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Reproducing apparatus including means for gradually varying a mixing ratio of first and second channel signal in accordance with a voice signal

US5033036A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 23, 1990
Grant dateJul 16, 1991
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Expiry dateJan 23, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09B15/00
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A reproducing apparatus mixes the voice information from a microphone and the information reproduced from a recording medium in which a vocal signal plus an instrumental signal is contained as a first signal in a first channel and only an instrumental signal is contained as a second signal in a second channel. A first mixing circuit mixes the first signal and the second signal. The output of the first mixing circuit is mixed by a second mixing circuit with the voice information from the microphone. A control circuit or audio detecting circuit provides a control signal in accordance with the level of the voice information from the microphone. The control signal controls a selection control circuit to gradually and smoothly vary the mixing ratio of the first signal and the second signal when mixing these two signals.

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