strange artifact when recording 4069 kick

zappitron

Hi everybody. I've been using this forum as my guide into the world of cmos synths for a year now. And it's been awesome. I build some stuff, got a lot further then I expected with no training what so ever cause most questions I have you all already answered.

But.. I ran into a problem with recording some of the sounds that I can't find an answer to because I don't know the question really.. other then, what is happening?! Embarassed

I made the kick drum from Hackadays Logic Noise series (sure everyone here knows it) it uses the 4069 chip. And I love it, played around with it, added some more voices and now want to record a drum track. On my headphones everything sounds perfect. But when I listen back to the recording there are these artifacts and I can't get rid of them. I tried adjusting the levels, tried running it directly into my four track (Korg D4) . Through a behringer mx400 or trough a tascam 424 and it is always there.

I'm sure I'm missing something but I can't figure it out. So I'm posting a clip and hope you can help me with it. Thanks

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blue hell · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2018 3:37 pm Post subject:

to the forums.

Not sure how it is supposed to sound .. it seems to be too clicky at the start maybe?

Anyway .. a schematic would be useful.

Steveg · Joined: Apr 23, 2015 Posts: 184 Location: Perth, Australia

Hi and welcome zappitron.
I not hearing anything unusual from your track. It sounds like a logic noise "drum". Perhaps your headphones are altering the sound? The most likely thing is that they are acting as a low pass filter ... either they have a bass boost or the headphone coils are filtering high frequencies?
Try adding some simple low pass filtering to the output and see if that reproduces what you hear in your headphones.

zappitron · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2018 4:53 pm Post subject:

Hey, thanks for the replies guys!

Exactly this is the pickle, I know how it sounds from when I'm listening while tracking. But there is no way to let you hear that cause when I play it back I have this, sort of 'smacking' sound.. It's the sound that comes in after a few seconds. I only know it from low quality mp3's, they used to have the same. Some sort of digital distortion or clipping? But it's not constant either.

It's the strangest thing, it's not there until after the drum has been recorded..

this is the schematic only I didn't use the 40106 part, instead it gets a gate from a 4015

https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/drums-sch.png?w=800&h=395

Your help is much appreciated!

Grumble · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 1:01 am Post subject:

zappitron · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 1:58 am Post subject:

Man! I cant believe I missed that Embarassed

Ha, thanks Grumble! I will get cracking then and ad that cap.

Thanks for the link as well, I need to read up on that. Try to get a better grasp of things Smile

zappitron · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 4:01 am Post subject:

Hmm.. that didn't do it. The kick does sound a lot nicer now Smile

But it's still there.. I made a new clip and looked in audacity and the beats that have it do look a bit mangled. You can hear it really clear on headphones. It comes in after a few beats.

Sorry if I'm boring everyone to tears with this but I just want to understand what is happening and hopefully learn something

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zappitron · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 11:48 am Post subject:

I went over the circuit today and drew out exactly what I've done. Just to be safe. So it is 2 voices, a kick and a woodblock, both on one 4069. There is a lot of bleed, every gate triggers the woodblock even if it's from the kick in, I don't really know why but I like the patterns I can get running it with the 4015. It gives the rhythm a bit of a push or swing.

One day I would like to know why and maybe build a clean one but for now I just want to record some tunes Confused

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blue hell · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 2:07 pm Post subject:

Grumble · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 2:16 pm Post subject:

Also you could place two caps from pin 3 and 11 of the 4069 to ground (10nF)

zappitron · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 4:07 pm Post subject:

Hey, I should've mentioned that I did all that, straight out of the Lunetta for noobs guide Smile

So 100k from unused inputs to ground, a 0.1uf decoupling cap for the chip and a 100uf capacitor for the circuit between + and ground. I'm powering things with 5v. 9v coming in trough a wall wart and then with a L7805 voltage regulator down to 5v.

I placed that extra cap between pin 3 and ground but not yet between 11 and ground, I'll try that tomorrow. I'm gonna let it rest for now, I'm starting to hear the thing even when it's not playing Laughing

Thanks a lot for the help!

blue hell · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 4:18 pm Post subject:

Okay then its not what I thought it to be ... the word "exact" made me confused a bit Laughing

Could you record it on something "not a computer" to see how that works out? (prolly being too old-fashioned there .. but I do have stuff like cassette recorders Shocked

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And what Grumble said of course Smile

zappitron · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:01 am Post subject:

Alright! I have a clean signal Very Happy

Still a bit strange but good strange now.

What Blue Hell said made me think, I actually had not recorded it straight into to computer. But into my 4 track (digital, but well over 10 years old) cause I have no decent interface (cause none of them work under Linux) except for a 30euro Behringer U-control. So I tried that just now et voila! Beautiful waves Smile

I think it has something to do with the sample rate.

Next I'll try recording to tape (I too still keep a couple of tascams around Wink

to give it some crunch

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IGR · Joined: Aug 31, 2014 Posts: 19 Location: Brno

I guess you have a too long trigger pulse going from shift reg. Just try hook up a monostable with time constant about 5ms, positive near pulse. The size of the capacitor at the drum input is either small, you get one positive spike althought low energized and negative spike at end of pulse remains negligible. Or, the capacitor is big enough, the spike at the rising edge has enough energy,but the negative is audibly present and affects the sound.Similarly as yours samples, sounds the twinT circuit when it is directly connected to 4017. Better solution is to connect AND gate with one input clocked with short (5ms)sync pulses.
Good luck.http://electro-music.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif

zappitron · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 1:39 am Post subject:

Thanks IGR. I have to admit that some of the things you mention are a bit too complicated for me but I have had trouble with that 4015 of mine. It gives me a gate out and Ive been trying to turn those gates into trigger pulses mostly in an effort to get it to multi trigger (like 3 times in a row for example) without much luck so far. I didnt realize this could also be the cause of the twin-t's strange behavior.

Last thing I tried was this little circuit which gives me a trigger pulse but still no multi trigger. I have no idea how many ms the triggers are though.

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blue hell · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 5:26 am Post subject:

PHOBoS · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 8:10 am Post subject:

looking at the handdrawn schematic, there should be a pulldown resistor after the diode before the 0.1uF capacitor. (on both voices of course)
That might help with triggering.