On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:03:58PM +1000, Roman Black wrote:
> Byron A Jeff wrote:
> >
> > I'm interested in sound generation right at the moment. The specific task is
> > building a metronome that has a decent sounding, high volume "TOCK" sound.
> > But I figure since there are quite a few issues in terms of generating audio,
>
> > 5) And finally the metronome question: Any pointers on how to generate a
> > quality TOCK sound?
>
>
> Ever attached a 555 timer with a square wave
> output to a speaker?? You get a real good tock
> sound. :o)

I took 2 minutes to test dumping a cap into a small speaker. I wasn't real
impressed.

>
> If you output a single square wave pulse, driven
> by one transistor, to the speaker through a 0.1uF
> capacitor you will get a decent loud tock. Then you
> can simply adjust the length of the pulse and this
> will adjust the volume of the tock, over a pretty
> good range too if I remember right.

I'll test it.

Thanks,

BAJ

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