Easy Passive Circuits

To Adason,
You did not specify the circuit you tried. Sorry it did not work out. But these circuits are for high-Z guitar signals, not headphones.
Anyway, I am posting more volume and tone controls. The 2-band control you noted is among them (labeled "2-Band Tone-Control 2 w. Volume").
What do you mean i did not specify the circuit i tried. I posted circuit schematics in post #6 and #16.

I do not intend to use passive circuit right before the headphones. I intend to use passive circuit before headphone amplifier. I wrote this already.

We do not seems to understand each other, not sure i should post here anymore. Just last post.
 
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Partial success with loudness from yamaha. Well, its not exactly centered where i want, but i used 20k linear pot, because i did not have lin 10k.
First i measured with right mark audio software without readjusting the level, but as passive loudness works, it decreases midrange, so eventually right mark failed as 1kHz tone it uses for calibration was too low.
Remeasured with readjusting volume similar at 1kHz.
 

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Well, i did the circuit i posted and its total bust. The way its drawn treble does not even work, the output has to come from the wiper of second pot. Plus both controls work only in the negative, so not for me.
It will work, if output load is high impedance - 1 Mohm preferably. Input impedance of (phone) amplifiers usually are much lower.
Of course tone controls work only in negative - it is passive circuit.
 
I still have not found dual linear 10k pot. Will have to order it.
However, while i searched through bags and boxes of parts, i found sliding volume pots of 22k and 47k with three, yes, three taps!
This should make seriously good approximation to loudness contour.
Anybody got values for such volume with three taps?
 
Post 18: this is a lovely circuit - Philips ?

No. L. V. Viddeleer worked for the PTT, the then Dutch post, telegraph and telephone office. As far as I know, this tone control was just a hobby circuit of his. It's off topic because it isn't passive, but it has the control characteristics adason prefers, which is why I posted it anyway.
 
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