Saturday, August 1, 2009

Bass Booster Circuit

Categories: Booster Circuits

Increase the bass output of your present instrument at modest cost!

Bass Boost is today's sound... whether it's the driving, gut-vibration pulsation of disco, or the solid bass line

of soft, hard, or laid-back rock. One way to get the modern bass-boost sound without running out and

buying an all-new expensive piece of equipment is to use a Bass Booster between your guitar, electronic

organ or what-have-you, and the instrument amplifier. A bass booster strips the highs from the instrument's

output signal and amplifies low frequencies, feeding on "all-bass" sound to the instrument amplifier.

Naturally, the bigger the speaker used with the amp, the more powerful the bass: use 15-inchers with the

Bass Booster and you can rattle the windows. Bass Booster is powered by an ordinary 9 volt transistor radio

battery. It can be assembled on a small printed board or on a veroboard using point to point wiring. The

booster connects between your instrument and its amplifier through two standard RCA Jacks.

Circuit diagram:

Bass Booster Circuit Diagram

Parts:

P1 = 50K

P2 = 100K

R1 = 22K

R2 = 470K

R3 = 47K

R4 = 10K

R5 = 470R

R6 = 1K

Q1 = 2N2222

C1 = 2.2uF-25v

C2 = 100nF-63v

C31 = 00nF-63V

C4 = 3.3uF-25v

C5 = 470uF-25v

D1 = 5mm. Red Led

Q1 = 2N2222

B1 = 9v Battery

J1 = RCA Audio Input Socket

J2 = RCA Audio Output Socket

S1 = On-Off Switch

Using Bass Booster:

Connect your electronic guitar or other electronic instrument to input jack J1; Connect output jack J2 to your

instruments amplifier's normally-used input. With power switch S1 off, key S2 so the instrument feeds

directly to the instrument amplifier. With P2 set full counter-clockwise (Off), turn power switch S1 on, key

S2 once, and advance P2 for the desired Bass Boost level. To cut back to natural sound just stomp down on

S2 and key the Bass Booster out. Don't worry about leaving power switch S1 on for several hours of a gig.

The circuit pulls less than 1mA from the battery, so battery will last many, many months.
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2 comments:
Anonymous said...

i tried mmaking this circui but it never worked ,what could be the reason?.pls attach to me a picture
of the completed and working project.

Izhar Fareed on 28 April, 2010 said...

It works fine, I made this approx 1 year ago and is working fine till now. Please check your
connections.