EDN

Distortion pedal circuit features low power and soft clipping

Read the first article in this series: Pedal effect circuit design: Getting started. Low-power, tube-like pedal effects can now be yours with a simple JFET circuit. The LSK489, in a common-source ...
MusicRadar

“I’ve always loved this kind of hard-clipping circuit as it’s really responsive to playing dynamics”: Great Eastern FX finds stash of super-rare NOS germanium diodes ...

Take three rare Soviet-era germanium diodes, add a band-pass filter, and there you have it, the recipe for a limited edition hard-clipping distortion like no other, the Distortion Filter D312A When ...
Electronics Weekly

10W stereo Class-D audio amplifier has anti-clipping and spectrum-spreading

Diodes has introduced a 10+10W stereo Class-D audio amplifier with an anti-clipping circuit to avoid distortion at high volume settings and output spectrum-spreading to improve EMC. Called PAM8106, ...
EDN

Implement a clip-detection circuit for BTL Class D amplifiers

Clip detection is a convenient feature in Class AB amplifiers. It produces a signal from a clip-detection pin that drives an automatic volume control, which reduces gain compression and distortion ...
Electronic Design

Avoid Clipping in Emitter Follower with AC-Coupled Resistive Load

An engineer asked me for help when he encountered what appeared to be strange phenomenon while testing a prototype circuit in the system. He saw “mysterious” clipping distortion of the signal at the ...