On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:18:31 GMT, james wrote
in :

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:46:44 -0800, Frank Gilliland
wrote:

+++On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:45:51 -0500, "Jimmie D"
wrote in
:
+++
+++
+++"Frank Gilliland" wrote in message
+++news:e4dqq25cuemg3b3ggkvsu8rp3unia7asbr@4ax. com...
+++ On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:21:55 GMT, james wrote
+++ in :
+++
+++ snip
+++A clipper with some form of agc is eesentially a clipper/compressor
+++combination. Another best unto itself.
+++
+++
+++ Which brings us right back to what I had suggested very early in this
+++ discussion: Take Brian's hack-job and follow it with an RF-type
+++ clipper. The two could probably be combined but I suspect alignment
+++ would be a whore.
+++
+++
+++
+++Well the idea is good but the method of doing it is a little overdone if you
+++use Brians compressor.
+++
+++
+++True. And I try to avoid using ASIC's whenever possible.
+++
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Asics have their place when space is a premium. Costwise, discretes
can be cheaper. Also more simpler. Sometimes simpler is better.


That's the excuse Brian used for not including a regulated bias
circuit in his previous amps. He eventually took my advice (not
publically, of course) and hacked a bias circuit from a link I posted.
That's why he won't post the schematic for his current squack-box.