Comments on: A DIY Broadcast Limiter Project circa 1955

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 23:56:44 +0000

– that’s incredible!

Does it still work?

By: chris

chris — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 13:05:44 +0000

Hi doug. I had not seen the SA39 schematic when I originally posted this, but you are certainly correct – this unit does bear more resemblance to it. Do you have a sense of why the SA39 is so much more complex than the altecs or sta levels (or AM864), when the topology and control interface are so similar? Is it faster somehow, less distorted, greater reduction range? Just curious to know, because it’s not entirely clear to me what the advantage of the add’l complexity is – they seem so similar in underlying principle.

By: Doug Williams

Doug Williams — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 05:18:01 +0000

Most closely resembles the WE 1126 and Altec 322, not too far from the Gates SA-39.

By: Chuck Emer

Chuck Emer — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:55:27 +0000

I was lucky enough to have made friends with Herb. He was a genius. I have never been able to say that about anyone else I’ve ever known. He was cleaning out a bunch of old stuff and I offered to help him. He asked me if I wanted this old piece of gear he had built back in the fifties along with a bunch of other parts and gear he had bought or built. I’m lucky enough to own that exact piece of equipment picture in this article.