From: Richard Atkinson (rga24_at_cantab.net)
Date: 2008-09-24 01:06:55
I put up some information about the mod online:
http://rga24.blogspot.com/2008/09/vic-20-audio-modification.html
On Aug 6 2008, Richard Atkinson wrote:
>Hello,
>
> I was listening to some VIC-20 demos and it occurred to me that the VIC
> sound output always sounds rather muffled, as if a treble tone control
> had been turned down. So I had a look at the schematics of the new and
> old VICs, and found that both have a 1.6kHz low pass filter (single stage
> RC network, 6dB/octave) in the audio output stage. On the old VIC
> (324001) it is R16 (1K) and C20 (100nF) and on the new VIC (251027) it is
> R8 (also 1K) and C10 (also 100nF).
>
> So I tried replacing C10 on a new VIC with a 10nF capacitor, to bring the
> cutoff frequency of the filter up to 16kHz, and the result was
> substantially brighter sound. The effect is most noticeable on demos such
> as pwp's Robotic Liberation, where the new waveforms (viznut waveforms)
> have a lot of high frequency content.
>
> What's also interesting as an aside is that on the new VIC (the cost
> reduced model) there is an external audio input from pin 2 of the
> cartridge port, connected via another 1K resistor R40, which is not
> present on the old VIC.
>
>Richard
>
>
>
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