 1. range starts at about 20 Hz, which makes pin 1 of JC3 form a special conftguration. in
The controls for the rnicruphone channel the microphone ehannel usable even for which diode 012 isan important component.
are located in the top left-hand area on music signals. The control voltage at the wiper of poten-
the front partel. The LEO at the extreme The 'trigger level' contral sets the thre- tiometer R2Sis fed to pin ] of IC3 via R26 and
left indicates the peak microphone level. shold of the previously mentioned vax C28. The positive supply voltage for the
The tone and volume controls are only function. Turning this control clockwise potentiometer is provided by the output of
effective for the mierophone ehannel. results in a higher switching threshold, ICsand potentialdivider RS"I-Rs2.In the 'Iine'
The toggle switch marked 'function' i.e., a higher microphone signal level at mode. R2S is supplied with about 4 V, which
allows three different modes to be se- which the dubbing mixer switches to allows the full volume range to be covered.
lected: voice-over. The 'trigger level' control is, When the microphone is switched on, the
- 'off to disable the microphone chan- however, enabled only when the 'func- potentiometersupply voltage drops to about
nel; tion' switch is set to the 'auto' position. o V, which would normally result in total
- 'on' tc enable the nucrophone chan- The three timing controls in the lower suppression of the mustc signal. Diode 012,
nel; right-hand corner allow the speed of the however. keeps the minimum volume con-
- 'auto' to enable the automatic voice fade-in and fade-out effects to be trol voltage at 0.7 V below the level set with
contral (VaX) function. When selected, changed to requirement. The 'fade-in' R27, the 'background' level control. The
this function provides an au tomatic control has a range of 0 to about 7 sec- operation of the driver circuit areund ICs
fade-in when a certain (preset) micro- onds, independent of the time set with will be reverted to in due course.
phone level is exceeded. The micro- the 'fade-out' control. The 'delay' contral Electrolytic capactror C38 forms a buffer
phone 1S faded out automatically when determines the time between the end of for the internal supply voltage of the
its signal level drops below the preset the voice-over and the starr of the music TDA 1524A, while 09 filters the supply volt-
level. The state of the vax is indicated channel fade-in. The rangeofthiscontral age applied to the circuit.
by the 'Mic on' LED. is 0 to about 5 seconds. Like the vax The outpur signals at pin 11 (left) and 8
The controls for the line channel are level control, the 'delay' control is active (right) of the TDA1524A are fed to the
found in the lower left-hand area on the in the 'auto' mode only. lt is intended summing inputs of inverting amplifiers IC4A
front partel. The four LEOs at the Jeft are mainly to prevent the music channel and IC4B via Cso-Raaand C41-R.34.The summ-
used as level indicators for the two out- being faded in during every short pause ing operation involves the two line signals
pu t ehannels. The 'Pe' (peak) LEDs in the voice channel. (left and rtght) and the microphone signal
should preferably remain off, while the supplied by 10.. Components with values
'OK' LEOs light when the signals are at equal to those used for the line signals take
Circuit description the microphone signal from output pins 8
a sufficiently high leveL The minimum
reeommended signal level is indieated The crueial parts in the circuit diagram in and 11 of Kz to input pins2 and 6 of rC4. The
by the 'OK' LEDs flashing irregularly. Fig. 2 are two audio processor rcs Type two opamps, IC4A and IC4, serve to invert
Like the microphone ehannel, the line TDA1524A. All signal parameters (volurne. and to buffer the stgnals.
channel has separate tone controls and a balance, and tone) are set bycontrol voltages. The leftchannel signal reaches the output
level control. marked 'background'. The The left and right line signals are applied socket, BUs, via theoutputof lC4A, pin 1, and
latter sets the background level of the to sockets BU3 and BU4 respectively and fed R36-C42. Similarly, the right channel signal
music signal while the voice channel is to input pins4 and 150f the TDA1524A GO) arrives at BU2 via pin 7 of IC4 and R21-C25.
actuated. When set fully counter-clock- via coupling capacitors C26 and C27. Since all The microphone signals are treated by
wise, the music is totally suppressed active parts are contained in the TDA1524A, IC2 and potentiometers Rn to R14, in a man-
during the voice-over. onlya handful of external capadtors and re- ner similar to that described for the line am-
The 'Li ne on' LEO indicates the fade-in sistors is required to achieve the signal con- plifier, 10_ Thesupply voltageofthe volume
and fade-out actions. The intensity at ditioning fu.nctions. The bass level is contral potentiometers is provided by pin 7
which the LEO lights is a rough indica- detennined by R.31,C32 and C33 for the left of ICse and potential divider R46-R47. The
non of the background music level dur- channel, and R32, 06 arid C37 for the right two Inputs OfIC2 are driven in parallel by the
Ing the voice-over. When the LEO lights channel. The treble controls require one ca- output of opamp rcrs, I:]

at its full intensity, the music channel is pacitor only: C34 (left) and 05 (right). The (to be continued next month)

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