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Phase Inverter question

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I have a vox style amp that has 220k's instead of 1M's in the phase inverter. Would this be to lower the gain going into the PI? What effect would this have on the amp?

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If you do down with R then C is scaled to match the old response. You can drive it harder with higher R, but it's noisyish.

Do you like the sound of it as is?

I tink I know the math on this one. They scale away from each other in orders of magnitude. <rather!>

If you half the R you double the C.
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You could lower the 1k2 for more gank too.
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randalp3000 wrote:I have a vox style amp that has 220k's instead of 1M's in the phase inverter. Would this be to lower the gain going into the PI? What effect would this have on the amp?

thanks
rp
Reduces hiss/noise. Feel free to replace them with 470k or 1M if you want.
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