Fumiyasu Konno

Volume and tone control circuit for acoustic reproduction sets

The invention is a volume and tone control circuit for audio sets which will not distort a signal when the volume is adjusted to maximum regardless of the tone. The circuit has a volume control in the form of a variable resistor with an intermediate fixed terminal, one end connected to an input terminal, the other end grounded, and a movable contact connected to an output terminal; an attenuation circuit connected to said input terminal; and, a tone control circuit connected between the output of said attenuation circuit and the intermediate fixed terminal. The degree of attenuation of the attenuation circuit is set so that the maximum gain of the attenuation circuit and the tone control circuit does not exceed 1. The position of the intermediate fixed terminal is determined so that amplitude-versus-frequency characteristics of the output signal become flat when the movable contact of volume control is set to maximum. The circuit will not distort a signal even at maximum volume, maintaining maximum gain of low and high pitched sounds.