In an active equalizer for selectively boosting or attenuating predetermined frequencies of audio or other electrical signals, and which comprises an inverting amplifier having an inverting input which receives the input signal through an input resistance and an output connected with the inverting input through a feedback resistance and at which the equalized output is derived, and an active filter for determining the frequencies to be boosted or attenuated; there is further provided a change-over switch having a boosting position in which the input signal is applied to the active filter, an attenuating position in which the output of the inverting filter is applied to the active filter and a neutral position, and a potentiometer connected between the output of the active filter and the inverting input of the inverting amplifier and being operable in concert with the change-over switch for determining the extent to which the frequencies determined by the active filter are boosted or attenuated.
An equalizer circuit is disclosed having adjustable bandpass filters connected with operational amplifiers in feedforward and feedback paths so as to form frequency selective boost and cut signal components, which are then combined to form the equalized output signal by a subtractive operation with a direct unfiltered signal path arranged in parallel with the filtered feedforward and feedback paths. The circuit exhibits a constant-Q operation in that it can be adjusted for selected frequency boost and cut without distortion of the component bandwidths of the individual filters.
