MR> On 7/19/06, Olin Lathrop wrote: >> Mark Rages wrote: >> >> 1 - There should be a cap to ground from the node between R1 and R2. >> >> Otherwise any supply noise and anything that node picks up is going to >> >> end up on the signal. There should be at least a 100nF ceramic, and >> >> maybe a 10uF electrolytic too. A single 1uF ceramic is probably good >> >> enough. >> > But then it won't cancel supply noise from the mic. >> Right, but then it wasn't doing that before either. >> MR> Why not? Because i didn't know how to make it. After two days of having the op-amp in my head and google in front of my eyes i think a bandpass filter is the answer. I re-made the schematics and a new eagle library containing TL072 since i could not find it in the official suite nor on the cadsoft site. http://electronica.asm.ro/electret/scope.html After removing the 10nF compensating caps and putting 100pF ones instead the circuit works very well and the gain can be seen. Now i have that mic-noise problem :) I was thinking about a RC low-pass filter at the end of the third stage to cut off everything above 3KHz. A resistor in series with the output of the last op-amp and then a capacitor tied to the ground. Taking 1nF capacitor the resistor should be of about 55K after computing using R = 1/(2*PI*C*F) Can this be the answer ? -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist