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Here's another circuit snippet for those who want an analog Marshall 1960A quad box loaded with G12M Celestion "Greenback" speakers driven by a high output impedance tube amplifier simulator.
The design was modeled after simplified impulse response curves for a Marshall 1960A cabinet driven from a solid state amplifier and impulse responses for the G12M Greenback speaker driven from a high output impedance tube amplifier.
On the schematic below the output of the tube amp driven section is the junction of C6 and R6 - C16 is the input coupling capacitor for the Marshall 1960A cabinet response simulator.
The first graph shows the frequency response of the Quad box driven from a typical low impedance flat transistor power amplifier.
The second graph shows the frequency response of the tube amplifier driven raw celestion G12M speaker (red line) and the combined response characteristic for a tube amp driven Marshall 1960A cabinet loaded with Celestion G12M Greenbacks (grey line).
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Here is the first revision and the reason for it :wink: Hopefully it will be the last :wink:
I realised after i posted here that the tube amplifier driven response characteristic applied to a Celestion G12M Greenback in free space - NOT in an actual speaker cabinet :slap:
In free space the Greenback has a natural low end resonance around 75Hz - in the Marshall 1960A sealed cabinet, this resonance is typically raised to around 130Hz due to the enclosed volume of air in the cabinet - the impedance is also raised to a slight degree but this is not as important as the raised frequency when designing a suitable simulation filter.
So, I have modified the tube driven response characteristic to more accurately emulate this raised frequency of resonance - only involved changing two capacitor values in the schematic (C4 and C7)
These are reduced to 220n and 2.2n respectively - all other values remain the same.
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Thank you very much for your hard work and time spent on designing this. I'd love to see a version based on the Celestion Vintage 30. :thumbsup

Keep up the excellent work!

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I'd love to see a version based on the Celestion Vintage 30
I would suspect that it would not be that much different as a basic simulation in a Marshall 1960A box :wink:
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bajaman wrote:
I'd love to see a version based on the Celestion Vintage 30
I would suspect that it would not be that much different as a basic simulation in a Marshall 1960A box :wink:
I'm guessing the odd parts value changes etc? But I look forward to trying this one out.

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I'm guessing the odd parts value changes etc? But I look forward to trying this one out.
I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts and observations when you have built it too! :wink:
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Change R19 from 18k to 27k and change C4 from 220n to 270n for a more Celestion Vintage 30 speaker type response characteristic (resonance slightly lower in frequency) :wink:
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Waiting... rcustoms where are you? :twisted: I need to try this! I love the sound of greenbacks!

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bajaman wrote:Change R19 from 18k to 27k and change C4 from 220n to 270n for a more Celestion Vintage 30 speaker type response characteristic (resonance slightly lower in frequency) :wink:
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Many thanks. Picked up the few bits needed to breadboard this up today so I should up and running in the next few days. Fingers crossed.

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Something like this?
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rcustoms wrote:Something like this?
celestion machine enclosure.pdf
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another puzzle solved
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A quick question; is it possible to use this at the tail end of a overdrive circuit to simulate the a Greenback loaded 4x12 or am I barking up the wrong tree on this one? :?

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sorry Rafael - you were too quick for me. :lol:
It seemed a shame to have one half op amp doing nothing when it could easily provide a nice stable low impedance bias reference.
It also allows the use of larger biasing resistors which further reduces the current draw :wink:
This circuit can either be realised with three dual op amps or one quad and one dual.
many thanks for Rafael's excellent PCB layout - very much appreciated :thumbsup
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A quick question; is it possible to use this at the tail end of a overdrive circuit to simulate the a Greenback loaded 4x12 or am I barking up the wrong tree on this one?
a perfectly good question and yes it can be, BUT the simulator does not include preamplifier and tone control shaping of an actual tube amplifier, merely the interaction of the tube output stage and speaker cabinet responses. :wink:
Please feel free to share your thoughts here when and if you decide to build it :thumbsup
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bajaman wrote:
A quick question; is it possible to use this at the tail end of a overdrive circuit to simulate the a Greenback loaded 4x12 or am I barking up the wrong tree on this one?
a perfectly good question and yes it can be, BUT the simulator does not include preamplifier and tone control shaping of an actual tube amplifier, merely the interaction of the tube output stage and speaker cabinet responses. :wink:
Please feel free to share your thoughts here when and if you decide to build it :thumbsup
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hi steve nice work ,the pcb based on your design is almost ready.
another question ,if we put your cab emulator between a tube pre amp and solid stage power amp ,can simulate the cabin responce?
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bajaman wrote:
A quick question; is it possible to use this at the tail end of a overdrive circuit to simulate the a Greenback loaded 4x12 or am I barking up the wrong tree on this one?
a perfectly good question and yes it can be, BUT the simulator does not include preamplifier and tone control shaping of an actual tube amplifier, merely the interaction of the tube output stage and speaker cabinet responses. :wink:
Please feel free to share your thoughts here when and if you decide to build it :thumbsup
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As I see it, the perfect place for this would be just before a solid-state power amp. My actual test power amp is TDA7294 based and it has a stripped down Boss GE-7 just before the power amp. My initial idea was to be able to dial in a nice-to-my-ears tone from a Hi-Fi loudspeaker. I realize now that the equalization curve matches somewhat the one of Baja's filter. I'm building a practice amp for a friend and I'll compare Baja's filter with the stripped down GE-7. Seeing the way my things progress, though, it may take a while.

I think a good way to use Baja's filter is: amp simulator > cabsim > Baja's filter > solid-state power amp.

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ggedamed wrote:
bajaman wrote:
A quick question; is it possible to use this at the tail end of a overdrive circuit to simulate the a Greenback loaded 4x12 or am I barking up the wrong tree on this one?
a perfectly good question and yes it can be, BUT the simulator does not include preamplifier and tone control shaping of an actual tube amplifier, merely the interaction of the tube output stage and speaker cabinet responses. :wink:
Please feel free to share your thoughts here when and if you decide to build it :thumbsup
cheers
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As I see it, the perfect place for this would be just before a solid-state power amp. My actual test power amp is TDA7294 based and it has a stripped down Boss GE-7 just before the power amp. My initial idea was to be able to dial in a nice-to-my-ears tone from a Hi-Fi loudspeaker. I realize now that the equalization curve matches somewhat the one of Baja's filter. I'm building a practice amp for a friend and I'll compare Baja's filter with the stripped down GE-7. Seeing the way my things progress, though, it may take a while.

I think a good way to use Baja's filter is: amp simulator > cabsim > Baja's filter > solid-state power amp.
hi ggedamed ,i think that in this case,the cabsim and baja filter are only one thing? right steve?
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